150 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERIGA. 



for a beginning at that. In the month of May we went . tc 

 Baltimore, to trot three-mile heats, under saddle, with three 

 other horses. There was Lady Suffolk, who was now 

 developed into a regular campaigner, and was a wonderfu] 

 mare ; Mount Holly, a white gelding, fifteen hands high — 

 how related to the Messenger horse of that name, who is 

 among the forefathers of the Black gelding General Butler, 

 I am unable to say ; and Harry Bluff, a bay gelding, 

 fifteen hands three inches high. Dutchman won the race 

 in two heats of 7m. 56s., 7m. 63s. 



On our return home from Baltimore, we had a meeting 

 with Awful, the bay gelding before spoken of as having 

 been matched with Lady Blanche, the daughter of AbdaUah, 

 when six years old, and paid forfeit to her in consequence 

 of lameness ; and, as having afterwards defeated Screwdriver, 

 three-mile heats, in harness, over the Centreville Course. 

 The race between Dutchman and Awful was on the 4th of 

 July, and was three-mile heats, in harness. Dutchman won 

 it, distancing Awful in the first heat, in the then amazing 

 time of 7m. 41s. At the start for this race, the odds were 

 100 to 25 on Awful ; and the result, with the time in which 

 it was achieved, caused a large amount of wonder and dis- 

 cussion. This three miles in harness was then the greatest 

 performance that had ever been made; and it will be 

 found, upon investigation, that it has very seldom been sur- 

 passed since that date, almost twenty-six years ago. Mora 

 Temple was the first that ever beat it ; and, if I am not 

 mistaken, the only others that have done so are General 

 Butler — when he went in harness against Dutchman's 

 saddle-time — and Stonewall Jackson of Hartford, in his 

 three-mile race in 1866 on the Fashion Course against 

 Shark. 



It will be remembered, in estimating the merit and value 

 of this performance, that since it was made, above a quarter 

 of a century has passed away, of an age renowned above all 

 pieceding ones in history for progress ; that all the efforts 



