The New York herald., 1921-01-16
GOLDSMITH MAID
EARNED S246,76O
Raced Till Twenty Years Old
and Won Fastest Heat in
Last Campaign.
BY GuRNEY C. CUE.

While Man o. War with earnings of
s244,465 in two campaigns. has sup
planted Domino as the largest winner
among American thoroughbreds, there is
a trotter of live oak and hickory in the
records of harness racing TO whom even
LIan o. War must yield the palm as a
money winner and as campaigner
Her name is Goldsmith Maid
Foaled in Sussex county, y. J., some
thing more than three score years ago.
this marvellous little mare won purses
and stakes the aggregate value of which
reached $364,20O, a larger amount than
any other horse Of any breed ever COM
peted for in any country. This enormous
amount does not represent her net Win
pings but the actual gains, aside from
expenses, brought to her owners footlup
$246,75O.
Her days were not the days of S30,0O0
futurities and free purses of $4,000,
when horse could pile up earnings ap-
preaching quarter of million in
twenty-one races and retire before he
was four years old. as Man o WAR has
done. 1t required twelve years for
Goldsmith Maid TO accumulate her un-
exampled total To do it she had to
win 12I victories and trot 352 winning
heats Of one mile each. The largest
purse for which she ever competed was
$4,000, and in this race her net earn
ings We're only $4,000. In some of her
early contests in Orange county the
purse was a paltry 500,
Trotted 500 Miles.
When in her twenty-first year this
little bay trotter. scant 15.1 hands high,
defeated the future champion. Rarus, in
2:141a, the fastest time ever made in a
race up to that time and for several
years afterward. Before she retired from
the turf to become successful brood
mare at the close of this campaign she
had travelled far enough by water, road
and rail to encircle the globe, going
three times to California and back again.
besides touring the country east of the
Missouri River season after season.
1t Is estimated that Goldsmith Maid
trotted more than 500 miles at speed in
her winning and losing performances,
not counting the scoring which perhaps
added 100 miles TO her total Man o. War
ran little more than twenty miles dur
ing his turf career. and his travels ap-
proximated 1900 miles. He ran his first
race at two and his last at three. She
made her first start when eight years old
and her last when twenty.
Goldsmith Maids long career covered
the HuSh times tollOWlng the CIVIL war,
when large purses for trotters Of her
class were much more common than in
later years None of those that pre-
ceded or came after her ever approached
her winnings. and very few of them
earned 100000 or more. Three of those
whose earnings reached this large sum
were her contemporaries and rivals.
namely. American Girl, 2:16h, with
s11S.100 to her credit Rarus. 2:13A,
with $114.950, and Judge Fullerton, 2 rs,
with S102.035.
American Girls career lasted from
1858 to 1875. She won forty-nine races
for Bill Lowell and her other owners,
and her first winning performances were
in competition with the Maid. whom she
defeated five times in succession in the
spring of 1869. making the big. spawned
mare from Westchester county look like
the coming trotter. When she dropped