Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
MAUD S.
A Story of the Days when she was "a
Nervous, Little SorreI Colt"

- OhO'I Oi tbc lays Wnen Sne was "a
Nervous, Little SorreI Colt"
Correspondence Of the Piltsburg Pest,
The afternoon mail had arrived on
Tuesday and brought, among other
things. the Pittsburg papers. When 1
opened my copy of the Post and saw
what Maud S. had accomplished at the
new driving park turned to a gentle
man who sat beside me and said:
"Maud 5. has beaten her record and
has trotted in '10I." "You don't mean
y" said he. LET me look at the pa
per-" The gentleman who said this
was Mr.. w. 5. Hubert, of Cincinnati.
He is one of the noted men of that
place, is worth million or two, and
is largely interested in the Cincinnati
Gazette. Mr.. Hulburt laid the paper
down and said:
81 owned Maud S. for a week once.
Captain ]. Bugher, an old river man
who came from up the Monongahela
River, was friend of mine. He was
great horseman, and one day we went
over to sale of bloOded colts at Alex
anders farm, at WOODBURY., Ky.
Bugher bought eleven colts and then
it began to rain in torrents. We stood
under an umbrella as the last colt on
the catalogue was brought out. She
was a pretty, bright-looking thing, and
told Bugher he had better buy her.
He said he had bought enough, and 1
concluded / would take her myself.
and so gave $l45 for her. / put her
in with Bugher's colts, and they were
all sent to his farm. About a week af-
ter this l went to the farm and asked
where my colt was. Bugher showed
me little, nervous.l looking, sorrel colt,
which had piece of string tied around
its neck. He said that that was my
colt, and that the string had been put
on it to distinguish it. 1t did not look
to be rs if it was the colt had bought,
and / said so, but Bugher was posi-
tive, and let it go till the next time we
went out to the farm. / remembered
then that my colt was a bay, and not a
sorrel, and told Bugher so, and he
| confessed that he had been mistaken;
so took the bay and Bugher took the
sOrrel, and that's where l made the
mistake. The sOrrel was Maud S.
and the bay was her sister. Maud has
trotted in Dos, and tire sister can't trot
under three minutes. Bugher put the
colt into BARS hands to train when
she was three years old, and in short
time she did magnificent work. Old
man Bugher died, and his son
gave orders to Bair to sell the
mare for $3.50. Bair came to Inc a
dozen times and wanted me to buy her.
He said she was the fastest thing in
the way of hOrsellesh there was in the
country, but l did not care about
purchasing. After awhile Stone
bought the mare for $3.50 and allowed
BAR to manage her. She showed so
much speed that Vanderbilt heard of
her and wanted to buy her. Stone
said he would sell for $1,000, $4,000
for himself and 1000 for Bair, pro-
vided the mare tTotted in 2:1S. She
was put on the Lexington track and
made the mile in 2:173, which was
just DeXter's time. Vanderbilt bought
her and put her in charge of man
who could not do anything with her.
He treated her roughly, and she would
not trot. Vanderbilt wrote to Stone
and said: L bought that mare for
81, 600, and she can't trOt III 2:35. l
don't want to be called an ass. What
shall L do about it," Stone replied
that if the mare was sent to him to
train he would make her the fastest
trOtter in the world, and he did. Only
lew weeks ago man named Wood
mansee, who represented some st.
Louis men, went to Vanderbilt and
offered him certified check for $780,
GOO for Maud, but Vanderbilt only
laughed and said she was not for sale
and that is the nervous little sorrei
colt that he would not keep7-and Mr..
Hubert softly rubbed his chin and
looked at me with queer smile that
spoke volumes.
"Nou said she trotted in 2:OS," said
/; do you not mean 2:10I?"
"NO, sir" said Mr.. Hubert. prompt
ly. "It is well known that the mare
can trot in 2:0S,. and what is more. she
has trotted mile on regular track
on two different occasions. OF course
1t was in private, and not on record
but she was timed by competent mer
with stop watches"