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xn the spring on the Fashion Course. At Fleetwood Park the 

 games began, and she beat American Girl and George Palmer. 

 At Baltimore she beat American Girl and Lucy. At Prospect 

 Park she defeated the same horses, and at Boston, on the Beacon 

 Course, she beat American Girl, Lucy and George Palmer. At 

 Buffalo Goldsmith Maid beat American Girl and Lucy three 

 Btraight heats in 2m. 19|s, 2m. 19|^s, 2m. 19s. Thus again going 

 below 2ra. 20s. in all the heats, and beating the best aggregate 

 heats of herself and Lady Thorn by one second. The owner of 

 Goldsmith Maid and her trainer had for some time entertained 

 the belief that she would beat 2m. 17|^s., the best time in harness, 

 made by Dexter, at Buffalo, four years before, and at a time Avhen 

 the course was longer and much slower than at the time of this 

 race. A purse of $2500 extra was offered for any horse that 

 Bhould accomplish this notable feat, and the course, as was proper, 

 was put into capital condition. The time, as I have stated, was 

 not beaten, and I think the wise never expected that it would be. 

 To that end a concatenation of conditions was necessary which 

 could hardly be looked for on a certain day, and at a certain 

 named place. I may be of the belief that American Girl, or 

 Judge Fullerton, will at some period, beat Goldsmith Maid's best 

 time, but as for naming a day and place for either of them to do 

 it, I should as soon think of jumping into the East River off the 

 Brooklyn Bridge pier. At Kalamazoo, in Michigan, the Maid beat 

 Lucy, American Girl and Chicago in three straight heats. At 

 Chicago, the little mare beat Lucy, who was thenceforth her sole 

 companion and opponent for some time and Chicago. Lucy was 

 R fine slashing bay, by George M. Patchcn, out of a mare by May 

 Day. She was a year older than Goldsmith Maid, and had been 

 apon the turf at least seven years. She had always been noteiJ 

 for speed, but was thought to be a quitter when it was a question 

 of repeating fast heats. The fact, I believe, was that she had too 

 much work when young, before she fell into the hands of Mr. 

 Norris llokomb and Tom Carpenter ; and it ifs thought to have 



