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he had remained on the turf he would have trotted a mile in har- 

 ness in a public race in 2m. 14s., perhaps in 2m. 12s., before now. 

 It will be said, he did not do it when he was on the turf It is 

 true. It is also true, that as Wolfe was killed upon the plains of 

 Abraham he won no battle but that which caused the capture of 

 Quebec ; and that as Nelson fell mortally wounded upon the deck 

 of the Victory he won no greater day than that of Trafalgar. It 

 is unnecessary to decry those who have gone before in order that 

 those of the present hour may be exalted. It might as well be 

 asked that Washington, Wellington and Napoleon should be de- 

 posed in fame because Von Moltke has come up. At the time 

 whfiu Dexter left the course he could beat the whole tribe of trot- 

 ters, including Lady Thorn, easily. At the time she left it she 

 could beat Goldsmith Maid. And Goldsmith Maid has since then 

 made her most brilliant performances. 



From Milwaukie Goldsmith Maid and Lucy went to Minneapo- 

 lis, where the former won again in three heats, but Lucy was 

 close up in 2m. ITJ-s. From thence they travelled to St. Louis, a 

 distance of some 800 miles by the route they had to go, for they 

 were obliged to return to Chicago and then cross Illinois diago- 

 nally again to the south-west. Here the Maid's fastest mile was 

 2m. 198., made in wind and clouds of dust. In the opinion of 

 Doble, Hiokok and the proprietor of the course, Charles Elleard, 

 that was the best heat she made in her whole campaign, the whole 

 of the circumstances being considered. At St. Jo, on the Mis- 

 souri river, the little mare trotted in 2m. 18s. They went on to 

 Omaha, opposite Council Bluffs, but a great storm prevented their 

 trotting. On their way home the Maid trotted in 2m. 21Js., at 

 Pittsburgh. At Philadelphia, Suffolk Park, in 2m. 18|s., 2m. 18Js. 

 She trotted there again and made 2m. IQs., on a heavy track. 

 After this arduous and brilliant season, the Maid went into her 

 eld winter quarters at Bristol. 



In 1872 she was put in condition at Suffolk Park and trotted 

 there in June, in rain and mud, in 2m. 22Js. The Maid and Lucy 



