Best Time on Record. Three Heats in 2:19 3/4 2:16 1/2 2:16.
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content: Color print of two trotting horses (Goldsmith Maid and Judge Fullerton) pulling sulkies in a race at East Saginaw, Michigan, July 18, 1874. Three officials are in a stand on left behind them.
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content: A color print of three judges sitting in a box marked “2:19 ¾, 2:16 ½, 2:16” and watching the conclusion of a harness race. The horse named Judge Fullerton passes the finish line two lengths ahead of Goldsmith Maid (Note: the horses are incorrectly labeled, Judge Fullerton has the blaze on his face). Their jockeys in sulkeys drive them to a final spurt of speed. A picket fence separates the track from the open countryside. In the background are rolling hills, a small town, and a body of water.
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content: Judge Fullerton was foaled in 1865 in Montgomery, NY from Edward Everett, a distant descendant of Hambletonian, and the Daniel F. Bull Mare. He was one of Smuggler’s principle rivals. Judge Fullerton raced from 1870-8 and won 33 of his 80 races.
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content: Goldsmith Maid was a Standardbred mare foaled in 1857 in Deckertown, NJ to John B. Decker. She was a descendant of Abdallah on both sides from Old Ab and Alexander’s Abdallah, and inbred on her sire’s side. Maid was lively and refused to be harnessed for the first seven years of her life, but one of Decker’s employees secretly road Maid in racing competitions where she began to gain a good reputation. She was eventually sold to William Tompkins, a harness racer, for $400 dollars but quickly sold for the third time, to Alden Goldsmith, in 1865 because she was becoming dangerous to the drivers. Maid began her formal yet unconventional training at age eight, when trainer William Bodine allowed her to set her own pace. The training worked because in 1865 she won her first trotting race with a time of 2:26 and another in 1868 with a time of 2:21 ½, when she was sold again for $20,000 to Budd Doble. She held the position of top trotting horse, a new “Queen of the Turf” in American for eight years of her thirteen year career. By 1870 she had become so popular she traveled to special matches in her own railroad car. She even shaved three seconds off the record mile time of 2:17 at age 17, not to be beaten until 1878 by a much younger horse, Rarus. By the time of her death in 1885 in Trenton, NJ, Goldsmith Maid had won 92 of 121 races and earned a total of $364,200. A period of national mourning took place after she suddenly passed away. She was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame as an “Immortal” in 1953.
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content: The race depicted in this print took place on July 18, 1874 in East Saginaw, Michigan, home to one of the best trotting courses of the day. 8000 people attended the match and saw Goldsmith Maid win with a time of 2:16. Budd Doble is the jockey driving Maid and Judge Fullerton is driven by Dan Mace.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: World
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content: United States: Michigan, Saginaw
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content: Horses
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content: Horse Race between Judge Fullerton and Goldsmith Maid
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content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: DL.60.3568
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content: 60.3568
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content: lithograph
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content: Lithograph
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content: image: 18 5/8 in x 22 1/4 in; 47.3075 cm x 56.515 cm