212 OLD-TIME TROTTERS. 



her record to 2.30. She won six victories in 1867 before pass- 

 ing into the hands of Budd Doble, who bought her, in com- 

 pany with Barney Jackson, in October, 1867, for the sum of 

 $20,000, and he afterwards trained her and piloted her in 

 nearly all her victories. 



She was purchased in the spring of 1870 by Henry ~N. 

 Smith of New York for $35,000, but who wisely left her in 

 the hands of Doble, who, it is said, had become as closely 

 identified with her as Alexander with Bucephalus or Dick 

 Turpin with Black Bess. 



Doble won one race with her in 1867 and she commenced 

 the campaign of 1868 with a record of 2.28. That year she 

 trotted twelve races, winning eight and being beaten twice by 

 American Girl and once by George Palmer. A very memor- 

 able race of hers was won this year when she achieved a vic- 

 tory over Rhode Island, Silas Bich, American Girl, and others 

 at Buffalo, on which event there was an immense amount of • 

 money staked and in which she lowered her record to 2.24f, 

 afterwards dropping it, during that season, to 2.22£. 



In 1869 she was busy ; she trotted eighteen races, only 

 eight of which were victorious. American Girl and Lady 

 Thorne each beat her five times. The little mare was now 

 traveling only in the fastest company. August 12, 1869, she 

 won at Buffalo against American Girl and George Palmer in 

 2.19J and 2.19J and 2.191, thus placing her on record as win- 

 ning the first three consecutive heats in a race ever won by 

 one horse, and all under 2.20. 



She emerged from the campaign of 1869 with the record of 

 2.19^. In 1870 she trotted twelve races and was only beaten 

 once, by Lady Thorne. This year she gained the highest 

 niche in the temple of trotting fame by scoring the fastest heat 

 on record, 2.17. Dexter, with a record of 2.17i, had held this 

 honor since 1867; this the Maid eclipsed -at Milwaukee, Sep- 

 tember 6, 1871. 



This year she trotted fourteen races and was uniformly 

 victorious, and fairly earned the crown accorded her as Queen 



