The Indiana State sentinel., 1878-11-13
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JCInoinnati Gazette.l
Tho extraordinary time OF 2.l7H on the
Lexington track by the four-yelr old lilly,
Maud 81 has shot her into national nota-
riety. She had never been heard OF until
the present summer, when her late owner,
Captain G. n. Stone, exhibited her at
Chester Park and on few other tracks,
where she attracted attention by her beauty
and by her excellent promise. Her history,
though not lengthy, serves TO show how ex-
perts I'm horses are sometimes mistaken In
their estimates of uniried capacity, and how
little young colts are disposed to promise as
to their future. Three years ago this fall,
the late Captain James Bugher, then the
worthy mayor OF Clifton, called on Mr.: w.
z. Hubert, and proposed trip to the Ken
tucky horse sales. Both gentlemen were
noted for their love OF fine horses, and for
the character of their stock. Mr.. Hubert,
feeling that he needed nothing
better than what his stable con-
tanned, showed 90 disposition to
go, but Captain Bugher finally
prevailed upon him, and they started.
Among other persons present at the Lexing-
ton sales were Judge Oliver and Mr.. K w.
Eittredge, of Cincinnati. They attended
| one or Two other sales in Kentucky, and as
result Captain Bugher bought SIX or seven
| illies and colts, aud among them the one
year-old Maud g for which he paid $3.50
| Mr.. Hubert bought pretty young chestnut
| illy, fof which he paid Sl60 After their
return home Captain Bugher sent his trained
man and az assistant and brought the who,e
| lot including Mr.. Hulberts purchase, out to
! his stock farm near Glendale. Mr.. Hulberts
| filIy so closely resembed Maud s. that con-
siderable trouble occurred in the selection
| Captain Bugher insisted that Maud s. was
| the animal Mr.. Hubert had bought, and
| Mr.. Hubert, with a vague recollection of
! some peculiar points in the animal he had
| purchased, insisted more strepuously thai
/ she was Captain Bugher's. The captain
4 finally yielded, retained Maud and surren-
dered the other chestnut to Mr.. Hubert
The second chapter tells us that Mr. Hull
bert put his FLY into the hands of a trainer,
| who after a whole season OF careful training,
reported that there was mo trot in her, and
| Mr.. Hubert put her in the Filth street horse
market and sold her for $60-$100 less than
he had paid for her. On Captain Bugher's
death, which occurred a year after the pur-
chase, Maud s., with other stock, and the
Glendale stock farm, became the property of
his son, Mr.. Horace Bugher, who tired of
carrying so much stock, and after considera-
able persuasion induced Captain Stone to
buy Maud s for the original purchase money.
The sale was made year ago last March.
While Captain Stone did not anticipate
mucn from his purchase he was shrewd
enough to make the most of it. He knew
her good pedigree, and of her being sired
by Harold and damned by a mare of the
we'll known Pilot Junior So he put her
! in charge of the trainer, Peabody, who
passed a good portion of the remainder
of the spring, summer and fall of 1877
| with her at Chester PARK. During
all of that period her progress had
been mosteucour aging, and Captain Stone be-
gan to realize the value of his purchase. At
later period he put her under Trainer w.
4 w. Bair, who has the glory of completing
| the DEVELOPMENT of the phenomenal trotter.
Captain Stone became so assured of her ability
that he placed her on the track last spring,
and since that time trotted her thirteen full
miles and four half miles, in each of which
she exceeded every expectation and won the
admiration of every crowd before whom she
trotted. Her greatest feat was at the recent
| Lexington races where she scored 2:l7E.
| making the entire mile without a skip, aud
producing more enthusiasm probably than
any animal who ever appeared on the track.
Her growing reputation during the sum-
mer attracted the attention of William II.
Vanderbilt, OF New York, who offered s2l, =
900 for her in case she exceeds d 2:1S. Captain
Stone promised his trainer 81 900 in case she
exceeded that time, and BAR devoted his
best efforts to secure the prize.
On the strength of her record Captain
Stone telegraphed Mr.. Vanderbilt, and the
latter telegraphed the American Express
Company to pay Captain Stone the $2l ,00O
on delivery of the animal.
The announcement on the Gazette brlle-
tin board of the hour at which the famous
filly would reach the express Office q O'Clock
drew an immense crowd, who lined the
street from Fifth to Fourth for nearly an
hour before the appointed time. When she
came in, in cover bearing her name, under
charge of her groom, with Captain Stone
ahead in his buggy, from the girls stable at
Chester Park, the crowd surged down to the
corner OF Fourth and Race. and no hero,
military or civic, ever attracted more atten-
ton or received more adulation. They
pressed around and showed a disposition to
| touch her. A removal of her cover would
have ELECTED the widest and most tumultu
ous enthusiasm. But after few moments
rest she was taken down through the alley 10
the resr OF Van Loo's photograph gallery to a
stable. where a camera had been placed to Sc
cure the representation of what will probably
be her last appearances in Cincinnati. Then
she was taken to the stables of the American
Express Company. Captain Stone turned
her over 10 Mr.. Frank Clark, agent of the
company, and received the S2l 900 in
national bank bills and greenbacks, aud
Cincinnati, which had made her, lost the
famous filly. She was sent east on the e:30
express tram from the c., III. aud ID. depot,
over the Short Line TO Cleveland, and thence
over the New York Central TO New York,
whittier she is now speeding her way, with
little. IL any, knowledge of the fuTore she
| will create on her arrival.
The noted fiIly is beautiful dark chest
nut, ss the horsemen invariably name the
color which plain people call sorreL She
has not spot or streak OF white about her.
She is fifteen hands three inches in height
with fine neck, but head that is her only
fault, being little too heavy. Hereyes and
i ears, however, make up In kindlioess of ex-
| preston for what is lacking in symmetry
4 Her body Is compact and not heavy, her tail