16 Process of Power Changes 



The trotter is trained for racing purposes, and 

 that training consists in driving the horse at the 

 trot day after day and year after year until finally 

 retired from the track. A racing career lasts as 

 long as it is financially profitable, and no longer. 

 We will take the case of Goldsmith Maid as it is 

 one of the longest of which we have full records. 

 A horse is full grown at three or four years of 

 age, and a few of them live more than twenty 

 years. The record here begins at nine years of 

 age because it was not until that age that she had 

 developed the speed which would classify her as 

 a "standard trotter." 



Extreme Speed of Goldsmith Maid. 



Feet per 



Age Time second 



Nine years 2:30 35.20 



Ten years 2:24^ 36.54 



Eleven years 2:22^ 37.05 



Twelve years 2:19^ 37.85 



Fourteen years 2:17 38.54 



Sixteen years 2:16 38.82 



Seventeen years 2:14 39.40 



One thing to be noted here is that her gain in 

 trotting power was not limited to the attainment 

 of full growth, but continued year after year 

 with the most striking improvements made in the 

 evening of life. At ten years of age Goldsmith 



