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They trotted at Binghamton on the 17th, with the same result. 

 At Williamsport, October 19th, the Maid beat her again. But at 

 Binghamton, on the 20th, American Girl beat Hotspur and Lucy ; 

 and on the 30th, she bea* G>orge Wilkes and Lucy. That was 

 her last trot in 1869. She had won ten times, and had lost eight 

 times. 



In 1870, she began at the Union Course, May 31st, by beating 

 George Palmer and George Wilkes. On the 2d of June, at Pros- 

 pect Park, Goldsmith Maid defeated her and George Wilkes, in 

 three straight heats. On the 15th, at Boston, Goldsmith Maid 

 beat George Palmer and American Girl, and on the 20th, did it 

 again. On the 24th, at Narragansett Park, it was the same story. 

 At Fleetwood Park, July 7th, Goldsmith Maid beat American 

 Girl and George Palmer again. American Girl had then a let-up 

 until September, and was not taken to Buffalo. At Philadelphia, 

 an the 9th of September, she was beaten by Goldsmith Maid, in 

 company with Lucy and George Wilkes. On the 15th and 16th, 

 at Newhaven, Connecticut, American Girl beat Lucy, Mountain 

 Boy and Lady Sheridan. On the 23d, at Boston, she suffered 

 another defeat from Goldsmith Maid, who beat her and Mountain 

 Boy in three straight heats. October 4th, at Boston. American 

 Girl beat Lucy, Hotspur and Mountain Boy in five heats, Lucy 

 winning the second and fourth. On the 10th, American Girl, 

 Lucy, Mountain Boy and George Palmer were beaten in three 

 straight heats by Goldsmith Maid. American Girl then went to 

 Troy, and on the 14th beat Lucy, Hotspur and George Wilkes in 

 five heats, the first and second being won by Lucy. At Bing- 

 hamton, on the-22d, American Girl beat Lucy and Hotspur ; at 

 Prospect Park on the 28th, she beat George Wilkes to wagons ; 

 and at the same place, November 5th, she beat George Palmer in 

 five heats. On the 9th, Palmer beat her at the same place in four 

 heats to wagons. That was American Girl's last trot in 1870. 

 She was not as good a mare that year as she was in 1869. She 



