284 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



farm, John Goldsmith started in eighty-two races, 

 of which he won twenty-three, was second in 

 twenty, and was awarded premiums amounting to 

 $47,565. After a preliminary skirmish at the Phila- 

 delphia and Meadville meetings, at which he picked 

 up two firsts with Siva, a second and a third with 

 Sabina, a second with Hazel Wilkes and a second 

 with Ben Ali, Goldsmith wheeled into line at Pitts- 

 burg for the last Grand Circuit meeting held over 

 Homewood Park. On the opening day he started 

 Double Cross and Sabina, the former finishing third 

 to Fantasy and the latter second to Miss Lida in 

 2:16^2. On the following day Chris Lang won the 

 race for two-year-olds, making a record of 2:263/2, 

 and Muta Wilkes defeated Wardwell, Miss Alice, 

 Aline and Elko in the 2:15 class, cutting her mark 

 to 2:13^4. Of Goldsmith's other starters, Hazel 

 Wilkes finished third to Martha Wilkes in the free- 

 for-all, and Sabina was second to Silver Star, the 

 latter being forced to step to 2:16^ in the first heat 

 to stall off Beautiful Chimes. This gave Goldsmith 

 a line on the brown gelding's speed, and when he 

 started favorite in the Merchants' and Manufac- 

 turers' Stake at Detroit the following week, he 

 backed Siva with confidence and won in 2:141/2, 

 2:13^4, 2:16^2. She was all in at the finish, and after 

 being unplaced to Bellini at Buffalo and behind the 

 money in tfce race Prince Herschel won at Rochester, 

 Goldsmith sent her home. 



On the trip down the line Chris Lang won the 

 two-year-old stake at Detroit, but failed to show in 

 front again during the season, Director's Flower 

 having too much speed for him at Cleveland, Buffalo, 



