Salt Lake Evening Democrat

Budd Doble on Goldsmith Maid.

In conversation with Budd Doble the other day, knowing the great affection he had for Goldsmith Maid, a reporter asked him, 'Did you regret parting with her when she retired from the turf?' To which he answered both 'Yes and no. I naturally felt grieved in separating forever from her, and still I was glad when the day came for us to part, as for the last year I had the utmost horror and dread of her breaking down, for she had trotted so many hard races and was so well advanced in years, that with every race came this terrible feeling of her breaking down in some of her desperate contests; so when she trotted her last race and was turned out to enjoy her well earned rest, I experienced a feeling of great relief.'

An inquiry from one of the party as to her intelligence brought Doble to his feet with the remark:

'Gentlemen, the Maid was the most intelligent animal you ever saw, she knew more than many men.' Being asked to exemplify his remarks he said: 'In scoring she would do as she pleased: if she was back and did not think she could get up, all the whipping in the world would not make her increase her speed, but if she thought she could get a good start, all I could do to prevent her was of no use. I remember well in a race with George Palmer, he got her all mixed up scoring so that she did not seem to know what to do, and he beat her the race; the next place we trotted I was jogging her around the track, when I met George Wilkes, of whom she took no notice, a little further on George Palmer met us, when the Maid instead of passing him, stood still and trembled like a leaf, while the perspiration poured from every pore in her body. but when our race was called every vestige of fear had departed, and she scored with determination and speed that I did not deem her capable of. She seemed to know the horse that had got her mixed up scoring, and beat her the previous week, and was determined to redress herself on this occasion.'—Chicago Horseman.