Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
that Maud s. could be driven to trot mile in POS in her present condition.


 in POS in her present condition.
 BIG ROBBERY
 It was ascertained Thursday afternoon that an adroit and unknown thief robbed the
 treasurer's box at the Hampden Park Spring
 field) races, last Friday afternoon, of $1, ,15O. The robbery was committed on the judges
 stand while the trotting was in progress. The
 money was in $50 and $100 bills The Re- publican says: s1t is understood that they acted on the advice of State Detective Lom-
 bard in keeping the matter quiet, and that number of detectives have been punched ln
 town this week, in the vain effort to spot
 somebody. The question how 1t was done is
 as puzzling as is the one who did it. The
 box was locked with a paddock, and there is little probability that the thief had time to
 unlock it. It is the opinion of Detective
 Lombard that he pried the cover up an inch or so and drew out the money with crooked
 wire, or perhaps a fish-hook, leaving consid-
 erable in the box. Had it not been for this
 peculiar episode of the races, the association
 would probably have cleared $1 ,O0O, As 1t is, they are likely to come out whole when the entrance fees of suspended horses have
 been paid"
 THE CONNECTICUT MARE, HATTIE WOODWARD. The great sensation of the week at Buffalo,
 undoubtedly, was the 2:151 heat of Hattie Woodward She was entered here ir the 2:25 class, but will not start owing to a strain received while trotting at Springfield. She is still in Springfield, and Dr. House, of New
 York, will make thorough examination of
 the mare, and it will then be known whether
 she is permanently disabled Of her per
 formance at Buffalo the Spirit of the Times says: 'It may fairly be doubted if, taking all the circumstances into consideration, the feat was not the greatest ever per formed by trotter. No other, certainly, has ever made 8 record as fast as 2:154, when obliged to trot around six other horses, and
 in this case it was very evident that the oth- CTS were combined to beat the daughter of
 Aberdeen, if possible. The performance was l the most remarkable because the mare had never been asked in trials to beat 2:2O, and
 was driven at gait calculated to discourage her. All horsemen can appreciate this point, and those at Buffalo, who knew the facts, were apprehensive that the heat would
 use her up The handy manner in which she won the next two heats, in 2:184, 220 stamps her as a very great trot
 ter She came out this season, and prior to
 her Buffalo race had won eight events, all in
 which she started, all in straight heats, and all without 8 break Her best record was 2:224, at Cleveland. We have become &C., quainted with a few interesting facts about her, additional to those given by our com missioner. She was bred by Mir. E. A. Wood
 ward of Norwalk Conn.,, one of the Tweed adherents He had a Clay mare of which he thought very highly, and Captain Isaiah Ryn- ders, being friend of MT. Woodward's,
 made him a present of the services of his stallion Aberdeen, in 1871, and the result was
 Hattie Woodward, foaled in 1872. When
 Mr. w. C. France, of St. Louis bought
 Hattie, he also bought her dam, thinking, if
 Hattie was as good as she promised, he would
 like more of the same sort. The dam isnow
 at Passaic, with two youngsters by other
 horses, but this year has agaiff been bred to
 Aberdeenn n