Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-18
MAUD s.
Talk With Nan Who OsCned the Great
Mare Week.

TO(E Wtth q man Wh0 OtCne0 nte 6re0t
Mare q Week.
The following conversation with man
who owned Maud s. week, communicated to
the Pittsburgh Post, from Deer Park, will be
interesting, especially as it refers to an offer
Heretofore rumored in this city by Commo-
dore Kittson, of $1OO, 900 for her:
The afternoon mail had arrived on Thursday
and brought, among other things, the Pitts
burgh papers. When opened my copy of
the Post and saw what Maud 8. had accom-
plished at the new Driving park, turned to a
gentleman beside me and said: 'Maud 8. has
beaten her record, and has trotted in 10Y !"
"You don't mean it?" said he. "Let me look
at the paper" The gentleman who said this
was Mr.. W. P. Hilbert, of Cincinnati. He
is one of the most noted men of that place,
and is worth million or two. Mr.. Hubert
laid the paper down and said:
81 owned Maud 8. for week once. Capt.
J. Bugher, an old river man, who came from
up the Monohgahela river, was friend of
mine. He was a great horseman, and one
day we went over to sale of blooded colts at
Alexander's farm at Woodburn, 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 pretty, bright-looking thing, and
told Bugher he had better buy her. He said
he had bought enough, and | concluded I
would take her myself, and SO gave $l45 for
her. I put her in with Bugher's colts, and
they were all sent to his farm. About week
after this I went to the farm and asked where
my colt was. Bugher showed me a little,
nervous-looking sorrel colt, which had
a piece of string tied around its neck.
He said this was my colt, and that the
string had been put on in order to dis
tingulsh it. It did not look to me as if it was
the colt had bought, and I said so, but
Bugher was positive, and let it 60 until the
next time we went out to the farm. remem-
bered then that my colt was 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
I made mistake. The sOrrel was Maud 8. /,
and the bay was her sister. Maud has trotted
in 2:OS, and the sister can't trot under three
minutes. Bugher put the colt under BARS
hands to train when she was 3
years old, and in short time she did mag
nifcent work. Old man Bugher died, and his
son gave orders to Bair to sell the mare for
$3.50. Bair came to me dozen times ard
wanted me to buy her. He said she was the
fastest thing in the way of horsefesh there
was in the country, but didn't care about
making the purchase. After while 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 $21 900,
$40, 900 for himself and 81 900 for Bair, provid-
ed the mare trotted in 2:18. She was put on the
Lexington track and made the mile In 2:17x
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:
"sI bought that mare for $21 900, and she
can't trot in 2:35. l don't want to be called
an ass. What shall do about it?'
"Stone replied that ii the mare were sent to
him to train he would make her the fastest
trotter in the world, and he did. Only few
weeks ago man named Woodmansee, who
represented st. Paul man, went to Vanderbilt
and offered him certified check for $1O0, 900 for
Maud, but Vanderbilt only laughed and said
she was not for sale. And that is 'the ner-
vous little sorrel colt that would not keep'";
and Mr.. Hubert softly rubbed his chin, and
looked at me with queer smile that spoke
volumes.
"You said she trotted in $685. said l; edo
you you not mean in 2:10H ?"
"No, sir" said Mr.. Hubert promptly. eft
is well known that the mare can trot in 2:08,
and, what is more, she has trotted mile in
that time on regular track on two different
occasions. Of course it was in private, and
not on record, but she was timed by compe-
ton< N, an with sfOn watches -