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reputation reaching the ear of that noted sportsman, William 

 Lovell, he bought her for $7,000. 



After this she came into competition with such racers and 

 campaigners as Goldsmith Maid, Lady Thorne, and Lucy, and 

 was among the first to lower the colors of the then great Occi- 

 dent in his own state. She won for her owner, in many races, 

 thousands of dollars, and finally died in the harness on the race 

 track at Elmira, IS". Y., where a monument to her memory has 

 been erected at a cost of thousands of dollars. 



It has been said of her that a more honest race-mare never 

 entered a trotting race. 



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