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without a parallel in the history of the trotting turf. She nas subse- 

 quently sold, by the two gentlemen last named, to H.N. Smith, for the 

 sum of $37,000, and yet remains his property. She has been matched 

 against all the great trotters of her period ; and, while she has occasion- 

 ally lost a race, she has ultimately vanquished all competitors, and stead- 

 ily lowered the record for trotting performances, and at the age of 

 eighteen, marked the marvelous, and thus far unapproachable, record of 

 a mile in 2 :14. 



"Twice during the year 1876 she trotted in a race in 2 :15, and although 

 in her first race against the renowned Smuggler she was beaten, she by 

 no means surrendered her queenly scepter, for again, at Buffalo, she as- 

 serted her supremacy in the three fastest successive heats on record. 

 Proudly does she command the sympathy and applause of all beholders 

 when she hurls at her powerful competitor the defiant challeuije, " You 

 may become King, but I am yet Queen." 



"It were useless to mention the names and performances of others , 

 there is no name that can be compared with that of the little bay mare ; 

 the fame and the radiance of all others pale before the brilliancy of a 

 renown that followed her to the age of twenty years, and has been wit- 

 nessed on every great course throughout the expanse of a continent. I 

 subjoin a description of the Trotting Queen, from the pen of one of our 

 most accurate and capable writers : 



"Goldsmith Maid is a bay mare 15 1-4 hands, no white. She appears, 

 at first glance, to be rather delicately made, but this conception is drawn 

 from the form, rather than the quality of her make-up. Her head and 

 neck are very clean and blood-like ; her shoulder sloping and well placed ; 

 middle piece tolerably deep at the girth, but so light in the waist as to 

 give her a tucked-up appearance, and one would say a lack of constitu- 

 tion, but for the abundant evidence to the contrary; loin and coupling 

 good ; quarters of the greyhound order — broad and sinewy ; her limbs 

 are clean, fine-boned and wiry ; feet rather small, but of good quality. 

 She is high mettled, and takes an abundance of work Avithout flinching. 

 In her highest trotting form, drawn to an edge, she is almost deer-like in 

 appearance, and when scoring for a start and alive to the emergencies of 

 the race, with her great flashing eye and dilated nostrils, she is a perfect 

 picture of animation and living beauty. Her gait is long, bold and 

 sweeping, and she is, in the hands of a driver acquainted Avith her pecu- 

 liarities, a perfect piece of machinery. She seldom makes an out-and- 

 out break, but frequently makes a skip, and has been accused of losing 

 nothing in either case. Aside from the distinction of having trotted the 

 fastest mile on record, she also enjoys the honor of making the fastest 

 three consecutive heats ever won in a race, which renders any comments 

 upon her staying qualities unnecessary. 



