Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-09
aIes AND Sketfbes.
Maud s." and Goldsmith Maid
A CHAT ABOUT THEIR EARLY HISTORIES

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press gives the following interesting :
count OF talk on Jersey railway train
with the early owners of Maud So and
Goldsmith Maid'' One was W. S.
Hurlbert, a Cincinnati millionaire. who
owned "Maud 81 for a week and refused
10 keep her. He said: Capt. Bugher,
an old riverman who came up from the
Monongahela. was a great friend OF mime
He was fine judge of horses. and one
day we took a run down from Cincinnati
10 WOODBURY., Ky. where there was a
sale Of blooded stock in progress. Bugher
had plenty of money and looks Of the
stock he bought eleven oil the colts. Then
il began to rain. We put up our umbrella
and were just walking away when the
last lot on the catalogue ~as brought out
She was so bright and looked such good
animal that advised Bugher to buy her.
No, said he, I've bought enough After
a while concluded to buy her myself,
and got her for Sl45. told Bugher to
take nv filly to his farm along with his
and he did so. A week or ten days after
ward went down to his place and looked
at the colts, and Bugher pointed out ner-
vous looking little sorrel as mine. The
sorrel filly had piece OF string tied
around her neck. Bugher said that the
string had been tied around the animals
neck to distinguish my property from the
rest. | said it did not look to me like the
animal | had bought, but the captain was
40 positiye that finally | said TO more
about the matter. After | got home
looked in nv memorandum book and
found that the filly | had bought was
bay with white staron her forhead. When
| saw Capt. Bugher next time, showed
him the paper and he was satisfied there
was an error made. picked my lilly out
from among the rest, and not long alter
had her sent to my own stables. Ihat Is
where made my mistake in insisting
upon the trade The nervous, Scrawny-
looking little sorrel that bad been so
anxious to get rid of was Maud s." and
ms little bay was her sister. MAUD )"
has trotted III = 08 and what is more, she
has done it twice, having been timed by
experts with stop watches-but this was
in private But her sister cannot make
the circle in less than three minutes.
Capt Bugher put his sorrel in the hands
of an excellent trainer when she was only
three wears old, and she soon showed
what kind of metlle was in her. Old
Capt Bugher died before the colt had
done any extraordinary work, and his
son offered her to me for $3.50 | did not
take much stock in her appearance, so |
did not invest. After while she passed
into the hands of the well Known horse
man, Stone, and he kept her at work
under competent trainers, until finally
William II. Vanderbilt bought her for
c,1n nhn ~, 20, 600 IIa mt har in the
hands of man who had no control over
her and could do nothing with her. 1t
was said that Vanderbilt wrote an indg
uant letter to Stone. saying that the mare
could not trot in 80, whereas it had been
represented she could beat 2.20. Stone
REPLIED that if William H. would send
him the mare he would make her beat
ANYTHING on four legs in this country
Well, he did it. Since that time Wander
bilt has been offered the mares weight in
gold for her, and he has repeatedly re-
fused 800, 900 for her, to my certain
knowledge"
An old farmer who was listening to this
recital, introduced himself as John Mon
tague in Sussex county, n. j., the original
owner of goldsmith Maid" 1.-The Maidh
he said, WAS one o. worst pieces O. horse
flesh Eve ever seen, when she was a filly.
Just for exercise she used to Jump every
fence on the farm and make dash across
the meadows at a 'prrising speed. tried
take some o the mettle out o. her ploW-
ing with her. but couldn't make it work.
The dam o. the MAID was an Adballah
mare, an an awful good 'un at that. She
was half-sister to old llambletonian, and
she could trot her mile in 2.4O to an old
fashioned road wagon. bought her from
a fellow named Vernue, a hat peddler from
Plainfield, n. J. The sire of the maid
was a Hambletonian stallion owned by
Seeley Edsall. at Goshen. The Maid
was foaled in 1857. She was always as
wild as a hawk. | never knew she was
trotter until one day one o my dogs
took after her and she went round one o
the fields like the wind, After that used
to set the dogs on her once in while. just
to see her trot. One day Tom Bingham
and John Ii. Decker came t my house,
and after seeing the Maid trot they
bought her of me for $3.50 cash-Just the
price YOU saw Maud 81 brought when
She was youngster. William Denton.
known in those days as Jersey Biz
bought her next, OF Bingham and Decker
for 5000. Jersey Bill' sold her next
spring for 5000 to Alden Goldsmith. who
hired Bill Bodine of Middletown to handle
her. and she was SO wild she nearly killed
Bodine two or three times, and it took four
men to hitch her up. Finally. Bill con-
quered her and not long afterward she be-
came famous and Budd Doble and man
named Jackson OF Philadelphia, bought
her for $4,000 After she made her best
time they sold her to Henry Smith a New
York broker. who stills owns her. for
$50. 900. and she is now on Mr.. Smith