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...Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from 1865 to 1877, won $364,200. Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced only once at 8, made her best time...
...which Goldsmith Maid reached her prime seems strange, the age of trotting-horse drivers seems stranger still. Most sports have one "grand old man," but trotting contains almost no other kind and a driver with less than 20 years experience is rarely seen on first-rate tracks. Famed Pop Geers was only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They...
Came the night of March 15th. The theatre was packed. In a side box, seated conspicuously in full view of the house, sat Dr. Johnson. As the curtain went up on the first act, Goldsmith sneaked out the stage exit into the Mall where he walked for some time in an agony of apprehension. Coming back at the beginning of the fifth act, he reached the wings just in time to hear a hiss from the audience. He was dropping with alarms at this when the hard-boiled manager came up and said, "Psha, Doctor! don't be afraid...
That was a lie which Goldsmith never forgave. His successful play became a triumph when, ten nights later, there was a command performance for the King...
This afternoon at two o'clock Professor Greenough will lecture on the dramatic career of Oliver Goldsmith. (Sever...