1878 DRIVER. 167 



Vivandiere, Result, Young Sentinel and Charley 

 Green. Prior to that meeting the horses had started 

 at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where Alley was second 

 to Vulcan, Oscar third to Happy Jack, Sister fourth 

 to Modesty and the Brother to Alley unplaced to J. 

 M. Oakley, at Philadelphia, during the Suffolk, Point 

 Breeze and Ambler Park meetings, where Alley won 

 two races, Bateman a first and two seconds, Huntress 

 a second, the Brother to Alley a fourth, while Sister, 

 Wildfire and Oscar were unplaced, and at Plainville, 

 Conn., where Powers was second to Richard and 

 Sweetness, who is now remembered as the dam of 

 Sidney, second to Margurite, by Hambletonian, in 

 the only race placed to her credit. The other starters 

 at the Fleetwood Park meetings, where John Alden 

 Goldsmith made his metropolitan debut as a reins- 

 man, were Lottie and Huntress, the former finishing 

 second to Steve Maxwell and the latter fourth to 

 Nettie. 



While the New York meeting was in progress, 

 James was at Providence, where he won with Alley 

 and Sweetness, the latter making a record of 2 130, 

 trotted second to Dio with Oscar and was unplaced 

 to .Sooner with Bateman. He then moved on to the 

 Boston meetings at Beacon and Mystic Parks, and the 

 meeting at Granite State Park, Dover, N. H., winning 

 two firsts and a second with Powers, two seconds 

 with Bateman, a second and a third with Oscar, a 

 third with Alley, and a fourth with Sweetness at the 

 three, while on the same dates John won a first with 

 Huntress at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a first at Nor- 

 wich, Conn., where she defeated Nelly Irwin, Kansas 

 Chief and Parkis' Abdallah, and a first at Brooklyn 



