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1866, giving her a record of 2:31, while he also won at 

 Newburg and Middletown with the Magnolia gelding, 

 Hunter, and placed another first to his credit at Gosh- 

 en the following year before he turned him over to 

 William Bodine, who gave him a mark of 2 137 at 

 Troy, N. Y., where he defeated Major Edsall and 

 Honesty. In 1868 the American Star mare, Lady 

 Whitman, won three races for Alden Goldsmith at 

 Seneca Falls, N. Y., and trotted fourth to Myron Perry 

 at Catskill. 



The Volunteer trotters were introduced to the 

 public in 1869, when Ristori won a race at Goshen, 

 after which she was placed on the retired list until 

 1874, and Matchless, one of the oldest of his get, won 

 at Newburg, after which he was sold to H. C. Good- 

 rich, of Chicago. He drove him to a record of 2:35^4. 

 Ristori and Matchless were not, however, the first of 

 Volunteer's get to take the word in public, as in 1866 

 Edwin Thorne started Hamlet in five races and gave 

 him a record of 2 137 at Newburg. In 1870 Volunteer 

 was represented at the Goshen Fair by Bodine and 

 Huntress, the former winning a five-year-old race in 

 2:451/2, while Huntress trotted second in two races to 

 Lady Whitman, the fastest heat in either event being 

 finished in 2:39^. Alden Goldsmith also won a first 

 and a second at this meeting with the Hambletonian 

 gelding Norwood, which Dan Mace had raced under 

 the name of Drift on the New England tracks in 1869. 

 Norwood was also started at Middletown, where he 

 finished fourth to Lady Salspaugh. 



