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that she was worth the handling. He discovered her ability, and soon 

 brought the world to a knowledge of her value. Under his careful 

 and patient management, and the skillful drivers employed by him, 

 «he soon displayed such speed and extraordinary qualities of game 

 ■and endurance, that he was able to sell her, at about the age of eleven 

 years, for the sum of $20,000. The purchasers were B. Jackman and 

 Mr. Budd Doble, and, under the guidance of the latter, she has stead- 

 ily advanced in a career of fame that is without a parallel in the 

 history of the trotting turf. She was subsequently sold, by the two 

 gentlemen last named, to H. N. Smith, for the sum of $37,000, and 

 yet remains his property. She has been matched against all the great 

 trotters of her period; and, while she has occasionally lost a race, 

 she has ultimately vanquished all competitors, and steadily lowered 

 the record for trotting performances, and, at the age of eighteen, 

 marked the marvelous, and thus far unapproachable, record of a mile 

 in 2:14. 



Twice during the year 1876 she trotted in a race in 2:15, and 

 •althouo-h in her first race asrainst the renowned Smuffffler she was 

 beaten, she by no means surrendered her queenly sceptre, for again, at 

 Buffalo, she asserted her supremacy in the three fastest successive 

 heats on record. Proudly does she command the sympathy and ap- 

 plause of all beholders when she hurls at her powerful competitor 

 the defiant challenge, " You may become King, but I am yet 

 Queen." 



It were useless to mention the names and performances of others; 

 there is no name that can be comj^ared with that of the little bay mare; 

 the fame and the radiance of all others pale before the brilliancy 

 of a renown that followed her to the age of twenty years, and has 

 been -witnessed on every great course throughout the expanse of a 

 continent. I subjoin a description of the Trotting Queen from the 

 pen of one of our most accurate and capable writers: 



Goldsmith. Maid is a bay mare 15^ hands, no white. She appears, at first 

 glance, to be rather delicately made, but this conception is drawn from the 

 form rather than the quality of her make-up. Her head and neck are very 

 ■clean and blood-like; her shoulder sloping and well placed; middle piece 

 tolerably deep at the girth, but so light in the waist as to give her a tucked- 

 up appearance, and one would say a lack of constitution, but for the abundant 

 ■evidence to the contrary; loin and coupling good; quarters of the greyhound 

 ■order — broad and sinewy; her limbs are clean, fine-boned and wiry; feet 

 rather small, but of good quality. She is high mettled, and takes an abund- 

 ance of work without flinching. In her highest trotting form, drawn to an 



