The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-30
GEORGE WILKES.
His Authority Goldsmith
Maids 2:17 Sustained-Dexte,
Dethroned.

Out the States by Inc unprecedented perform
an, of Goldsmith Maid and Budd Doble,
over the Cold Spring Course, at Milwaukee,
has, Enthusiastically speaking, in turf circles,
been without precedent. In the issue of
THE TINES of Oct. 18th, We commended that
the Maids exploit would be finally accepted
as the record. George Wilkes, hitherto con-
sidered the oracle in turf matters, was absent;
his journal in charge of old Charlie Foster,
acquiesced in the attempted fraud. How
ever, Mr. Wilkes returns from an extended
tour abroad; hear what he says:
''GoLDsMITH's MAID VS.. TINE
81. K. s., Bergen FOint.--I noticed an
intimation in last weeks Spirit that Mr.
Wilkes, since his return from Europe. had
expressed his opinion to The effect that Gold
smiths Maid had beaten the public time of
Dexter in her trot against Lucy, on the Cold
Spring track at Milwaukee, on the 9th of
September last, and that the t me she then
made was a valid record. Please answer if
that ia to be the position of the Spirit in the
future.
"Ansrer.-Yes, that is to be the position
of the Spirit. We hold the previous decision
to have been erroneous, and see no reason
why the record of the mares performance,
as given by the judges should no, stand.
The point raised as to the possible COLLISION
Of the drivers, through the presumed own
ership Of the two contes;ing horses by the
same man, might present reason for the in
valuation of outside be,s, but it cannot az
feet the actuality of the performance. In
like manner, records had been obtained over
the same course by Flora Temple and Prin-
cess, by Patchen and Gen. Butler, and BY
many other horses, who who were notorious
y hippodroming. and those records
stand in the pages Of the Trotting
Register to-day, without the slightest ques-
ton; and so they will continue to stand
through all time-and so they should. The
Cold Spring track at Milwaukee has been
duly measured, and has been ascertained to
be full mile and more. 1t is, moreover, a
good track; for it is laid ont upon the exact
plan laid down by the Spirit Of the Tunes,
in the American Trotting Register, over
fourteen years ago; and the judges who pre-
sided at the race in question, were not only
gentlemen of unimpeachable character, but
we'll qualified by experience, TO judge race.
They say, the mare honestly performed the
mile and made the time; they also say it was
q regularly and fairly nducted race, and
until proof is made to the contrary, nobody |
can gainsay il. We do not hold the objec |
tiOns that have recently been made TO the |
At portions of il the horses |
temporarily disappear from sight-to he of
any weight. 1t appears that but 96O fee OF |
the track, ina is thus obscured, and that |
this il broken into four parasitic first being |
of 3O4 feet the second of go feet, the third |
oil S2U lee, and the iOurth oil ~ ieei, win
the track IN PLAIN view OF the judges stand
between each break, IN distances varying |
'ron ~ to l5o feet. by way OF providing
against these obstacles, however, Inc Judges
in this race sent out patrol judges, to observe
the mares while trOtting through these
masked portions. and as the present rules !!
provide for the appointment of patrol judges,
there can be no objection here. Under these
conditions the mares trOtted the heat-no
one entering protest against the track, the
Ownership of the horses, the weight carried,
or anything else. At the end of the heat and
race, the patrol judges reported tina. the
mares trotted honestly IN the rear OF the /
NAKED portions, and the main JUICES in
the stand declared that they had trotted
fairly in every other part, giving the time of
the best heat at 2:l7-though two Of the three
watches in the stand recorded the heat at
2:l64 and 2:l6f. If this is not good record,
We are 1t loas to know how good record
can be made; and We exceedingly regret
that the honest earnestness of our writers, in
to discourage what was undoubt-
eddy hlppodrome AFFAIR, should have led
them to mistake the essential part OF the per
mos therefore, VINO pet tha'
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