The daily gazette., 1881-07-25
THE NERVOUS LITTLE soRREL.
A story Of the Days When Maud q.
was BIT of Colt.

A Story Of the Days When Maud b.
was . BIT Of a Colt.
Correspondence Of the Pitisburg Post.
The afternoon mail had arrived on
Thursday and brought among other
things, the Pittsburg papers. When
Iopened my copy of the Post and saw
what Maud s. had accomplished. at
the new driving park / turned to a
gentleman who sat beside and SAID:
HMaud 3. has beaten the record and
has trotted in 'l0A." "You don't
mean lt?" said he. "Let me look at
the paper" The gentleman who
said this was Mr.. Hubert, of Cincin-
natl. He is one of the noted men of
that place, is worth a million or two
| a nd Is largely interested in the Gin
cinnati Gazette. Mr.. Hubert laid the
| the paper down and said: II owned
Maud s. for a week once. Captain J.
Bugher, an old river man who came
from up the Monongahela river was
a friend of mine. He was a great
horseman, and one day we went over
to a sale of blooded colts at Alex
ander's farm, at oodburn, Ken.
lucky. 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 l told
Bugher he had better buy her. He
said he had bought enough, and /
concluded would take her myself
and so gave $145 for her. l put
her in with Bugher's colts and they
were all sent to his farm. About
week after this 1 went to the farm
and asked where my colt was.
Bugher showed me little, nervous
looking sorrel colt, which had piece
of string tied around its neck. He
said that was my colt and that the
string had been put on it in order TO
distinguish it. 1t did not look to me
as il it was the colt l had bought and
said SO, but Bugher was positive
and let it 90 until the next time we
went out to the farm. l remember
then that my colt was bay and not
sorrel and told Bugher 80 and he
confessed that he had been mistaken;
so took the bay and Bugher took
the sorrel, and that's where | made
mistake. The sorrel was Maud s.
and the bay was her sister.
Maud has trotted in 2.0S and the
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. Cd man Bugher died and his
son gave orders to BAR te sell the
mare for $3.50. Bair came to me a
dozen times and wanted me to bug
: her. He said she was the fastest
thing in the way of horsefesh there
was in the country, but l did not care
about making the purchase. After
awhile Stone bought the mare. for $3.50
and allowed Bair to manage her. She
showed SO much speed that Vanderbilt
heard of her and wanted to buy her.
Stone said he would sell for $21 600,
$40, 600 for himself and $1,000 for
Bair, provided the mare trotted il
2.1S. She was put on the Lexington
track and made the mile in 2.17a
which was just Dexter's time. Vau-
derbilt bought her and put her il
charge of a man who could not do any
thing with her. He treated her rough
+ ly and she would not trot. Vanderbilt
wrote to Stone and said !: II bough
that mare for $21, 900 and she cam
trot in 2.35. don't want to be callee
an ass. What shall do about it s''
Stone replied that if the mare was sem
/ to him to train he would make her tht
fastest trotter in the world and he did
Only few weeks ago a man namet
, Woodmansee, who represented some
st. Louis men, went to Vanderbilt ane
offered him certified check for 500,
, 900 for Maud, but Vanderbilt onl!
t laughed and said she was not for sal,
and that is the nervous little sorre
+, colt that he would not keep"-and Mr.
Hubert softly rubbed his chin AM
I looked at me with queer smile tina
spoke volum,s.
, "You said she trotted in S.0S," sal,
1; "do you not mean 2.10t.
"No, sir" said Mr.. Hubert, prompt
ly. SIT is we'll known that the mar
can trot in 2.O8, and what is more, sh
has trotted q mile on a regular trac
on two different OCCASIONS. Ofcourse
it was in private, and not on record
, but she was timed by competent me
with stop watches"