220 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



2:20^4, after a sharp brush with Sprague Golddust. 

 On the next trip Ketch was first under the wire, but 

 as he had forced Sprague Golddust out of his position 

 in the stretch he was placed last and the heat given to 

 Green's horse in 2 120, with Tariff second and Maud 

 Muller third. Sprague Golddust also won the third 

 heat in 2:2234, with Veritas second, while Reference 

 met with an accident which caused him to be drawn. 

 On the next trip Tariff carried Sprague Golddust to a 

 break at the head of the stretch and looked to have the 

 heat won, when he made a mistake and Ketch nipped 

 him at the wire in 2:22^2. Star Lily made a break on 

 the first turn, and in taking her back Goldsmith pulled 

 her in front of Veritas. The latter sprang into the air 

 when Doble took hold of him, and landed on Gold- 

 smith's sulky, almost crushing it. Goldsmith pulled 

 up, while Veritas jogged over the course. In the fifth 

 heat Ketch, Tariff and Veritas trotted in a bunch to 

 the head of the stretch, where Goldsmith appeared on 

 the outside with Star Lily. From that point it was 

 nip and tuck between Ketch and the mare, the latter 

 winning by a head in 2:2334- Star Lily also won the 

 sixth heat in 2:2234, after which the race went over 

 until the following day, when she pulled it off with a 

 mile in 2 :2i^4, there being but a neck between her and 

 Sprague Golddust at the finish. After winning the 

 2 :30 class at Poughkeepsie and being defeated by 

 Sprague Golddust in the 2 :30 class at that town and 

 at Hartford, where she reduced her record to 2 :20, 

 Star Lily was placed on the retired list. 



Of the other horses that Goldsmith brought down 

 the line of the Grand Circuit, Gillig was unplaced to 

 Colvina Sprague at Cleveland, third to McEwen at 



