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two races, both of which were won by Asa Whitson 

 with Uncle Bill. Bateman managed to get a second 

 and a third, as well as a record of 2:41, while his natty 

 young driver was taken out by the judges, but the 

 change did not improve matters. The next starts 

 were at Catskill, where he was beaten by Molly Carew 

 and Uncle Bill. Branded as a counterfeit on account 

 of the breeding of his sire, Bateman was driven home 

 in disgrace, but he lived to prove that he was a high- 

 class half-mile track race horse, and trained on to a 

 record of 2 :22^. 



The next starter from James H. Goldsmith's stable 

 was the chestnut gelding, John A. He made his bow 

 in August at Warwick, where, after being unplaced 

 to a horse named Trout on the first day of the meet- 

 ing, he was awarded second money in the three-minute 

 race, which was won by William H. Beede in 2 :4c 

 After another start at Goshen, John A. drifted back to 

 the farm, and nothing more was heard of him until a 

 couple of seasons later, when John Alden Goldsmith 

 one day, after he had been raking hay, matched the old 

 horse against a gelding called Edson for $100 a side. 

 The race was trotted at Warwick, and James, who was 

 of the opinion that John had been a trifle rash in mak- 

 ing the match, drove John A. and won. 



When the horses that were shipped west in June 

 returned to Walnut Grove Farm, after the close of the 

 Rochester and Utica meetings, James took them up 

 and started them on the half-mile tracks. At War- 

 wick, the last week in August, he took the word in 

 three races with Rescue and finished third in one 

 event. At Goshen the following week he was also 

 unplaced to May Bird, and Lottie was distanced by 



