234 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1881— JOHN GOLDSMITH GOES WEST. 



Go west, young man! go west. — Greeley. 



When St. Julien reduced the world's record to 

 2:1254 at Oakland, on October 25, 1879, the breeders 

 of the Pacific coast decided that a little Volunteer 

 blood would add materially to the speed and stamina 

 of the stock descended from the horses which were led 

 across the plains by the forty-niners. Prior to this 

 date Admiral was purchased in Orange County and 

 taken to Nevada, while either that year or early in the 

 following one, Monroe Salisbury visited Walnut 

 Grove Farm and purchased the Volunteer mares, 

 Sweetness and Kate, sister to Powers, as well as May 

 Day, 2:30, by Ballard's Cassius M. Clay, Jr. Bate- 

 man was also sold and taken to California, where he 

 was raced during the season of 1880, but did not have 

 sufficient speed to lower the colors of Brigadier and 

 Abbottsford. 



In 1881, when James H. Goldsmith was reinstated 

 by The National Trotting Association, his younger 

 brother decided to take Horace Greeley's advice and 

 "go west." In September of that year he was at Oak- 

 land, Cal., where he won a four-year-old race with 

 Romero over Alexander Button, Honesty and Annie 

 Laurie, giving him a record of 2 \22y 2 in a fourth heat. 

 He also won in the same meeting with Gibralter, 

 while after his races with Bateman he had a third to 

 Brigadier and a fourth to Abbottsford to show for his 

 labor. Brigadier also defeated the Clay gelding at 

 Santa Rosa and Stockton, where Romero won again. 

 Bateman's last start was made at Salt Lake City, 



