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Goldsmith Maid
Goldsmith Maid (1857 – September 23, 1885) was a prominent Standardbred racemare in the 1870s that was called the "Queen of the Trotters" and had a harness racing career that spanned 13 years. Her last race was won at the age of 20 against a much younger horse named Rarus.〔( ''New York Times.'' September 25, 1885 )〕 She was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1953.
==Pedigree and early life==
Goldsmith Maid was originally named Maid and was foaled in the spring of 1857 at the Deckertown, New Jersey farm of John B. Decker. Decker had purchased Maid's dam Old Ab (sired by Abdallah, the sire of Hambletonian 10) in 1853 from a hat peddler and, taken with the mare's even temperament, had bred her to Alexander's Abdallah (formerly known as Edsell's Hambeletonian) in the hopes of producing a fine farm colt.〔Porter and Coates. ''Famous Horses of America.'' Henry B. Ashmead Press, Philadelphia. 1877. pg. 7〕 Alexander's Abdallah was also a grandson of Abdallah, which meant that Maid was very inbred in her male lineage. While Old Ab may have been gentle and even tempered, her first foal was a wild, fiery-tempered filly that jumped and crashed through Decker's fences and ran through the corn fields of his neighbors.〔
Maid was not able to be trained as a harness horse or for any other occupation that would be of use on a farm due to her refusal to be hitched to a cart or pull a plow. Yet Decker, taken with the horse's lively spirit, kept her on his farm for seven years.〔 Though she was untamed, one of Decker's hired hands secretly rode Maid in several local horse races, and she become known as a fast, albeit ill-tempered, runner.〔 In November 1864, Mrs. Decker, tired of the horse's infamous reputation as "Decker's worthless mare", persuaded her reluctant husband to sell Maid to his nephew John H. Decker for $260.〔〔 Decker in turn sold Maid to William Tompkins, a harness racer, a few days later for $400 while en route to his home in Newburgh, New York. Tompkins was also unable to race Maid successfully, with the horse refusing to adopt an even gait that would not endanger both sulky and driver. He sold the horse in the early months of 1865 to Alden Goldsmith for $650 and a second-hand buggy.〔( ''Sports Illustrated.'' "The Belle Of The Seventies." August 16, 1954. )〕 Goldsmith changed the horse's name to Goldsmith Maid and put her under the training of William Bodine.〔
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