, 1874-09-03
SPORTING NEWS.
Goldsmith Maid Makes uer Mile In
2:l4.
Notes Concerning Other Fast
Trotters.
The Ballimores Defeat the White Stock
ings---5 to |.

THE TURF.
GOLDSMITH MAID HcoREs ala.
DosroN, Sept: 2.-At tho second day's racos u
Mystic Park to-day special purse Of $4,000 WAS
offered to Goldsmith Maid to beat her own
record Of 2:149{, sho to have throo trials. The
Maid appeared between the heats Of tho
second racc and made tho first heakin 2:1Dtt9,
going easily ali tho way round, accompanied by
runner attached to buggy and drlSon by
james Golden. Tho second trial WAS maLo utl-
dor the most favorable auspices, Tho track had
been scraped closo In to the pole. Ihoro waH
absolutely no wind. Dtdd nodded for lhc word
tho first time ho cnmo down. The Maid trotted
niloln in 1:o0H. lifting l,or toad once just before
s!le reached thoro, Tie last half milo was trot-
ted without the loast show Of break nn1 aho
nado hor best recorded timo, ALI, amid tho
cheot8 Of tho assembled thousands.
THH NEW KtN0 OF TIE TURF.
THO Saratoga correspondence Of the Now York
Graphic sayH:
Not having Seen Tie great rocc, tho next thing was
to the victorious .oday drove ont to cal!
dog. mud submitted to being haacd and pattol with
1etneas thas almost bocamo pntrontkinE eondescem.
3en ms 6ss nSs E hs IKE
who alHays stskca NJ astitudo when visitors approach
hin. Felloweraft looks rather meek, but yct
has IN SIR Of Discrimination IS II conscious tint
when things become serious he would show who was
who Ho Is chcatnut, and haa aone Of tho Lexington
1narks, pssr q very long white stock'naa IN h:s
and tail decidedly blonde, just lilo scl-ycl-
low with which tho blonde Of tim period has familiar
mel, but ons Of bis attendants kay removed us bon
net to show bis faco Fellowcraft hurt hnBolf not
whit in thc raco ho came ill-thoEe present At Tho
hnsh told mo-pcrfectly fresh, mud looking II 10
could r.n anoor miles. He ae good Squire 1neal.
full rations, aa soon Il 'as offered him after tho
race and no bottcr sEn Of health horse eyinco.
THE MARE LILA.
RnfHFrinP to n rnrnnt MA ra1t1A narfOrr1 anen
Of the mare Lula, at Rochcstor, Hi;ikas' Spirit
Of The Times Baya:
Mr.. Dcforrst has constantly affirmed for tho past
but Goldsmith said, and when @ not T trotug sgaias @
her could beat her time. Woll ovcry owner Of some
thing e1trs-fas is apt 10 hol and eKprcaa opinions Ut
similar nature. bus sotnohow or another they
never fulfilled. Nov, howevoE, tho wonder las
shown herself md under circumstances which uphold
ddeatly etstcd Lula Is tho latoat one to nreak ehe
twentea and sec'iro . record among ths "teonR."
and that with bound thai that hsa electrified
herself 70 10 groaty improved marc since ler roise
inent last fall; and II Neshcater On Tuean5 last, IN
Ing homo from tho half-n,tto tn l:o14<s, and making
losing break in the frnt lnf. Such performance
placos Lula st ono: tn the first flight Of the t1oting
turf and 1t b pleasure for us to congratulate Mr.
uartef tho possession Of t,0 sosaon OF the hour
We only hope tho time ta not far distant when VIC shall
be eaed npon h chronicle nt greater triumph for
L',,a, nat Iuh ~ commonly spelled. II hay n,sro
ssanding Is banda inch, Or bood-ltao appearance,
US with tho idea uat sho was posseasoa Of
great power and endurance, sho was sircl
BY Alexaudora Norman, ho by The Morse borset hor
dam being thoroughbred marc. Trottlng under tho
OF Jennie Perry, He. several years ntnce. nado
record Of 227 IN Kentucky. Prcsfons to beoouling
Weat Of Georgetown, KY. WHO sold her about threo
years ago, when she wns brought East und paco1 in
tho hauta Of John LoYett who then trained for hfr.
Harker. undcr his hands Lula did not mako much
rogrcss and After her poor performance at Springfield
laas fall, MI Of Mr.. Harkcr horscs verc transferred
to the care Of AIr. Charles Green. But a few days
after this change Lula trottct at Prospect Park Sept
a. III 2:24i that betng her 1sat appearance previous
10 her race ak Clsra1aud.