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Harold. He is in resoluteness like his brother Lakeland Abdul- 

 lah. They all have the courage and resoluteness of a bull-dog. 

 The horses were not so fortunate as the mare, Maud S., in com- 

 ing into the hands of such a skillful handler as Mr. Baer, 

 who believes that kindness and gentleness will succeed with 

 high-bred horses where force will fail. He believes that Maud 

 S., who has now a record of 2.10i, can easily lower it to 2.08. 



Horse-will Near to Stubborness. But this perverse- 

 ness of some high-bred animals is only the element which, 

 wisely manipulated, makes them the leaders of their race. It 

 is will-power as well as muscle that sends the winner to the 

 front. The wise horseman is like the wise engineer, who knows 

 the nature of the engine and the steam that gives it power. 

 Wisely manipulated, it works kindly and with unfailing power. 

 Unwisely handled it becomes a reckless tyrant. 



GOLDSMITH MAID is another of the trotting celebrities who 

 was unfortunate in her first drivers and owners. Her sire was 

 a son of Hambletonian. One writer says she was sometimes 

 " entirely unmanageable. When hitched to a wagon she would 

 kick herself loose and run away." She was regarded as so 

 very ungovernable as to be practically useless, and her 

 owner, Mr. J. B. Decker, of Sussex County, New York, ac- 

 cordingly sold her for the sum of three hundred and fifty 

 dollars. In taking the animal home the purchaser was offered 

 four hundred dollars for her, which he accepted. She was 

 soon again sold for six hundred and fifty dollars and a 

 buggy, to Mr. Alden Goldsmith, one of the most sagacious, 

 kind, and patient of horsemen. By his patient kindness, he 

 was rewarded in producing a trotter that won her first race 

 in three heats in 2.26, in 1865. The next year she won nine 

 races, when Dexter took the tenth. In 1868 she won eight 

 times, lowering the record to 2.21 i. The next year she beat 

 American Girl at Philadelphia, in three heats, each one 

 better than 2.20, which was the first record of three suc- 

 cessive heats, each less than 2.20. Mr. Goldsmith saw that 

 check-reins and martingale, and blinders all annoyed her, and 

 he removed them. She is described as "small of stature, long 



