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in 2 m. 14 s. In 1875 she trotted only six races, and was beaten 

 once by Lula, who had trotted a mile in 2 ni. 15 s. at Buffalo the 

 week previous, at Eochcster, but beat her at Utica the following 

 week. Lula is a very celebrated bay mare, foaled in 18C-4. Her 

 sire was Alexander's Norman and her dam was a daughter of the 

 thoroughbred horse, imported Ilooten. Her speed and endurance 

 are simply wonderful, but she is very high strung and excitable, and 

 though that most brilliant and patient horseman Charley Green 

 handled the reins over her, her disposition is so peculiar that she 

 never afterwards was able to surpass or even equal the glory she 

 obtained by her victory over Groldsmith Maid. In 1876 Gold- 

 smith Maid trotted seven races, losing but that memorable race at 

 Cleveland, described elsewhere. Besides this she trotted against 

 her own record seven times, and though flailing to reduce it, she 

 trotted at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, June 23, in 2 m. 14 s. In 

 1877 she trotted several races in California, against Earns and 

 others, and at Chico, Cal., May 19, over a rough track, she 

 defeated Ptarus, in 2 m. 19^- s., 2 m. 14^ s., and 2 m. 17 s. She 

 was entered in the Grand Circuit in trials for speed, and at 

 the close of the season was retired to the Fashion Stock Farm, at 

 Trenton, N. J., where she now roams the extensive paddock, hale 

 and hearty, with a fine colt by General Washington, the son of 

 General Knox and Lady Thorne, at her side. "With such a royal 

 breeding, the youngster should prove a prodigy of speed, and 

 a treasure to the breeding interests of the country. During 

 her career Goldsmith Maid travelled on the cars over 130,000 

 miles, and earned for her owners over $325,000 in stakes and 

 purses. 



The year 1875 is a notable one in the annals of the trotting turf. 

 The combined series of trotting meetings which was inaugurated 

 in 18G6 by the trotting associations of Cleveland and Ptochester, 

 at which meetings the purses given amounted to $15,050, had in- 

 creased in number and importance, until it extended from the 

 shores of Lake Erie almost to the Atlantic Ocean, and now em- 

 braced the associations of Cleveland, Buffalo, Piochcster, Utica, 

 Poughkeepsie, Hartford, and Springfield, and the purses offered at 

 these meetings aggregated the enormous sum of $245,000. Among 

 the horses whose fleet hoofs trod these tracks that season were 

 Goldsmith Mnid, American Girl, Lula, Smuggler, Hopeful, Rarus, 

 Lucille Golddust, Judge Fullerton, Great Eastern, Lady IMaud, 

 Nettie, St. Julien, Huntress, John IL, Cozette, Sensation, Bodine, 

 May Queen, Scotland, Grafton, Kansas Chief, Belle Brassficld, 

 ]\Iazo-Manie, Bella, Joker, liittle Fred, Clementine, Music, Amy, 

 Mollie Morris, and Thomas Jefferson. No more brilliant collec- 

 tion of trotters ever gathered together in any one season. There 



