146 THE TEOTTING-HOnSE OF AMERICA: 



a long and eventful coiiaection between us. At the fii 

 of it we did not meet with success ; but I knew, that, if ] 

 kept on, it would be sure to come. He was then ten yea 

 old ; and his first trot in my hands was against Greenwi( 

 Maid, a bay mare, fifteen hands high. 



The race was two-mile heats, in harness, over the Beacc 

 Course, New Jersey ; and the mare won it in two heat 

 tlie best of which was 5m. 16s. Shortly afterwards, Dutd 

 man trotted two-mile heats against Washington over tl 

 same course. Washington was a gray gelding, sixtet 

 hands high, very speedy, but having the peculiarity that 1 

 would go all to pieces if not checked .up close. He all 

 beat Dutchman in two heats ; and the best of them wi 

 5m. 16s., as Greenwich Maid's had been. 



The same year Dutchman went for a purse over the Beacc 

 Course against Lady Suffolk and Eattler, two-mUe heat 

 under saddle. Eattler was a bay gelding, fifteen ham 

 high, a fast and stout horse, though light-waisted, and del 

 cate in appetite and constitution. At that time he wouJ 

 . sometimes only eat six quarts of oats a day ; and the traini 

 was doing uncommonly well when he got nine quarts in 

 him. He was afterwards taken to England, and, take hi: 

 for all in all, was the best American trotter that ever we] 

 there. William Whelan went over with him, but m 

 before we had some desperate struggles between him ar 

 Dutchman. 



Lady Suffolk was a gray mare about fifteen hands and s 

 inch. She was got by Engineer, son of imported Messei 

 ger, and was certainly a tremendous mare, well worthy < 

 her illustrious descent. She was bred on Long Island, i 

 Suffolk County, and thus got the name of Lady Suffol 

 When she was three years old, David Bryan bought her ( 

 the farmer who raised her, for ninety dollars. In the ra( 

 of which I am now writing, Bryan rode Lady Suffolk, Bi 

 Whelan rode Eattler, and I rode Dutchman. We won 

 in two heats, of 6.11-5.13. 



