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Dutchman and Lady Suffolk. — Dutchman, Lady Siifiblk, Mount HoDy, 

 and Harry Bluff. — Dutchman and Awful. — Dutchman against Time, 

 Three Miles. — The Race and Incidents. 



IN resuming the history of Dutchman, we begin again 

 at the rlose of the great race of four three-mile heats ; in 

 which he jfon a hard and very stoutly-contested struggle 

 with Rattler, just prior to that horse's voyage to England, 

 where, as I have before remarked, he grej^tly distinguished 

 himself under the care and superintendence of Wm. Whelan. 

 It was not only foand that he was vastly superior to any 

 English-bred trotter, but also to those which had been im- 

 ported into England from this country. Several of these 

 had been horses of fine speed and bottom. It was, however, 

 Tio more than might have been expected, that Rattler 

 should excel them all ; for he was very near indeed to 

 Dutchman when he left this country. It was a very close 

 thing between them; and I have learned, that, after he 

 arrived in the island, the air and strong feed so agreed with 

 him, that he displayed more vigor and bottom than he had 

 done while he was in this country. 



It was now the spring of 1839, and Dutchman had been 

 in my hands a year. We commenced the operations of that 

 memorable season with a trot between Dutchman and 

 Lady Suffolk, oyer the Beacon Course, Kew Jersey, two- 

 mile heats, under saddle. As a matter of course, I rode the 

 old bay horse, and David Bryan rode the gray Lady of 

 Silffolk. Dutchman won it handily in two heats of 5rQ. 9s., 

 6m. lis, That was the beginning of the season, and early 



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