43G APPEl^DIX. 



former drew her at Poughkeepsie, and thus got the pools ai i 

 bets off. Goldsmith Maid won the race in three heats, the best 

 2m. 31s. She next won at Goshen, and then beat the famous Old 

 Man's Mare at New City, Rockland county. From thence to 

 Copack, where she met General Butler and Cora. After scoring 

 twenty-two times, all by reason of Butler and the black mare, 

 they were sent away, Goldsmith Maid two lengths behind the 

 gelding. The little bay mare gradually closed with him so that 

 she was at his wheel when he turned into the stretch. A des- 

 perate struggle ensued. Neither of them were then steady trot- 

 ters, and they could both catch after a running jump or two, and 

 trot as fast as anybody's horse. The " Contraband " could prolr 

 ably go as fast as she could when he landed from one of his 

 breaks, and he beat her out by a neck in 2m. 23 Js. The time was 

 not of record, for the track was a little short, but it was long 

 enoufh to show vast improvement in the little mare. That was 

 her last appearance in 1866. Next season, being then ten years 

 old, she first trotted at Middletown against Dexter, who beat her 

 in three heats. She had great speed in the race, but not condi- 

 tion to maintain the pace which the nonpareil of trotters set from 

 end to end. That incomparable horse had won twenty-five races 

 right off the reel the year before, and had several times nearly ap- 

 proached Flora Temple's lime in harness, while he had gone in 

 2m. ISs., under saddle ; had beaten Stonewall Jackson three- 

 mile heats under saddle, and defeated General Butler to wagon 

 two-mile heat in 4m. 5GJs. At Middletown he and the maid be- 

 gan the games in the last season of his trotting, and he broke her 

 heart, as the saying is, in three quarters of a mile, trotted at tho 

 rate of 2m. 20s. He was then nine years old, while she was ten. 

 He h;id never trotted until he was six years old ; she was eight 

 l)ofore she appeared in public, while Lady Thorn was as old be- 

 fore she came out. Now here are facts which ought to be con- 

 sidered by those advocates of training and trotting horses when 

 very young, who seem to me to be ready to sacrifice mature ex- 



