Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-09-11
HORSE NOTES.

Judge Fullerton was raised in Orange
County, New York, and was known as the
Bull colt sired by Mr.. Bonner's famous stall
lion Edward Everett. Fullerton was un-
known until he reached his fifth year Then
gave proof of remarkable speed, and was
purchased by Judge Fullertons brother for
5000 and handed over to Mr.. Trimbe who
in turn transferred him to the care of Dan
Mace. His first great performance was in
the race at Buffalo three years ago, in which
he beat the well-known trotter Jas. II.
Burke, who dropped dead in harness the fol-
lowing year at Buffalo. Although Fullerton
lost the first two heats, he won the three re-
naming heats and race, making record of
2:26. At Beacon Park, Boston, Fullerton
made his fastest record, shutting cut Sensa-
ton. CamOrs, who was in the same race,
saved his distance in 2:l9 II.
Commodore Vanderbilt's Mountain Boy
was bay gelding, fifteen hands high. He
was foaled in 1860, sired by Edward Everett,
his dam being by Gridley's Roebuek, son
of Blackbird. lie was bred in Orange Coun-
ty, and was called the Brigham colt. When
five years old he won a trot over heavy half
mile track in 239 Soon afterward Commo-
dore Vanderbilt purchased him of James
Young Of Newburgh, through VIM. Trimble,
for 500 His sire Edward Everett, (latc
Major Winfeld), is bay horse, flaled in
1855, got by Rysdyk's IIambletonian, dam
by imported Margrave, granddam by Trulr-
peter. Edward Everett was bred by \. Lii
bourn of Orange County, who sold him in
1869 to Mr.. Bonner. Everett is the sire Of
Joe Elliot, who trotte1 a mile in 2:lj 10
Mountain Boy trotted half mile in Loo
and had record Of go Il.
The following are some the Triccs paid for
noted American horses Kentucky S4O, ,OOC
Norfolk, $1,000 Lexington, ;Slj, 900;
Kingfsher, $4,000; Gleneig, $4,000;
| Smuggler, Sl5 900 Blackw0od, $50 Goa:
Jay Gould, $50 600; Dexter, SEA, 900:
! Lady Thorne, $50 600 Jim Irving, $50 900:
| Goldsmith Maid, S20,0 900; Startle, 500 900;
Prospero, $50 900 Rosalinde, so, 900;
Lulu. 100000; Happy Medium, S25 900:
| Clara G., $50, 900 Pocahontas, S35 600;
Edward Everett, $50 1000 Auburn Horse,
Sl3, 900; Judge Fullerton, so 600 Nam
brno BERTHE, $40 900; Socrates, $50, ,0G0:
George Palmer, 81 900 Mambrino Pilot.
| SO 600; George p. Daniels, 81 900 j. G..
Brown, $4,000. Flora Temple sold. when
aged, for IS 900, for brood mare; S25 .000
was offered and refused for Tom Bowling last
summer $50 900 was offered and refused
| for Bassett in his three-year-old form 3d.
900 will not to-day buy haywood or Aste-
roid $40 900 was offered and refused for
/ Woodford Mambrino, and so 900 for Thorn
dale.
Goldsmith Maid was born on the farm of
John B. Decker, in Vantage township, Sus-
sex county, \. j., in the spring of 1871.
From the time she was two or three Years
old until Mr.. Decker sold her at SIX she was
used as a race horse, though without her
owners knowledge. The boys on the farm,
of course, as all boys are, were anxious to
know which was the speediest horse, and at
an early day they found that it WAS the
Maid. And 50 after the old man had
gone to bed they would take her out Of the
pasture or stable whenever race could be
made up. and run her on the road after
dark. She beat everything that could he
brought to run with her, 50 that finally none
uniniormcd from distance could be found
to bet against her. These races were made
up at the country stores and lounging places
in the evening after farm work was over.
and the race run the same night after the
old man had gone to bed. No training, no
grooms, no jockeys, no weight for age-just
a. a man or a boy in his bare feet, mounted
bare-backed, with his toes hug-ing the
mares belly ike leech, was the style; and
the Maid no doubt enjoyed it more than
she has some of her late races in the trotting
ring. One of the most singular freaks OF
the crazy-headed little mare during her farm
life was a habit she had of taking 4 month
" trip through the country. About once a
month, no matter how high the enclosure,
she would break from her pasture and 20
sailing over the neighboring farms, leapins
and tlying over fences. bitches. stone walls
and etreams-through fields of growing
crops. meadows, woods and pastures, up
steep hills and down, until making n circuit,
generally about six miles, she would finally
land in the field from which she started. be-
having herself afterwards in a steady man
ner. for her, until the next run. The time
that she would be out during these trips
was generally about forty minutes. \ few
stops by the way to have little gossip with
her neighbors probably accounted for the
time being so long. One day in the summer
of 1868, Two men who were out buying
horses for the army stopped all night at
Mr.. Deckers, and in the morning bought
| the Maid OF him for $500, and started
for home, leading the mare behind them.
On their way they met Mr.. Tompkins, who
/ knew the little mare, and bought her of them
for $500. The two men also knew her, and
were aware that the mare had great speed,
and believed that she could be made a trot-
ter, but were willing to make 800 by their
mornings bargain. The next day Tompkins
sold her to Alden Goldsmith, an excellent
| Judge of horsefesh, of Blooming Grove,
| Orange county, n. Y, for 5000. From him
she took the name of Goldsmith Maid. lie
| kept her in pretty steady training under a
driver named Wm. Bodine, to whom, more
than other men, should be awarded the credit
of first bringing the mare out. The re-
nOwned Budd Doble, who now drives her so
handsomely, had not then seen or heard of
her. While in trimming for the trottihg
course she was so fretful and irritable, 50
determined to run at every opportunity in
stead Of trotting, so hard to bring to trot
after breaking from that gait, that Mr..
Goldsmith many times determined TO give
up the training and sell her at any price,
but his patient driver maintained hisabiding
faith in her and assured his employer that
she was the fastest animal on his premises
and would come out at last great trotter,
and finally persuaded him to keep her, which
he did until the driver so brought out her
points that Goldsmith, in November, 1865,
SOlU " ID. cdChiusiii 1tJDlt IOT
100000. These gentlemen sold her to II.
N. Smith for S37 900. Doble still drives
her. She made her first appearance in pub
lie in August, 1865. When she trotted in
2:l7 In Milwaukee, September 6, 1871 there
was great excitement everywhere among
horsemen. The majority doubted the length
Of the track and the time. But the track
was measured afterward by competent en-
gineers, who testified, under oath, to its be-
ing full mile in length when measured
three feet from the inside rail ; and the ac-
curacy of the time was established beyond
dispute. Ever since then vast crowds have
attended her races. Since her last great
achievement at Mystic Park in 2:1G 81 this
excitement is again revived.
Mr.. Julius Hook, Viennese engineer,
residing in London, has invented a new
method of using petroleum as a motive
power. His invention docs away with boil
er and furnace, throwing the petroleum in
minute quantities in the form Of spray into
the cylinder of the engine itself, where it is
fred or exploded, the power thus produced
being transmitted by the piston moving in
the cylinder. Petroleum has heretofore
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