280 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1892.— JOHN A. GOLDSMITH COMES EAST. 



Happy are thou as if every day thou hads't picked up a horse 

 shoe — L ong fellow. 



John Goldsmith was advised of his brother's death 

 while attending the Petaluma meeting. He was not 

 feeling very well at the time, not having fully re- 

 covered from the effects of the accident in which 

 he broke a leg the year before, and when the season 

 closed, he decided to race in the East, taking with 

 him a racing stable from the San Mateo Farm. 

 Early in 1893 he and Hickok crossed the Mountains, 

 the former having Hulda and Azote and the latter 

 Muta Wilkes, Hazel Wilkes, Una Wilkes, Rupee, 

 Ulee Wilkes, Jean Wilkes and Lesa Wilkes by Guy 

 Wilkes and Oro Wilkes, Sabina and Sabledale by 

 Sable Wilkes. Both stables were given their final 

 preparation at Cleveland. The first start was made 

 at Detroit, where Muta Wilkes won the 2 130 trot, 

 Hulda being drawn on account of sickness, after hav- 

 ing placed two heats to her credit. Hazel Wilkes 

 after winning a heat in 2:16^, finished second to 

 Honest George, and Una Wilkes was unplaced to 

 Martha Wilkes. Hazel Wilkes was again second to 

 Honest George at Cleveland, where Muta Wilkes 

 won in 2:2034, and Rupee was awarded second pre- 

 mium in the race won by Grant's Abdallah. Gold- 

 smith's next engagements were at Sturgis, Mich., 

 where he won over the kite track with Muta Wilkes, 

 Una Wilkes and Oro Wilkes, the latter also picking 

 up a second in the two-year-old stake that Marvin 

 won with Antella. Of his other starters Rupee was 



