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THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1888 YOLO MAID. 



Like a bird on the wing she flashed off in the lead, 

 Andy talking her back as she took a hold strong; 

 At the half Pointer brushed and his marvelous speed 

 Made her dizzy, when "Papa" Geers sent him along. 



When the trotters were taken up for the campaign 

 of 1888, John A. Goldsmith was at San Mateo Farm, 

 in the employ of William Corbitt, and from that sea- 

 son until 1894 he was constantly engaged in develop- 

 ing and racing the get of Guy Wilkes and the three- 

 year-old champion, Sable Wilkes, with a few tracing 

 to other families, until he had enough farm-bred ones 



