TROTTING HORSES. 71 
him that here stood the future Lord of the Trotting 
World.” 
Goldsmith Maid, who reduced the mark from 2.17} 
to 2.14, had almost the appearance of a thoroughbred. 
She was small, being 15} hands high; her legs were 
lean, flat, and wiry; her head and neck were finely 
cut, and indicative of good breeding; she was deep 
through the lungs, but so slight in the waist as to 
suggest a lack of constitution, although she was in 
reality extremely tough and lasting ; her feet were 
small and good. It was said of this famous mare 
that “in her highest trotting form, drawn to an edge, 
she is almost deer-like in appearance; and when scor- 
ing for a start, and alive to the emergencies of the 
race, with her great flashing eye and dilated nostvrils, 
she is a perfect picture of animation and living beauty. 
Her gait is long, bold, and sweeping, and she is, in the 
hands of a driver acquainted with her peculiarities, a 
perfect piece of machinery.” 
Not a few horses like Goldsmith Maid have had this 
peculiar thin-waisted appearance, and yet were pos- 
sessed of much nervous strength and of great cour- 
age. A noted trotter described by Hiram Woodruff 
was of this character. “Rattler,” he says, “was a 
bay gelding, fifteen hands high, a fast and stout horse, 
though light-waisted and delicate in appetite and con- 
stitution. He was a very long strider, and when going 
his best it sometimes seemed as though he would part 
in the middle.” He was afterward taken to England, 
where the climate suited him so well that he gained 
in appetite, and consequently in health and strength. 
Goldsmith Maid, when six years of age, was sold by 
her breeder for $260, having never been put to work 
