The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-10
sTRoTTlMG HORSES.
The Growth and Development
of This Animal.
Continually

mare. Whom young and at the time she
should have been made useful she was
fighting everyone that tried to drive
her. She was bred in Orange county,
New York, by VIM. Bodine, and Alden
Goldsmith traded for her when she was
six years old, giving second handed
wagon and SIPS in money. Tho Maid
had always gotten the best of Bodine,
when he tried to work her, and had run
away with him number OF times and
destroyed wagons, carts and sulkys
enough to pay for dozen like her. She
would also jump fences and no pasture
would hold her. His boys wore out a
great deal of shoe leather chasing after
her and often she would be found many
miles from home, rolnping and roaming
around through the country. =
But when she passed into tho hands
of Alden Goldsmith she met her master,
for he was horsemsn of the first water.
In his hands she became gentle, and in
short time showed remarkable speed;
in fact the first race she ever trotted of
any im portance was against Dexter, and
she made him stretch his neck to beat
her. This was at Middletown, New
Jersey, in the early part OF 1865. She
continued to improve until 1869, when
she was sold for $4,000 and passed into
the hands of Budd Doble, who always
drove her after that date until she was
retired from the track.
AT the time Doble got her in his poss.
ession she could trot in 1926 or 2:26, but
she was at that time a very Uncertain
horse in q race, as she was Eighty and
still obstinate, but in Doble's hands she
continued to improve and with patience
became the queen of trotters. OF Budd
Doble we will speak in tho proper place
He is to-day considered the best driver
on tho turf and has number of the first
flyers in his stable. He also drove Dex-
tor to his record and in his races after
the brown gelding passed from the
hands of Hiram Woodruff in 1866.
Goldsmith Maids races were all made
to sulky. She was not good mare to
trot under the saddle, and was not con-
sidered good wagon horse. After her
retirement from tho turf she was sent
TO the Fashion stock farm in New Jer-
sey and was bred to General Knox, who
was grandson OF Vermont Black Hawk
Her progeny, which consisted of two or
three flleys, were never placed on the
turf but all showed great speed in their
private work and on the road. Gold
smith Maid was sired by AleXanders
AbdallaA, 4 son of Hambletonian, who
stands to-day tho greatest of all sires in
the world and the fountain head of the
Ham oletonian family of horses. Ham
bletonian's descendants are scattered
all over America, and many have boon
sold for high prices and shipped to all
parts Of the world.
Hambletonian was sired by Abdallah
n ND hi Il ~
He was foaled in 1910 and was pur-
chased, together with his dam, by
William Rysdyk, OF Orange county,
New York, for SIPS and was
owned by him until his death,
which occurred in 1876. Hambletonians
service was $40 for three or four years
when his progeny began to show speed
and his service fee was raised from $40
to S25, from that to $50 from that to
S100 and then to $3.50, where it stood
until the brown gelding Dexter, his son.
made his mark of 2:l714 in 1867. when
his service was raised to $500 AID re-
mainod at that figure until his death.
His earnings in the stud showed S2S2, 900
cash.
William Rysdyk was a poor man
when he purchased the horse and his
dam. MI. Rysdyk died first. in ninety
days afterward Hambletonian passed
away and in sixty days after that the
colored man who had groomed the horse
for eighteen years followed his mas ter
and the horse he had cared for so long.
The name of bletonian had been
household word for many years. He
had no record on the turf and was never
trained on the track for speed. The
only authentic record of his time is
when hc pulled wagon and was timed
a M mn ~.
and daughters and progeny that have
trotted in the gao class would take
black board as large as house and
close hgurcs 1T that, we will speak OF a
few OF them later. A fund of SIS 600
has lately been raised for monument
for him to be erected in Central Park
New York. Hambletonan died in
March, 1876, aged twenty seven years.
Abdal!ah, the sire of Han bletonian,
lived in time whom breeding of the
trottng horse was a pursuit in embryo,
as 1T were, and the sire of Ham bleton-
ian was N little demand. He made tho
seasons OF 1925 and 1929 at Salisbury
place, Long Island and the followii q
year at Flatbush. UP to 1889 he made
seasons at various places on Long Island,
and in 1910 was taken to Kentucky.
There he met with disfavor, and in 1871
and 1892 made light seasons at the Old
Union Course, Long Island. From 1s42
to 1876 he was at Goshen, N. Y. In
1s4S he served at Chester. N. j., where
ne sired the greatest Of all trottinp
sires, Hambletonian. He was taken
back to Long Island and was lost sight
of until tho early summer of 1854.
One bright morning in that year a
party of horsemon was gathered at
Conk CarlPs stable near Fulton ferry.
on the Brooklyn side, N. Y. The con-
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