Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-30
A CHRISTIAN rURFMaN.
An Infervietc scitIs Gen. Abe Bufoyd OF
AentHcRy His Success Ia Betting. and
Abhorreace Of P0ot Selling
[Chicago Times, July 25.

Ah <nteTTseU 0tsb zen. Abe BHf0Tu, O.
AemtmcTy His Success ia Betting, ant
Abhorrence Of Pool Selling.
[Chicago Times, July 25.
The tall, broad, and portIy form O.
Gen. Abe Buford, the well-known Ken
lucky turfman, was seen about the hall.
and corridors Of the Grand Pacific las
night. Talking to reporter for the
Times, the general said: "While L am 6
| turfman, am dead down on the poo
| selling. 1t is the pool box that hurts the
races. l think it just as proper to run
for the legally offered stakes as to con-
tend for any other prize offered at a fair
but don't say that 1t is right to harness
the horses in sin by betting. In
England, the Rev. Mr. King, who after.
| ward became an earl by inheritance, fall.
ing heir to magnificent stud of horses
| insisted upon running them, and was
permitted after some discussion, to re-
main in the church; and the queen, who
is at the head Of the church, sells num-
Der of blooded colts from her stables every
year. | was one of thirteen men in
Woodruff county who voted for Douglas
against Breckenridge, but when it came
to fight [ could not go back On my peo-
pie. So when l joined the church l
could not go back on the horse. My par
TALLY to the horse comes by inheritance.
My family is traced back to the duke of
Beaufort, descendant of John of Gaunt.
The duke Of Beaufort, my pater-
nal ancestor, was a great horse
man. His second son, who
came to America and settled in Virginia.
changed his name in hisgdisgust at the
division of the property to Buford. From
him came all the Bufords of Kentucky.
The Earl of Derby, who founded the Der
by races, married Margaret Beaufort, a
daughter of the Duke of Beaufort NV
brother was also turfman, and was the
first man who ever paid $4,000 for q
horse.'
In regard to his association with the
church, the general said that, although
he had run horses and bet money all his
life, he had always believed in the Lord
JesusNhrist. The fire of his younger
days came into his eyes when he declared
that, while he had bet and won money,
he had always been square" He was
always down on pool selling
and all other crookedness. He said that
his wife had often legged him to join the
church, and he would have done SO but
he did not want to part company with the
horse. There was tremor in the old
mans voice as he stroked the back of one
hand with the other and said that he
wished he had joined the church before
she died. Having lost both wife and
child, he said he had little to do or think
about, and that his lectures on the
Church and Turf" took up much time
that might otherwise hang heavily on
his hands. When he Joined the church
he intended TO let the subject drop, but
on being asked by lady to say some
thing at a festival, he said he could only
talk "horse." She was pleased with
the idea, and begged him to talk
"horse" for the benefit of the church
people, and he did so, being afterward
induced to talk on the same subject at
the Campbell street church, in Louis
vile.
"Have you won many large sums of
money al one time, general?"
81 won the Kennel stake with Inquirer
in New York, which was SIC, $50 in gold.
Once, with s40O won $4,000 Another
time, with small sum, L won $4,000,
and soon after $4,000, and | never lost
more than few hundred at any time"
"You are still breeding horses?'
eyes, and those raised are winning
money right along. Good Night and
Little Phil are both making handsome
winnings. Since l began lecturing and
got odd Marster' on my side the horses
have been making better success -