196 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1884 WALNUT. 



And yet they say he once could trot. Holmes, 



Walnut was all that James H. Goldsmith had to 

 depend upon for expense money when he shipped to 

 Philadelphia in May. The money winning Volun- 

 teers that had sustained the reputation of the Walnut 

 Grove Farm stables for so many years had gone the 

 way of the world, and those that succeeded them, with 

 the exception of Domestic, proved very weak timber. 

 After winning at Suffolk and Belmont Parks, Walnut 

 was shipped to Ivy City Park, Washington, where he 

 won the 2:23 class. This success was followed by a 

 walk-over at Bradford, Pa., and firsts in the free-for- 

 alls at Clean, N. Y., Dunkirk, N. Y., and St. Marys, 

 Pa., while Nino, who had been picked up on the way 

 west, was dropped after being unplaced in the Penn- 

 sylvania Circuit at Bradford, Erie and St. Marys. 

 After being unplaced to Harry Wilkes at Homewood 

 Park, and second to the same gelding at Exposition 

 Park, Pittsburg, Walnut swung into the Grand Cir- 

 cuit, at Cleveland, where he was again defeated by 

 Harry Wilkes, A. V. Pantland finishing second and 

 Walnut third, King Wilkes, Mambrino Sparkle, Index 

 and five others being below him in the summary. On 

 the trip down the line Walnut was third to Index at 

 Buffalo, second to Felix at Rochester, where he won 

 a heat, third to Felix at Utica, fourth to King Wilkes 

 at Hartford, and second to Onward at Springfield, 

 where he won two heats in 2:20^2, 2:21. After the 

 Rochester meeting Belle F. was added to Goldsmith's 

 stable. He was second to Onward with her at Utica, 



