Daily globe., 1882-09-26
GOLDSMITH MAIDS HOME.
| The r,aEatia1 Quarters ia Which the Queen
of the Turf Munches her Fodder.

The razatial Quarters ia Which the Queen
of the Turf Munc1ies her Fodder.
One OF the editors of The Turf Field |
and Farm has just visited the home OF
Goldsmith Maid and furnishes an exceed |
ingly interesting account Of 1t, from which |
the following extracts are taken:
Two miles from the railroad station at |
Trenton, New jersey, is Fashion Stud |
Farm. The acres number three hundred |
and seventy, and the land is fiat and dsandy. |
Public roads divide the tract, and stream |!
of water meanders through it. The fields |
are small, and they are Enclosed by neat |
board fences, painted white, and thrifty /!
Young hodge. Money has been spent
with g lavish hand The stranger, on ar
irving, steps from the carriage to the
piazza of The clubhouse. This is a large
structure, which the proprietor, Mr.. Il. N.
Smith, built for the entertainEaent OF his
friends. It is the custom to I'LL a special
car with gentlemen prominent in Wall
street and conmercial circles, and provide
for their comfort t. the farm from two to
three days at stretch. The large
| reception room OF the club house is luxuril
| ously furnished and adorned by bright pie
| lures OF racing and hunting scenes, and
i
| Exchange. In the second story of the club
house are sleeping rooms, q kitchen, and a
| long dining han. The working Office ad
| joins the reception room, and back OF 1t is
| the spacions carriage room. The colors
used ia painting the building
are gray and brown. The STALL
| ion stables and the training stables are
near the club house, and the arrangement
is excellent All the roofs are slate, and
| the walks are concrete. The railing cOlQrs
are gray and brown. There are Ia boz
stalls, and 5S paddocks, some large and
| others small. The manure pit IS an in
mense affair. It's capacity is 5000 tons,
and cement is laid On the mason work to
render il water-tight. The manure IS
| wheeled and dumped into the pit every
day, and twelve inches Of black muck is
! spread on o layer OF manure. The whole
is open TO the rain, and q liquid is
distilled, which, when applied to the land,
renders it highly fertile. The track is of
sandy loan, end it is little over G mile III
circumference. It is safe but not fast.
| Inside the circuit are three fields, which are
being sown IN wheat this fall, with the OBJ
ject Of getting them back into grass. The
judges stand is a cosy structure painted
red and green. Immediately in front OF
the cldb house is a well twenty-one feet
deep and thiIty-six feet In circumference,
from which sixty thousand gallons have
been pumped in twenty-foQr hours. The
water is thrown into tanks on top the
buildings, and then distributed byhydrantl
all over the farm. Mr.. Smith has to con-
tend with two things in breeding The
land IS not well adapted TO grazingJv The
grass produced by it IS Light and has fre-
| Quectly to be renewed. The grass defcien-
cy is overcome by artificial means. Winter
grown rye is cut in the spring before it is
IN the dough, and fed to the
brood mares and colts Later III
the season the reliance IS upon
are liberally fed. The horses are kept in
their boxes during the day and are giver
the freedom OF the pasture at night. The
; firstjyisit, after passing the clubhouse por'
tails, was 10 the box OF Goldsmith Maid
Our eyes had not rested upon the famous
mare since the memorable race at Hartford
| with Smuggler, and we were anxious to re-
| new the acquaintance. We found her IN
a TOW which faces the track, and she was
looking with nusing eyes through the win
dow upon the circuit. Who knows but
thatsha was dreaming Of the battles of the
pas5-of the applause which always greeted
herwhen Doble logged her in front OF the
grand stand preliminary TO the start. For
!, several years the neatly-clad man and the
trinity built marc formed one Of the strik
ing, one Of bhe sensational pictures OF the
country. The sweet idleness, the careless
ness Cf & 1natron's life, has greatly changed
Goldsmith Maid. She has the gross looh
which follows indulgence. The symmet
l | rical lines developed By training are buried
under layers of flesh. ghe back IS &
, little shrunken or swayed, and the mech
thicker than it used te be, but the eyes art
bright and the feet good. The legs are re
Inarkably clean for mare kept at severe
work on the track for SO great q period O.
5 time, White hairs have come into the fore
5 head, are sprinkled over the body and form
Iprominent spots over the ioin and along
the backbone. These are evidences of age
which cannot beSmistaken. The foretop i:
short, bat the tail is flowing. She responds
TO the stable name OF Mamie, and seems tt
recognize old aoquaintanCes. She IS i'm
patient Of restraint, and likes to get ont
side of her box, which she is permitted tt
do every night. She had been rolling OIL
! the soft ground when she turned TO gree
us, and one Of her sides was covered witt
mud. Charley Cochran, who has passed
! MS seventy second D1rCnuay, ana VINO wall
ed upon her when she was queen OF the
: turf, has been with her st Fashion Stud
Farm ever since she was retired. The ole
; man requested Mr. Robret Bonner, who
was eying her closely, to carefully examine
her feet and legs. The owner Of the horse
which disputed her crown, which was look
, ed upon as her nearest rival, quickly rar
his hand down the near hind
leg and felt of the knot produced
by the suspensory ligament being out oi
place. And Charley expatiated: "When
took charge Of the Maid in 1873 the knot
was as big as a hens egg. used on il
the yolks OF eggs and table salt, also plan
tam leaves and vinegar aud rapidly re-
duced ii. During the seven years was
with her on the turf Iputa q bandage of plan
tain leaves and vinegar on the leg every
night on going to bed at nine o'clock, and
when took it off in the morning always
; found the limb nice and cool. In this way
l kept the fever down. The little bunch
you see on the left foreleg was caused by
her grabbing her quarter ct Fleetwood
park IN 1879, and the tendon of the right
| e. oI1c. tot 4I<1 1o1s