158 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1876 BATEMAN, 



I could hear the pikers laugh 



And call him a giraffe, 



When he stepped behind the field to the turn; 



But they modified the smile, 



At the end of the mile, 



As they saw he had speed to burn. 



When I brushed him to his limit, 



And found they were not in it, 



I took him back and won it by a head; 



Then they said he was a Clay 



And was sure to die away, 



But Bate' was full of race when they were dead. 



There were nine horses in James H. Goldsmith's 

 stable when he shipped to Washington the first week 

 in May, the new material being known as Trio, a 

 sister to Huntress, Oscar and Driver. Oscar led off 

 on the opening day at Ivy City by winning a $1,000 

 purse for three-minute trotters, and followed it up by 

 trotting third and second on consecutive days at the 

 same meeting to the Legal Tender gelding, Faugh-a- 

 Ballagh, that M. J. Doyle had brought on from Savan- 

 nah, Ga. Effie Deans, Huntress and Lady Morrison 

 also won their engagements and Bateman trotted 

 second to Joe Brown. At Brightwood, the following 

 week, the Clay gelding was third to the same horse, 

 and when Oscar, Effie Deans and Lady Morrison fin- 

 ished their races each of them had a third money due 

 them. In the free-for-all Huntress won over W. H. 

 Crawford with Annie Collins and John H. From 

 Washington the stable moved on to Philadelphia for 



