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by imported Messenger ; her dam by Gunpowder. 

 Black Hawk's time with heavy weight is the best 

 on record, up to the time of his death, and estab- 

 lished his claim to be the best Trotting Stallion 

 in America. 



PERFORMANCES OF BLACK HAWK. 



Nov. 7th, 1847, beat Jenny Lind over Union 

 Course ; match $500, mile heats, Black Hawk to 

 a 250 pound wagon, Jenny Lind to a skeleton 

 wagon, weighing about 75 pounds., winning the 

 first and third heats in 2:40 and 2:43 ; Jenny 

 Lind winning the second in 2:38. 



April 5th, 1848, beat Lady Sutton over the 

 Union Course, in a match for $700, with an in- 

 side stake of 500, mile heats, best three in five, 

 to 250 pound wagons ; time 2:43, 2:43, 2:42, 

 2:4 5i 



May 15th, 1848, beat Americus over the Union 

 Course, in a match for $2,000, 3 mile heats, to 

 250 pound wagons ; time, 8:31, 8:36. For further 

 performance, see Turf Register for 1S47 and 

 1848, where will also be seen the challenge of 

 his owner to trot him against any horse in the 

 world, for any amount from $500 to $5,000, 

 which challenge was never accepted. Subse- 

 quently $13,000 was refused for him. 



Honest John, half-brother to Kossuth, has also 

 distinguished himself on the turf as a horse of 

 speed and power with heavy weight. In 1850 

 he started ten times for purses and stakes, and 

 won eight. In 1851 he started eight times, win- 

 ning five. June 22d, 1852. over the Union 

 Course, he beat Black Harry in a match for $1,- 

 200, two mile heats, to wagons ; time, 5:27, 5:28. 

 Nov. 2d, 1855, Sandy Coon, half brother to Kos- 

 suth, in a match for $1,000, two mile heats, to 

 wagons, distanced Lady Hill the first heat; time. 

 5:29. 



Nov. 11th, 185G, Plough Boy, half brother to 

 Kossuth, in a match over the Centreville Course, 

 mile heats, best three in five, beat Fanny Fern ; 

 time, 2:41, 2:41, 2:45. 



Sept. 29th, 1836, Jake Oakley, half-brother to 

 Kossuth, in a match for $1,000, over the Union 

 Course, mile heats, best three in five to wagons, 

 heat Belle of Saratoga. Time, 2:32%, 2:35^, 

 2:38i. 



Jupiter, who received the first premium as the 

 •best stallion for all work, at the Fair of the 

 American Institute, New York, for 1855, and 

 who can trot his mile in 2:40, is also half-brother 

 to Kossuth. 



Nonpari el, to whom was awarded the first 

 rank as the best trotting stallion on exhibition at 

 the National Horse Fair, held on the National 

 Course, on Long Island, in September, 1854, and 

 who has in a trial shown better than 2:30 in har- 

 ness, is half-brother to Kossuth. 



Plato, another half-brother, received the first 

 .premium as the best three year old stallion for 

 ail work at the New York State Fair for 1854. 



June 1st, 1S53, Kemble Jackson, (half-brother 

 to Black Hawk,) trotted over the Union Course 

 against five of the best horses in this country, 

 ■for a stake and purse of $4,000, three mile heats, 

 to 250 pcund wagons, winning in two straight 

 heats, without making a break, in the unparal 



leled time of 8:03, S:04f, and for whom his 

 owner refused $16,000. 



Sept. 21st. 1853, Miller's Damsel, (by Jackson,) 

 in a match, beat Jenny Lind, mile "heats, best 

 three in five, to wagons — wagon and driver 

 weighing 470 pounds. Time, 2:49, 2:46, 2:47. 

 May 17th, 1855, in a match, mile heats, to 

 wagons, distanced John Wands the first heat. 

 Time, 2:36, 



April 21st, 1853, Black Douglass, a grandson 

 of Andrew Jackson, made his first appearance 

 on the turf over Hunting Park Course, in a 

 match with Flora Temple, mile heats, best three 

 in five, in harness and won in three straight 

 heats. Time, 2:35^, 2:30^, 2:35. 



Cassius M. Clay, to whom was awarded the 

 fust premium in Oct. 1853, at the Springfield 

 Massachusetts, National Horse Exhibition, is 

 also a grandson of Andrew Jackson. 



Lantern, the winner of two ten thousand dol- 

 lar matches, is closely related to Kossuth ; so 

 also are the two three year old stallions who re- 

 ceived the first and second premiums at the Na- 

 tional Horse Exhibition, held near Philadelphia, 

 in October, 1836. 



Kossuth having been kept solely as a breeding 

 stallion, has made but one performance on the 

 turf, and that over the Union Course, Long 

 Island, on the 1st of September, 1855, in a match 

 of two mile heats, to harness, against Mr. F. 

 Felton's black horse, Ticonderoga, Kossuth 

 winning with ease in two straight heats, 

 in the last one Ticonderoga barely saving 

 his distance, (160 yards.) Kossuth had made a 

 large season, (serving 84 mares) and been in 

 training only one month, suffering all the while 

 from severe cold, taken on his passage from 

 Richmond to New York, and* was so evidently 

 out of condition, that I was advised to withdraw 

 him, but knowing his endurance, I was deter- 

 mined he should trot, and had the gratification 

 of seeing him not only win, but make a race 

 under the circumstances credible to any horse. 

 A few weeks subsequent to this race, he made a 

 trial to a wagon which, in speed will compare 

 with, if not surpass, that of any trotting stallion 

 in the world. Thus it will be seen that Kossuth 

 is not a chance horse, or one of doubtful pedigree, 

 but that he belongs to a trotting famly, and that 

 one beyond dispute the very best in America, 

 and traces his blood for upwards of half a centu- 

 ry through a line of choice ancestors, all celebra- 

 ted for speed and great endurance, and goes 

 back to some of the purest and Arabian Eng- 

 lish horses. 



Ipg^ Persons wishing to breed from Kossuth 

 would do well to make early application, as he 

 will be limited. 



JE^I!^ Mares sent from a distance will receive 

 every care and attention at my stable at 40 cents 

 per day. H. J. SMITH, 



Near Fairfield Race Course, 



Richmond, Feb., 1858. 



MITCHELL & TYLER, 



DEALERS in 



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 Ware, Military and Fancy Goods. 

 RICHMOND, VA. 



