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hftr eigl.t or nine times and finding that si e got no better, ho re- 

 solved to take off her blinders and check and try her with an 

 open bridle and standing martingale. The experiment succeeded, 

 and she was driven in all her races for the first three years with- 

 oitaoheok. Only about three weeks Tiad elapsed after her ar- 

 rival at Mr. Goldsmith's, when she was taken with distemper 

 and had a very bad throat for some time. But with her excel- 

 lent constitution she soon recovered, and in the latter part of 

 June was put to work again. The open bridle suited her. With 

 kind treatment her timidity was almost entirely removed, and as 

 she gained strength she began to quicken her very long stroke. 

 Her work was done upon the roads about her home, and she was 

 taken to a track but once before she went to Goshen in August 

 1865, to trot for a purse open to all horses. She won this in 

 three heats, the fastest 2.36. She was beaten at Newton, N. J., 

 and beaten again at Goshen after winning the first two heats. 

 She was then taken home and turned out, being fed four quarts 

 of oats a day, and having a loose-box to lie in at night. Thus 

 she was wintered. 



■ The next spring, being then nine years old, she won a race in 

 three heats at Newburgh. She then beat Burger at Wawasink 

 in Ulster county, and trotted in 2m. 34s. She beat him again at 

 Newburgh in the fall, trotting in 2ra. 31s. She then beat New- 

 burgh at Middletown, in three heats, the best 2.32. She had an 

 engagement the next day at Poughkecpsie with Burger and Em- 

 press, but a great storm coming on, the race was put off until the 

 following Monday. This was on Friday. The mare, Burger and 

 Empress were under engagement to trot at Kingston, Ulster 

 county, on the Saturday. They appeared there, and Goldsmith 

 Maid won a well contested race of five heats. Empress had 

 been very heavily backed for the Poughkecpsie race, but in this 

 at Kingston, she won no heat, while Goldsmith Maid trotted all 

 her winning heats in 2m. 31s. Perceiving from this that Empress 

 could not beat either the Maid or Burger, the friends of the 



