208 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



VOLUNTEER TRIBE. 



All tracks looked alike to them. 



Domestic was the last of Volunteer's get that took 

 the word on the big tracks. He was cut down in the 

 middle of his career, and while his sire survived the 

 founder of the trotting stud at Walnut Grove Farm 

 until December 12, 1888, no horse of note was added 

 to his list of performers after 1887. The glory of Vol- 

 unteer as a sire of race horses departed when Driver, 

 Alley, Powers and Unolala, the old guard of the Gold- 

 smith stable, were retired by age and the ills incident 

 to campaigning. Their sire began his stud career 

 under the shadow of Hambletonian's greatness and 

 was neglected by the public until his merit as a stock 

 horse was fixed by the turf test. The family he 

 founded has not bred on like those tracing to a number 

 of the sons of Hambletonian, and at this writing 

 (1903) has been almost absorbed by the more prolific 

 members of the same tribe. 



The following list presents the performers by Vol- 

 unteer, his sons that have sired and his daughters 

 which have produced standard speed under the years, 

 when known, that they were foaled to the close of 

 1902, as published in "Wallace's Year Book." It 

 shows that Gloster, 2:17, and Louis Napoleon, the 

 most successful stock horse by Volunteer, were foaled 

 in 1866; Carrie, 2:24^; Mary A. Whitney, 2:28, and 

 Volunteer Maid, 2 127, three fair trotters and his 

 greatest speed producers, were foaled in 1867. Alley, 

 2:19, and Driver, 2:19^2, a pair that were very busy 



