172 crcLOPEDiA OF isrm wtocm. ajto oomplbte stock doctor. 



with sons making records in from 2 : 23 to 2 : 27|. Pacing Abdallah, the 

 getter ot excellent roadsters, was another of his sons, as was Belmont, the 

 sire of horses going the mile in 2 : 23 ^to 2 : 30. Again, there is Thern- 

 dale, a compact and muscular stallion, greatly celebrated, not only for his 

 own great speed, but for the excellent trotting qualities of his offspring. In 

 1876, after serving eight years m the stud, he made five mile heats in 2 : 22f ; 

 2 : 22J : 2 : 32^ ; 2 : 20 ; 2 : 25. Another remarkable son of Alexander's 

 Abdallah, is Almont. His offspring ai-e yet young to the track, but Pied- 

 mont, at four years old, trotted in 2 : 30^. 



V. What Groldsmith Maid Was Like. 



The likeness of Goldsmith Maid shows her appearance, when in trot- 

 tmg condition, and will be studied with interest as an accurate view of 

 the proportions of this most famous and one of the best bred of the Queens 

 of the trotting course. She was fifteen hands and onemch in height, and 

 seems rather delicately made m a superficial examination of her form. 

 Yet the quality of her make-up is in every respect superb. 



An accurate and capable writer says of her: "Her head and neck are 

 very clean and blood-like ; her shoulder sloping and well placed ; middle 

 piece tolerably deep at the girth, but so light at the waist as to give her a 

 tucked-up appearance, and one would say a lack of constitution, but for 

 the abundant evidence to the contrary ; loin ani coupling good ; quarters 

 of the greyhound order — broad and sinewy ; her limbs are clean, fine- 

 boned and wiry ; feet rather small, but of good quality. She is high 

 mettled and takes an abundance of work without flinching. In her high- 

 est trotting form, drawn to an edge, she is almost deer-like in appear- 

 ance, and when scoring for a start and alive to the emergencies of the 

 race, with her great flashing eye and dilated nostril, she is a perfect pic- 

 ture of animation and living beauty. Her gait is long, bold and sweep- 

 ing, and she is, in the hands of a driver acquainted with her peculiarities, 

 a perfect piece of machinery. She seldom makes an out-and-out break, 

 but frequently makes a skip, and has been accused of losing nothing in 

 either case. Aside from the distinction of having trotted the fastest mile 

 on record, she also enjoys the honor of making the fastest three consecu- 

 tive heats ever won In a race, which renders any comments upon her 

 staying qualities unnecessary." 



The tmie of Goldsmith Maid has been beaten several times since 1877, 

 but this detracts nothing from her wonderful performance. She con- 

 tinued on the turf until past twenty years old, and after completing that 

 age she closed her public career with the year 1877 by trotting, during that 

 year, forty-one heats in 2 : 30 or better, and making a time record of 



