Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-25
Interesting TurfNotes.

The Hartford Times of yesterday gave 8 picture of Maud S., the wonderful 6-year- r-old mare, by Harold, dam by Pilot, jr., owned by William H. Vanderbilt whose recent trot against time, in which she trotted 8 second heat in 2:114, has electrified hetrotting com munity. On Thursday she will try to beat this record the managers of Charter Oak Park offering special purse of S5,OOO for her and St. Julien to make the trial Mir. Vanderbilt paid $21, ,OOO for her short ly after her 2:173 heat as 4-year-old. The Spirit of the Times gives these impressions of her:
 chesnut. golden sorrel. 1514 to 15A hands, sh is not Harnbletontan. and by means 8 liar of the thoroughbred possibly breeding back to Bos- ton head of fair sze but clean cut and handsome ear of good size, but handsomely tapered and blOod.hke d5: good, good length & of @ nsck M with Coupling, well back, rather the spinal process long back of the coupling like St. Julien, her croup consequently too short for perfect lines of beauty or feet, as has 80 often been claimed. She fourteen ounce shoe and four ounce toe weight and light shoe behind. She tendon shin boots ward and quarter boots behind. She wears scapers and shin and pastern boots We remember 1 one her has overcome the Canuck tendency, through else her action at all we should say she had an of knee action; certainly much more than St. Julien SALE OF LUCY, THE CELEBRATED PAGER. Lucy, the celebrated side-wheeler, was | sold at Hartford on Monday to William Forbes, of Cincinnati who already is the own l CT of John w Hall and other we'll known horses.
 | Lucy is considered by many to be the fast est of the de-wheelers, but it is stated she has not always been driven to win In Spring l field her driver YVES changed and John Mur- l phy substituted, and she won the third and | fourth heats in fast time.
 It took twelve scorings before a start was made in the two-mile heat race at Buff | falo.
 The performance of John S. Clark, a son of Thomas Jefferson, in the 2:3O race at Buff falo, stamps him, what the Record has al l ready thought, horse of undoubted merit He was but length behind the winner in the | first two heats in 2:218.
 Dan Mace accomplished an extremely clev- CT bit of driving in the 2:20 pacing race at l Buffalo. It was great gambling race, it be- | ing estimated that not less than $20, 900 went | into the pool box on the result Ben Harnil- l ton, Turner's horse, was a big favorite | selling $1O0 against $25 in the field. Bay Billy, which Mace handled was looked upon | as the dangerous antagonist of the favorite | and the evident intention seemed to be to | cripple him by scoring him to death. In the several efforts to get away Bay Billy and 1 Billy Scott were found to be the only horses
 
 being pulled up behind. The judges at last | became disgusted and decided at the next at- tempt, which was the sixth, to give them the word, no matter what position they were placed in The decision was not publicly an nounced to the drivers, but Dan Mace, who happened to be jogging past the judges'stand overheard the remark, and coming down the stretch at the next attempt he gave Bay Billy his head, and before the balance of the field eomprehended the situation Mace had his horse at least four lengths ahead There was no let up to Bay Bi1ly's terrific stride throughout the heat, and when he had passed under the wire not horse had crossed the distance flag. The fiagman, however, neg lected to do his duty, and Billy Scott was re- ported to have saved his bacon. It was one of the veteran drivers best efforts, and se- cured for him unbounded applause The races to-day will be the 2:36 and 2:19 classes, trotting, and the 2:22 class pacers The running race will be the mile heats race for all ages, purse $4O0, and a mile and one half dash, purse $2O0.