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1866 slie trotted eight races, winning all but one, and in 1867, five 

 races, losing two, once to Dexter and once to Crazy Jane. In 1868 

 she won eight times, and reduced her record to 2 ui. 22'} s. In the 

 fall of this year she was sold to Messrs. Doble & Jackman, and 

 henceforth Budd Doble handled the reins over her. She began 

 the season of 1869 badly by losing five times to American Girl, 

 a very powerful big bay mare by a son of Cassius M. Clay, out 

 of a Virginia mare of unknown pedigree, who was trotting very 

 strongly that year, and gave promise of taking up the sceptre 

 which Dexter had voluntarily laid down. She beat Lucy at 

 Boston, and trotted in 2 m. 20} s. She beat George Palmer 

 on the Fashion Course. She met American Girl at Suflblk 

 Park, Philadelphia, and beat her in three straight heats, all 

 better than 2 m. 20 s. That was the first time any horse beat 

 2 m. 20 s. in all the heats of a race. Goldsmith Maid won eight 

 races that year, and beat all those that had beaten her, save Lady 

 Thorne, who was then ' in her prime, and who won five races from 

 her. In 1S70 Goldsmith Maid won eleven times. She did not 

 beat 2 m. 20 s. that year, but she trotted in 2 m. 24} s. to wagon. 

 In 1871 Goldsmith Maid continued her brilliant career. At Fleet- 

 wood Park, Baltimore, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Boston and 

 Buffalo she beat all her competitors, including American Girl and 

 Lucy. At the latter place she again won all the heats in better 

 than 2 m. 20 s. Here she failed in an effort to beat Dexter's 

 time — 2 m. 17t s., for an extra purse. But she soon after trotted 

 in 2 m. 17 s. at Milwaukee, and Dexter's brilliant record was at 

 last eclipsed. Goldsmith Maid continued on the great Western 

 route, and reached as flir as Omaha and Council Bluffs, away up 

 the Missouri Eiver. In 1872, after one trot at Philadelphia, the 

 little mare went to Boston, and trotted on the Mystic Course in 

 2 m. 16| s. Afterwards, at Prospect Park, she put in all the heats 

 in better than 2 m. 20 s. ; and at Cleveland she did it for the fourth 

 time. The little mare was now taken across the continent, and at 

 Sacramento, in a little more than a month after her last previous 

 race on this side of the Rocky Mountains, she trotted in 2 m. 17 1 s. 

 She afterwards trotted at San Francisco, and returning to Sacra- 

 mento, beat Occident very easily. In 1873 she did not trot any 

 especially fast heat. In 187-4 Goldsmith Maid trotted seventeen 

 times, with increase of speed, and did not lose a single race. 

 At Saginaw, JMichigan, she went in 2 m. 16 s. At Springfield, 

 Mass., she again made 2 m. 16 s., and all the heats were better 

 than 2 m. 20 s. Three times that year she beat 2 m. 20 s. in all 

 the heats. At Rochester she trotted a second heat in 2 m. 14| s. 

 And at Mystic Park, Boston, September 14, for a special purse, 

 in which she was required to beat her Rochester time, she trotted 

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