, 1880-08-01
THE TURF.
Some Further Facts Regarding the
:: .~ 2:f3l- Of Maud S.
a List of the Winning Horses, Their
Sires, Etc, at the Cleveland
Meeting.
Recent Suspensions and Reinstatements
:. OF Western Horses by the Ma"
tionl Association.
Gossip Concerning Chicago Horses and
Turfmen-Notes and News from
Abroad.

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The Ctnctnnau papers VIII pa4 s o",.,,ao1
IN +h,t civ and developed by Cincinnati
- .s,.o hu3 considerable to say regarding
xcnasffu h1a at Of
vanderbiIt's 6-year-old mare, Maud s. Tho;
Enu,fre, which is seldom far out Of the way IN
1n.t1era ncrtonfnr to the turf, confines itself to
maI'ess pcFaa'nAns ~ 80, -,,,naota1 .r,+h rho
giving tue news anu ks.sep s.,ss. and IN ths s,,c
heat that was trot,eo IN :ae.s a1 NJ ~ rat
no vii, ;, ,n air Of owl-ke wisdom some fucts thht
.as 1ns "-ea % do1en vrars apo-notably tho 2:17,6
.S % nes1er~procceds e to argue TINT, had the
driver Of Maud S been 20 disposed' her neat
conld hayc been made in 2:11 or thereubouts.
t.1 nn+ ,-,noss;h,e Tint the mare could have
II IS mol impossote .a. 49, ens ~. % .sa nanar ~
done the mile IN 1sa' ''uc' noe tne nlllanss ',
which the presents asap the fse'S 10 1an IN
the ,ae,s ns,,!t !, ,,i ssys; .na xnsa. scared st
$50 :5 gait. and the great third heat M eo1ld I'D
nave oecn naoe ID uen .h re ~, ny ATARI
mare gone nogr noe tne nr ,ha e nnnstei
miles Will prove tais: 1ne urst Was n'a b9 ~ 5 ~
seconds ihe second n ~ me lsn ~ -, ;,r;l..i nnd
the fourth IN a betore the neat WIS .lueteu u 81
Capt Stone was requested TO pave tne NATE aGt
out and, as the judges were Willing u t.lke Gown
the distnncea he dne ,1 1n,, .,,
to let Maud beat her 4-year.oid recoru DuL nos
Try 70 do better than @;lo. nen Isir 1e:S4ea M;s
the distance post ne looked oaek ang saw ar'h. u
must be doing better than 2:lo. nc sioWeu VI 70
obey ihs nc n4 L. ror nt @ hn sf
OF re ast .nd 1d hn ny sSc ecn nowc to
Btart ut top speed IS easy to see tat ncr !atns
would have been Ell or petter' instead OF
2:l5M." $780,.
Anything more remote from the trut9 fnan am
this II would be dtlncolt 70 conGet'e. % ~ il tne
tsst lace there was not beat IN when ss, en- Tue o
mares did rut come 10 ahe wire az ~:la gA't "
beat Maud was g9as ns he rate Of nile IN IL
sse git and then trot the arst quarter il sssee-
a6 .ne 81 Sy The
is that +'when naiF reacned the distance -posIhe
: looked back and sa" Trinket was Just coming
ter shn s:id, he slowed up to obey instructions
This accounts Tor tne time OF me mS. QUINTET.
Anybody who shw the race xnows & that Sn no1nlng f
could be further from the truth than this IL
: tie first place. the distance penalty' was
waived by all parties Interested be-
order that T1inkets chances for second money
might not bs endangered and tnat consequently
the driver Of no MARE es IN
the wire. But. supposing he had looked around,
and discovered Triuke1. lust coming into aa the
1;,:,e t it wonid have ~ taken for her to hive got
inside the distance. FROM the last turn to the
wire on the Chicago track is about lgO faet short
frotred a s:i6 gait from there home it would
have taken her Al least - seconds to have
Unpleasant pro-. iuence the Auanlas-lke char
acter Of the Cons.ne1Stars statement,
The faes se; rst t. tnat Mud s Tas o die not
1nnee; second, that Trinket did not save her dis
1iiuce; and, third, that the party who writes so
AT ali, and apparently did not even take The
trouble to hunt up and converse with Il man
who witnessed i before sitting down w. to lntsrm
ing event
T11E Tribune has no wish to detract one iota
1rom the fame which Maud s. has 50 Justly
gained BY her wonderful performance,
but It likes to sec the facts correctly
srnted. Not until after the race was
Qver cid Wiley Br1e5fleld. the driver OF Trfnker,
discover whut Others had seen before three scor-
tngs had been made for the trst heat: that
q s:1e gait o1n better, and that IT was the
Tremendous ,pace that made Trinket wobble
snS and 1ss 1fs beas @
Would have been beaten had he 50 desired. The
the mare been sent to that point in 1:06, and
then started for home at ner best clip, there is
e Sosot Sn oeng 5hs in thG m <s bcter bs ~9Sa saa
.wtplng out all previous records and setting a
1nark Tor the tr.,tteis OF the future to try at.
vas to p beat IT Six, the @ mare;s 4-year Old 1ral,
sud. etter sarisfyinx himself TINT this had been
acf0mplishcd. be stopped driving, and let his
norse inIsh at her csse
But, with iii tho talk as to what might have
been done, that has been made, the other feat
nre.s Of this extraordinary performance should
not be lost sight Of. III the first plucc, it was
the fustcst uiiic ever trotted by 6-year- H.
The .:1SE Of Midnight being previously the best.
Il WAS also the bcst third heat ever trotted,-
thai H. It cuuols the :,:lY!S made by Rarus
titled to the credit Of the best performance N
tnlrd neat- ~ was tne ., taatss. ,o nSaa etSa ~
5.11E ~ Goidsnith Mnid at Rochester in 1874
when she defeated American Girl and Judge
Fullerton, being the nearest approach 70 u
1ns - KloIs eunug1 - - ~ ns s sGdsv Tn.,. -. ~ III
+n,trnrs ~ +''@~~
And now that she has done 80 wonderfully
well. It IS the fashion TO tell whal sne w1 acconl
plish before the season ends: 100 mncR 1attn
should not be taken tn this talk+ It IS extremely
doubtful II Maud s. eyer aga1n strikes day ana
track equal 10 those Win which sne WIS favored
ut Chicago. and she certalnly can never
DO in liner CONDITION than e1e was