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| AY GOULD is a bay stallion, foaled 1864, got 

 by Rysdyk's Hambletonian out of Lady Sand- 

 ford by American Star, second dam by a son 

 of Sir Henry, the famous competitor of Ameri- 

 can Eclipse. He was bred by Richard Sears, and was sold 

 with his dam, while at her side, to Mr. Chas. H. Kerner, 

 of New York, who soon after traded them to Mr. John 

 Minchen of Goshen, N. Y. Mr. Minchen disposed of him 

 to Mr. A. C. Green, of Fall River, Mass., who named him 

 Judge Brigham. Hark Comstock, in Wallace's Monthly, 

 thus describes his first entrde into turf society : " He grew 

 to be a handsome, blood-like horse, like most of the produce 

 of the Hambletonian and Star cross, and had the open, 

 slashing action that almost invariably follows it. Mr. Green 

 was not convinced that he had a trotter until one fine day, 

 in the year 1870, the horse took fright at the steam-cars, 

 and ran away with him on a trot. He improved very 

 rapidly from that time on, and the next year he was entered 

 to trot for the $5000 Purse, at Buffalo, where five com- 

 petitors appeared against him, the best of which was Judge 

 Fullerton, by Edward Everett, whose backers were confident 

 of his success, and doubly so after he had taken the first 

 heat in 2:25 if. Great was their astonishment, however, 

 when Judge Brigham cut loose, after a very unfavorable 

 start, and led the field home, in 2:22, the fastest record that 

 had ever been made by any horse in his first race, and 

 equalling the best stallion time to that date. He then 

 finished the race by taking the next two heats, in 2:22} 

 2:26}. Great excitement prevailed at the close of the race, 

 and three prominent gentlemen and capitalists, who took 

 deep interest in horse matters, made a joint purchase of 

 him. He thus became the property of Messrs. H. N. Smith, 

 Jay Gould and Mr. George C. Hall. In compliment to 

 the great broker whose name appears in the ownership, 

 he was named Jay Gould. Subsequently, Mr. Smith pur- 

 chased the interest of Mr. Hall, and that of Mr. Jay Gould 

 was purchased by Mr. Chas. H. Kerner, and thus the horse 

 is still owned." His next race was at Kalamazoo, August 

 17th, against Uncle Abe, Judge Fullerton, and others. 

 Uncle Abe took the first and second heats in 2:28} 

 2:28|, but Jay Gould took the next three, and the race 

 in 2:30 2:26} 2:30}. This was his last race for the 

 year, but the year following, being then eight years old, 

 he trotted at Philadelphia, June 12th, with Lucy, and 

 beat her in three straight heats in 2:24} 2:28} 2:25. 

 He next started at Cincinnati, July 26th, where he defeated 

 the famous Thos. L. Young; the first two heats in 2:28 

 2:30, and then, to show what he might do if he tried, he 

 finished the third, and the race, in 2:24}. He then went 

 to Buffalo, August 7th. where he had made his ddbut a 

 year before, and met and conquered W. H. Allen and 

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Huntress in three straight heats, in 2:272:23} 2:21}, 

 making what was, up to that time, the fastest stallion 

 time on record, and this, too, without having anything in 

 the race with him that could crowd him. so as to urge him 

 to the top of his speed. A few weeks later, he met Pilot 

 Temple, Pat Ring, and Elmo, at Dexter Park, Chicago, 

 and finished his racing career by winning, in three straight 

 heats, in 2:22} 2:25 2:25}, making the total number of 

 heats in which he had been engaged during his two years 

 upon' the turf, twenty-one, in eighteen of which he was 

 a winner, the total number of races being six, in all of 

 which he was victorious. During his last season upon the 

 turf he trotted in twelve heats, and was victorious in every 

 one of them. The average time of all his heats upon the 

 turf, up to this time, is less than 2:25|. In 1873 he did 

 not appear on the turf, having been installed as premier 

 stallion of the famous Fashion Stud Farm, at Trenton, 

 New Jersey, the home of Lucy and Goldsmith Maid ; but, 

 in 1874, the owners of Bashaw, Jr., having published a 

 challenge against him, a match for $5000 was arranged, 

 which was trotted at Bishop's Park, Baltimore, on Oct. 15th. 

 The large audience attracted by the fame of these horses, 

 and who looked for a settlement of the vexed question of 

 the relative merits of the Bashaw and Hambletonian strains 

 of blood, were doomed to disappointment, as Bashaw, Jr., 

 who had been amiss in one of his fore-legs, broke down in 

 the first heat, and Jay Gould won on a jog, in 2:40. 

 Bashaw, Jr., was then withdrawn, and the race declared 

 ended. But to gratify the crowd of spectators, Gould 

 was again sent around the track, this time at speed. He 

 went to the quarter in 34 Js., to the half in 1:08, and 

 finished the mile in 2:19}. This performance was con- 

 ducted strictly according to rule, with the driver, Dan 

 Mace, carrying full weight, and with the judges of the 

 race in the stand. Nine days afterward, at Mystic Park, 

 Boston, he endeavored to beat Goldsmith Maid's record of 

 2:14 ; but the day was unpropitious, and he failed, only 

 making 2:20} 2:21}, in his trials. His last race that 

 year was trotted on the track at the Fashion Stud Farm, 

 Nov. 2d, against Sensation, and was easily won by Jay Gould 

 in three straight heats, in 2:23} 2:24} 2:27. He is 

 described by Mr. H. T. Helm, in his valuable " Essays on 

 Trotting Stallions," now being published in the National 

 Live Stock Journal, as "a bright bay horse, of fine mould 

 and finish, fifteen hands two inches in height, rather light 

 appearing in form, but of great and powerfully-formed 

 quarters and a tolerably fair set of limbs. His head is a 

 finely-formed one, and he has a face that indicates the 

 highest degree of intelligence that in so great a degree 

 marks this branch of the family." His son, King Philip, 

 trotted a fourth heat in 2:24, at Springfield, July 11, 1877. 



