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in conformity wiili latter-day ideas. The track 

 career of this champion covered but three 

 years, from 1864 to 1867, and in that time he 

 performed in harness, under saddle and to 

 wagon, winning forty-six contested races at 

 various hitches and distances, one to three 

 miles, and was defeated but four times. His 

 first essay against time was in October, 1865, 

 to beat 2:19 under saddle, and he went the 

 distance in 2:18 3-4. His next time trial was 

 in 1S66. to beat his saddle record, and he 

 failed. The third was to beat the harness 

 record of Flora Temple, starting August 14, 

 1867, at Buffalo, and in the second trial he 

 trotted in 2:17 1-4. After Dexter's last race 

 he was bought by Robert Bonner for the un- 

 precedented sum of $33,000. Mr. Bonner 

 drove him on the road for some years, and 

 up to a year or two before his death, in 1888, 

 Dexter was one of New York's "social lions" 

 in horse circles. 



After Dexter reigned the incomparable 

 Goldsmith Maid. She was a bay, foaled in 

 1S57. All told, in the twelve years she was on 

 the turf, she trotted 135 races, winning 91. 

 She also won 19 contests in which the three 

 heats were in 2 :20 or better. Her total of 

 heats, in races and against time, was 332. 

 September 2, 1S74, found her at Mystic Park, 

 where she started against 2:14 3-4, and cut 

 the mark to 2:14. a record which stood for 

 four years. Goldsmith Maid was retired to 

 the breeding ranks at Fashion Stud, Trenton, 

 X. J., at the age of twenty-two. The last pub- 

 lic appearance of the Maid was at the first 

 National Horse Show, in 1884, at Madison 

 Square Garden, when she was paraded in the 

 ring with the ex-champion stallion Smuggler, 

 2:15 1-4. who defeated her in 1876 at Cleve- 

 land, in one of the greatest old-time races in 

 the Grand Circuit. She died in September. 

 18S5, at Fashion Stud, in her twenty-eighth 

 year. 



Rarus, 2:13 1-4, was more celebrated for 

 race quality than beauty. He was the fourth 

 gelding to figure as a world's champion. A 

 bay. foaled 1867. he took his world's record 

 in 1878. against time, in the third heat beating 

 2:14. This was at Buffalo, August 3. He then 

 became an exhibition horse, trotting a few 

 matches with Hopeful and Sweetzer, the 

 pacer, the best miles he trotted subsequent to 

 his record being 2:13 1-2. which he did twice. 

 Rarus trotted in all 185 heats in 2:30 or bet- 

 ter, and won 43 contested races. After his 

 mile in 2:13 1-4. August 14, 1879, at Roch- 

 ester, he was sold to Mr. Bonner for $36,000, 

 and died his property in 1892, aged twenty- 

 five years. 



St. Julien. 2:11 1-4, the next world's cham- 



pion, was a bay gelding, foaled [869. < >dober 

 25, 1S79. he started at Oakland, Cal., to beat 

 2:13 1-4, the world's record, held by Rarus, 

 and won in 2:12 3-4. One of the most inter- 

 ested witnesses of this feat was General U. S. 

 1 .rant. In 1880 St. Julien was brought East, 

 and August 27, at Hartford, he started to beat 

 2:11 3-4, his own time record, made at Roch- 

 ester, August 12, and trotted the second heat 

 in 2:11 1-4. St. Julien was returned to Cali- 

 fornia in 18S3, and turned out, free to roam 

 where he liked. More than ten years after, the 

 old horse was missed from his usual haunts, 

 and a search revealed his moldering bones in 

 a gully, where he had died months before. 



Jay-Eye-See, 2:10, the twelfth world's 

 trotting champion, was a bony-built black 

 gelding, foaled 1878. and the first extreme 

 record holder that was Southern bred. He was 

 bought when a two-year-old by the late Je- 

 rome I. Case, of Racine. Wis. In 1884 Jay- 

 Eye-See was an exhibition horse, starting in 

 eight specials. August 1 he started over the 

 new Seth Griffin track at Providence. R. I., to 

 beat 2:10 3-4, and trotted the second heat in 

 2:10 flat. This put him at the top, but his 

 reign only lasted twenty- four hours, as the 

 next day Maud S. trotted in 2:09 3-4 at Cleve- 

 land. From his fourth year Jay-Fye-See had 

 a hind foot that was liable to give way at any 

 time, and his retirement in 1884 was none too 

 soon. The little black gelding emerged from 

 retirement in 1892, but this time as a pacer, 

 making his first start to beat 2:25, and 2:17 

 was hung out for him. At Chicago he paced 

 in 2 :o8 3-4. then went to the kite track at 

 Independence and paced in 2:06 1-4, which 

 record he never beat. Jay-Eye-See was the 

 first and only world's champion that ever held 

 a double record, i. e., at both gaits. After 

 1892 he was a pensioner of the Case family, 

 at Racine. Wis., and lived to the ripe age of 

 31 years, dying in June, 1909. 



Maud S.. who deposed first St. Julien, then 

 Jay-Fye-See, in short order, was a golden 

 chestnut, foaled in 1874, at famous Woodburn 

 Farm. The story of her sale to William H. 

 Yanderbilt, when a four-year-old, for $21,000 

 and the attempts of various trainers to get into 

 her good graces, until William W. Blair 

 proved to be the "only" man, is an oft-told 

 tale. Maud S. was one of the few world's 

 champions that never suffered defeat, although 

 her contests against other horses were com- 

 paratively few. She started four times against 

 the watch in 1884, and on the third essay, a; 

 Cleveland, she beat the record of Jay-Eye- See 

 by trotting in 2 109 3-4. A few days later she 

 became the property of Robert Bonner, who 

 paid $40,000 for her, and made her last start 



