The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-12

Their, and avoids keeping his horses in an artificial
state moreover, he never throws his stable quite
OUT OF training, and always exercises and runs his
horses with crupper, the want of which has lost
hundreds OF races from the slipping OF the saddle
Peytona is comparatively sluggish mare, and Is
awkward In slow work when extended however,
her action is express and admirable" Her stride
is said to be twenty-seven feet when at the top of
her rate the stride of English Eclipse and Flying
Chiders is represented to have been but tweny-slx
feet, while the average OF our fastest horses, like
Boston, Fashion, and Blue Dick, is short of twenty
three feet In action, Peytona looks really much
larger than when standing quiet; she goes with We
locty and precision; gathers with great apparent
ease to herself, and IN stable comprising three or
four OF the speedles horses IN the Union, can outioo
and outlast them all
rEyToNA's PERFORMANCES.
isi3-oct TO- Nashville Tenn. Won the Great
Peyton Stake for four year ODDS colts 100
lbs. illics o. h.. of Thirty subscribers at
$4,000 each, 81 900 IT, Four mile heats,
beating Col Hampton's Herald Hon. Mr..
Barrow's Skylark colt and Hon. d. Pey
toms Great Western, in s:52-s:50-s-33
The stake realized above. ss5, 900
lsit-Jan. 6. New Orleans Louisiana Course.
Won the Jockey Club Purse still carry
ing 81 lbs. as a 4 yr old, beating Capt. Mi
nors Norma, same age and weight in7:i3
- Jan. 49, Mobile Ala, Bascombe Course
Won tho Jockey Club Purse, Three mile
heats, carrying same weight as before,
beating Major Meyers st. Cloud, yrs Sc
lbs, in 6:c0-55S, course heavy. 900
March 10. Now Orleans, Eclipse Course.
Won the Jockey Club Purse, Three mile
heats, carrying weight before,
beating Col Bingaman's Rufhn, 3 yrs, SO
lbs, and Mr.. Kenners Blue Bonnet, yrs,
SO bs, in 5:50-5.54l, course rather heavy. 600
- Dec. -. New Orleans, Metarie Course.
Won the Post Stake for all ages, of fvo
subs. at $40 each, $500 f. Four milo
heats, beating Blue Dick, in s:09-S:09
course rather heavy. ......... $500
Starting five times, and winning all her
without difficulty, realizing for her owner,
the immense sum Of. $4,000
On the week following his defeat by Peytona, Ruff
fin won race at the same distance, in 5.40t-536 !!
beating Mr.. Porters Berenice and Mr. Cocks Sally
Shannon. Norma, that Peytona beat in 745-7:4S,
subsequently run Anne Hays well up in 7:36i-742 !
Herald, (whom she beat on that occasion, though
he won the I'd heat, she winning the Sd and 4th)
the prominent favorites and six months before
the race the two were backed against the field In
being reserved expressly for the Peyton stake-the
largest one eUer run for anywhere-Peytona threw
away her chance of some pretty pckings in her
three year old form, well the spring of her
four year old year. She has been sngularly unfor-
tunae thus far in the state of the courses over which
she has run, not having had opportunity of show
ing her capabilities for making fast time Yet her
friends have entire confidence in her speed as well
as her bottom her stable companions, almost uni
fomly, have proved 8 too fleet for the fast and too
stout for the strong, yet she can beat them all from
four hundred yards to four mile heats
The following table shows the time of each mile
IN the contest between Fashion and Boston in
1872, and the third column the time of Peytona
at the.Spring Meeting at New Orleans, against Nor
ma-the second heat was in AS