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says that whilo in his hands slio was never vicious and n ) kicker, 

 but only wild, timid and subject to nervous excitement. 



In 18G8 Doble began a successful season with the Utile niar<^ 

 She won eight times, one of the best races, u[)()n the whole, be- 

 ing that at BuflTalo, in wdiich she trotted in 2m. 24 ]s., 2m. 24 J., in 

 successive heats, and beat Rhode Island, Silas Rich, American Girl, 

 Clara and Panic. But she did better than that at Boston in the 

 fall, for she beat George Palmer, George Wilkes and Draco in four 

 heats. Palmer won the first in 2m. 21^s., Goldsmith Maid took 

 the other three, 2m. 23s., 2m. 21^s., 2m. 27s. That year she 

 turned the tables on her old friend General Butler, beating him 

 in three straight heats at Waverly ; and in three straight 

 heats she defeated American Girl and George Wilkes at Phila- 

 delphia. That season, during the famous race to wagons on 

 the Union Course, in which George Wilkes beat Lady Thorn, 

 Mr. Goldsmith took me on one side for the purpose of a 

 brief consultation. lie said he had an offer for the purchase of 

 his mare from Messrs. Doble and Jackman, and remarked, in 

 substance, as follows : " Dexter has retired, and here are these 

 three mares all about upon an even platform. Some of these days 

 one of t!ie three. Lady Thorn, American Girl or Goldsmith Maid 

 will cut loose, so as to gain the place he has vacated and become 

 very valuable. It is a question whether I ought to sell." 



I replied to the effect, that he had a valuable farm, a great stock 

 of fine horses, and an accomplished and amiable family, conse- 

 quently, it was not to be expected that he should leave his home 

 and other affairs to travel fiir and wide with the mare ; but that 

 if he sold her it should be for a large price, not less than $20,000. 

 lie replied by saying that he had not made up his mind as to 

 whether he woula sell or not, but was determined not to take less 

 than the price I had mentioned. She was finally sold to Doble 

 and Jackman, anl went into winter quarters at Bristol, Pennsyl- 

 vania. In the spring of 1869, she was trained o.i the Suffolk 

 Park Course, Philadelphia. She began that season so badly, tha' 



