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THE GOLDSMITHS. 



Farm stable in 1877 won thirty-one firsts out of 

 ninety-seven races and marked seven of the nine 

 horses that took the word : 



1878 DRIVER. 



He had naught to commend him but courage, 

 His ribs were as rough as a shelf, 

 But when Driver was out for the money, 

 He was in a class by himself. 



Both James and John Goldsmith were actively 

 identified with the training of the horses in the Wal- 

 nut Grove Farm stable in 1878, the latter making his 

 first appearance at a prominent meeting on June 13 

 at Fleetwood Park, New York, where he won a four- 

 heat race with Driver over Modesty, Nelly Irwin, 



