Daily Republican., 1881-07-30
MAUDs.
Ehe Fastest Time Ever Made In
Three Consecutive Heats.

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Three Consecutive Heats.
BY Request
! The greatest crowd that ever gathered
in the Belmont Driving Park congregat
ed there ON Thursday to witness tht
celebrated trottipg mare Maud S. beat
her own record, if possible, of .. 1917
About ten thousand people were in the
enclosure, and one would almost imag
inc they came in ten thousand different
varieties Of vehicles. The outskirts Ol
the track presented n confusion conglO.
meration of wagons, horses and people,
of all sorts, styles and descriptions.
After several other trials ofspeed were
over Maud S.the queen of theturf, walk
ed slowly on the track, the ribbons in
The hands of w. w. Blair, her driver.
After Jogging around the track for a
while She started for her first hea,
clearing the ground with speed
thought impossible for n horse few
years ago, and reaching the quarter
mile in 80 ,, the half in 05l., the three
quarters in l.;DI, and passing under
the wire st the end of the mile in 2 II,
without the Slightest indications of II
break. During the second trial she
made bad break as she came towards
home, and 2.l3. was run out on the
scorc-board. The third and last trial
was thorough success, the tirst-quar-
ter being trotted in }3'a, the halfiu ] 90
and the third quarter in 1851, and
down the track she came with the mile
made in 2.l2lg.
The track was rather heavy and the
regnlat ions miserable, great throDg
crow1ing on the coarse and almos,
blo"king the way of the mare. Mr.
BAR, her driver, remarked that if she
had not been worried by the crowd
pressing so close on her, she would have
done much better. AT the conclusion
uf the race Mr.. Butterworth presented
Il ma 'sive silver cup to Mr. Bair in the
name of the association as a token of
their appreciation of his services and
ability as the fastest driver of the
fastest horse in the world" A beauti-
full wreath was placed around the neck
OF the mare, Which she bore off the track
with evident pride ana satisfaction; a.
well she might, having trotted the three
heats faster than any horse
in the world. Colonel A. Loudon Snow.
den and Mr.. William Singerly acted as
the Judges OF the races.
Maud 5. was raised on the Kentucky
stock farm of Mr.. A. s. Alexander, and
was six years old last May. Captain
Stone, her present manager, bought the
mare for $500, though he did not con
slider her worth that price at the time.
Mr.. W w. Blair saw her at Chester
Park, and at once began training her,
and by the end Of the season she trotted
iIhalfmi'e in l.l31s. The mare figured
on tie turf several times beto4e she was
bought by Mr.. Vanderbilt for S2l, ,OOc.
In Chicago she made II mile in 2.l312,
on August 18th, at Rochester, she made
3 Ia, and again il Chicago, Oh Sep
teInber 10th, she made 2.lll!, closing
the season with the best time on record.
But the most brilliant work has been
lone this season at Pittsburg, July Il,
when the wonderful time of 2l0l. was
made, and AZ Chicago, on the 25th inst
she made her mile in Oil. Though in
the trial of Thursday she did not make
such speed, still in the three consecu-
i've heats the time is the best ever made
Dy her or any other horse in all the
world