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intelligence on so many points, and I doubt if for 

 many years there will be another one before the public witk 

 the same amount of brains and the ability to employ them 

 that Goldsmith Maid had. How I trotted her all over the 

 country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, was told at length 

 in the daily papers and turf journals of those days. She 

 was in my stable continuously from 1866 until the summer 

 of 1877, at which time she was in her twenty-first year. 



The previous season, that of 1876, there was no purse 

 offered through the central circuit for an exhibition of 

 speed by her and I was forced to trot her in the free-to-all 

 race. For a number of years previous to this she had not 

 taken part in races against other horses, and the result was 

 that I had trained her simply for a mile dash, so to speak, 

 once a week at her best rate of speed, generally going the 

 other two heata in the exhibition in a manner that 

 did not fully extend her in any part of the mile. 

 After several successive seasons in this sort of training- 

 and racing it Avas' very evident that, especially in the 

 case of so old a mare, she could not at once return to the 

 old-style system of racing, particularly against a field of 

 horses all of whom made her the target, and expect to beat 

 them easily. It was this fact more than anything else that 

 contributed to her defeat at Cleveland in 1876 by the stal- 

 lion Smuggler. Lucille Golddust, Judge Fullerton, aud 

 Bodine were also in the race and after the Maid had won. 

 the first two heats in 2:15^, 2:171, the stallion beat her in 

 2:16i, 2:19f, and 2:17^^, but after that he was never able to 

 defeat her, although they trotted clear through the circuit 

 together, winding up at Hartford with the famous six-heat 

 race in which the average of the half-dozen miles trotted 

 that afternoon was 2:17f . It was wonderful to see a mare 

 twenty years old going this sort of a race, and it should be 

 remembered that in addition to this she had been winning 

 all the way down the line, having trotted at Buffalo in 2:16, 

 2:15i, 2:15 ; at Utica three heats better than 2:19, and at 

 Poughkeepsie three heats that averaged 2:18. She trotted 



