Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-08-20
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1881.
The Nervous Little Sorrel.

Deer Park correspondence Oh the fltNDuFB Iost
The afternoon mail had arrived on
Thursday and brought, mo other
things, the Pittsburg papers. When |
opened my copy of the Post and saw
what Maud S. had accomplished at the
new driving park turned to a gentle
man sat beside me and said: Maud ;
has beaten her record and has trotted in
10Y" "Y0u don't mean it ?" said he.
"Let me look at the paper" The gentle
man who said this was Mr. Hubert. OF
Cincinnati. lie is one Of the noted
men of that place, is worth u million or
two, and is largely interested in the
Gazette. Mr.. Hubert laid the paper
down and said.
81 owned Maud s. for a week once.
Captain j. Bugher, an old river man,
who came up the Monongahela river,
was a friend of mine. He was a great
herseman, and one day w went over 10
Il sale of blooded colts at Alexander
firm, at Woodbnrn, 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, BRIGHr-LooKING THING,
and / told Bugher he had better buy
her. He said he had bought enough
and / concluded l would take her my
self and 20 ! gave Sl45 for her. l pm,
her in with Bugher's co.'s, and they
were all sent to his farm. About a week
after this l went To the farm and asked
where my colt was. Bugher showed me
q little, nervous-looking sorrel colt
which had a piece OF string tied around
its neck. He said that that was my colt,
and that the string had been put on it
i'm order to distinguish it. 1t did no
look to me as if it was the colt 1 had
bought, and | said so, but Bugher was
positive, and let it 20 until the next
time we went cut TO the farm. | re-
membered then that my colt was a bay,
and not a s%orreI, and | told Bugher SO.
and he confessed that he had been mis-
taken; so | took the bay and Bugher
took the sorrtl, and that's where ! made
Il mistake. The sorrcl was Maud :. and
the bay was her sister. Maud has trot-
ted in 2.OS, and the sister can't trot I'm,
der three minutes. Bugher put the colt
into BARS hands to train when she was
three years old, and in a short time she
doae% magnificent work. Old man nugher
died, and his son gave orders to Btir to
seli the mare for $3.50. Bair came to
ne a dozen times and wanted mn to buy
her.. He said she was the latest thing
in the way of horseiie,h there was in
the country, but | did not care about
making the purchase. Afier a while
STONE BOUGHT THE la
for $3.50 and allowed Bair to manage
her. She showed So much speed that
Vanderbilt heard Of her and wanted to
hny her. Stone said he would sell for
$21 600, $4,000 for himself and 81 ,0U,
for Bair, provided the mare trotted in
2:lS. She vas put on the Lexington
track, and made the mile ia 2:l7$, which
was just DeXter's time. Vanderbilt,
bought her and put her in charge OF a
mar who could not do anything with
her. He treated her roughly and she
would not trot. Vanderbilt wrote to
Stone and said 81 bought that mare for
s21 coo, and she can't trot i'm 2:35. !
lA,tx .-n.t 80 -, ,,Jl,l ~ W.
.h!a!! ! do abnnt 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 IA few
weeks ago a man named Woodmansee,
who represented some II. Louis men,
went to Vanderbilt and offered him a
certified check for 100000 for Maud.
but Vanderbilt only laughed and said
she was not for sale-and that is tn,
nervous little sorrel colt that he would
not keep"-and Mr.. Hubert softly rub
bed his chin and looked at me with a
queer smile that spoke volumes.
"You said she trotted in 2:OS," said /
"do you not NEAR go
"No, SIR" said Mr.. Hubert, promptly
ut is we'll known that the mare can trot
in POI, and what is more, she has trot,
ted n mile On a regular track on two
different occasions. OF course, it was in
private and not on record. but she was
timed by cohpetGni linen with stor
watches"