198 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1885. 



The horses paw and prance and neigh, 

 Fillies and colts like kittens play, 

 And dance and toss their rippled manes, 

 Shirking and soft as silken skeins. Holmes. 



After a skip of two years, Unolala was shipped 

 with Walnut, Domestic and Tracy to South Bend, 

 Ind., where the Walnut Grove Farm stable opened 

 the campaign of 1885, the second week in June. Wal- 

 nut was the only starter at the meeting. He finished 

 second to Phyllis. The following week, at Chicago, 

 Walnut won the 2:19 class over Deck Wright, Felix 

 and Belle F. in 2:20^4, 2:21^4, 2:21 ; after being second 

 the preceding day in 2:17^ to Jerome Turner. Zoe B. 

 defeated Jerome Turner and Walnut at Saginaw. 

 The next trial was at Detroit, where Onward, Secret 

 and Adelaide were also in the field. Jerome Turner 

 won the first heat in 2:21^4 and Walnut the second 

 in the same time. In the third mile Turner scored in 

 2:19^4, while the fourth heat went to Walnut in 

 2:21^2, the fifth to Zoe B. in 2:22, and the sixth and 

 deciding heat to Jerome Turner in 2:255^. The other 

 members of the stable were also tried at Detroit, Do- 

 mestic finishing third to Judge Lindsey, Tracy fourth 

 to Bessie G., and Unolala, who was third to Mambrino 

 Sparkle at Chicago, was on this occasion unplaced to 

 Urbana Belle. This was also her last start. 



Walnut moved on to Pittsburg, where, after trot- 

 ting fourth to Albert France over Exposition Park, 

 he made his record of 2:19*4 at Homewood Park in 

 the first heat of a race which was won by Zoe B.and in 

 which she also made her record of 2:17*4, Splan fore- 



