, 1881-09-09
OMned Maud ) fOc a Week.

The afternoon mail had arrived on
Thursday and brought. among other
things, the Pittsburg papers. When
opened the copy of the Post and saw
what Maud s had accomplished at the
new driving park, turned TO gentleman
who sat beside me and said: Maud .
has beaten her record, and has trotted III
lOI " ''You don't mean II? SAID he
Let me took at the paper, The gen
tlaman who said this was Mr.. W. IL. HUI
bert of Cincinnati. He is one OF the
most noted men of that place, and Is
worth a million OF two. Mr.. Hubert
laid tile paper down and said:
.'I owned Maud 5 for week once.
Can't. j. Bugher. an old river man. who
came from up the Monongahela river,
was a friend of mine. lie was great
horseman, and one day he went over to
n sale of blOOded colts at Alexander
! farm ut WOGdburn, Ky. Bueher bought
| eleven colts, and then II began 10 ram
! in torrents. We stood under an umbrella
| rs the last colt on the catalogue was
/ brought out. She was a bflSht-iooh-
! ing thing, and | told BuSher he better
! bnv her, He said he had bought enough,
| and concluded to take her myself and so
| gave Sl45 for her. [ put her IN with
! Bugher's colts, and they were all sent
to his farm. About q week after tins l
went to the farm and asked where my
| colt WAS. Bugher showed me little
nervous looking sOrrel colt, which had a
niece of string tied around its neck. He
| slid IT was nv colt, and that the string
| had been put on it in order to dlstln-
| guish ii. 1t did not look to me as II 1t
was the colt / had bought, and l said so,
but BuGher was positive, and let II so
until the next time we went to the farm.
| | remembered then that my colt was Il
bay and not a sorrel, and / told Bugher
so. and he confessed that he had been
mistaken. and that's where | made a mis-
take. The sorrel was Maud s., and the
bay was her sister. Maud has trotted
in 2:O7. and the sister can't trot under
three minutes. Bugher put the colt
under 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 or
ders to Blair to sell the mare for $500.
Blair came to me a dozen times ana
wanted me to buy her. He said she was
the fastest thing IN the way OF horse
flesh there was in the country, but
didn't care about making the purchase.
After awhile Stone bought the mare for
She showed so much speed that Wander
bilt heard of her and wanted to buy her.
Stone said he would sell her for sd 900,
so, 900 for himself and $1,000 for Blair,
provided the mare trotted i'll 2;lS. She
was put on the Lexington track and
made the time IN 2:l7a+, which was Just
Dexter's time. Vanderbilt bought heI
and put her in charge of a man who
could not do anything with her. He
treated her roughly and she would not
trot. Vanderbilt wrote to Stone and
said:
Il bought the mare for S2l 900, and
sine can't trot in 2:35. / don't want tC
be called an ass. What shall L dc
about it,"
Stone replied that if the mare wa,
sent to him to train he would make hel
the fastest trotter in the world, and hG
did it. Only few weeks ago. q mar
named Woodmansee, who represented
some st. Louis men, went To Wander
bilt and offered him Il certified check foi
500, 900 for Maud, but Vanderbilt only
laughed and said she was not for sale
And that is the nervous little sorre
colt that he would not keep" and Mr.
Hurlbert looked at me with a queer
smile.
''You said she trotted in 2:O8," said
''do you not mean in 2:lOL?"
mo, sir" said Mr.. Hurlbert prompt
ly. "It is well known that the mare car
trot in 2:0S, and what is more, she ha:
+ trotted n mile on a regular track on two
different occasions. OF course it was il
private, and not ON record, but she wa.
timed by competent men with stoI
watches,