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won tlio tl»o third in 2in. lOJs., and the fourth in 2rn. 22s. Althoun;h 

 she was unable to win a heat herself Goldsmith Maid was second 

 in all of them. Goldsmith Maid and Lucy now proceeded on their 

 expedition to California, while American Girl retarnetl to the 

 east and heat Geor<:;e Palmer at Utica in the three straight heats 

 — tlie last of them 2m. 19s. At Springfield, Massachusetts, she 

 heat Henry, George Palmer and Nonesuch in three straight heats, 

 tho last of them 2m. 19s. again. At Prospect Park she beat 

 Rosalind and George Palmer in five heats, Rosalind won the 

 second and third. American Girl trotted the fourth in 2m. 20s. 

 The mare R )salind is one probably qualified to take a very high 

 position on the turf some of these days. She is now nine years 

 old, a bay mare about fifteen hands three inches high, very blood- 

 like and of great strength, with the powerful quarters and stifles 

 which commonly send them along fast, when their action is clean 

 and good forward. Iler action is very much like that of Lady 

 Thorn. She was got by Alexander's Abdallah, the sire of Gold- 

 smith Maid, out of a mare by Brown Pilot, who was a son of Cop- 

 per Bottom, a pacer whose pedigree is not known. At Philadel- 

 phia, American Girl beat Rosalind and George Palmer again. 

 This time there were four heats, Rosalind winning the first, in 

 2m. 21|s. American Girl's last trot in 1872 was at Fleetwood 

 Park, October 7th. She beat Rosebud and George Palmer in 

 three straight heats. The season had been a very successful one 

 for the mare. She had won eight times and had been beaten only 

 twice, once by Goldsmith Maid and once by Lucy. 



In 1873 Mr. Lovell changed his trainer again, putting American 

 Girl into the hands of Dan Pfifer, who had Lady Thorn so long. 

 She began at Fleetwood Park, May 31st, by beating the pacer 

 Harry in four heats. On the 7th of July, at Chicago, she went 

 to wagon against Sensation and two others in harness. Sensation, 

 a bay gelding, by a son of Ethan Allen and Martha by Abdallah, 



was in the hands of her former trainer, Ben Mace, and he beat 

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