St. Paul daily globe., 1884-08-25
Maud S.--Mr Bonner Tells ho,c He Came
70 BnY Her.

Maud S.--Mr Bonner Tells hOtU He Came
70 Bmu Her.
New York Sun, Aug. 90
A beautiful chestnut mare, with a long neck,
big brown eyes, and skin like satin was led
from the Grand Central depot few minutes past
2 yesterday afternoon, A colored man led her
with all the gentleness and care of gallant help
ing lady stile. He watched everyone
that came near, and seemed at ease only when
he had landed safely on Lexington avenue Be-
fore that nobody had noticed the mare except an
irreverent newsboy, who yelled out:
''Kn she go?''
But once the avenue, where the grooms
pass their leisure hours, there was change.
Every man with a big check suit and legs that
spread out at the knees exclaimed, s'Maud ~
impaired his discovery to the friends sitting on
the stoop with5Shim, and joined the train of
grooms, coachInhn, and stable boys who followed
the mare until she disappeared through the rear
do5r of Mr.. Robert Bonner's stables in West
Fifty-ffth street.
ssMaud S. is mine,'' Mr.. Bonner said in the
evening, ''the fastest and most beautiful crea-
ture in the world to-day. Ipaid Mr.. Vanderbilt
$4,000 for her, and sent him a check for that
amount to-day. Mr.. Vanderbilt has acted very
generously and literally all through and besides
selling me the mare for less than half what has
been offered him for her, he sent on all her har-
ness and trappings and the 45-pound sulky in
which she brought the record down to 2:09A.
Il had no idea that the mare could be bought
unil last Friday. Mr.. Vanderbilt kindly sent
his intimate friend, Mr.. William Turnbull, from
Saratoga to tell me that he purposed selling the
mare, and would let me have her in preference
to any one else. My brother went on immedi-
ately and concluded the transaction, and Maud
left by the Saratoga special at $40 this morning
in her private car with Grant, her attendant, as
her compafion. She ate once on the route and
came through all right
''Why did Mr.. Vanderbilt part with her?'
swell, it was generally thought that money
couldn't buy her; but the fact is, Mr.. Vandrbilit
was bothered to death with men who wanted to
trot her, and men who wanted to buy her, or
hire her for the season. 1t worried him all the
time, ard he made up his mind to let her GO
OF course he didn't want such asplendid animal,
and one of which he thought so much, to como
into the hands Of a whose only thought
would be how much he could make out of her.
That is why he preferred selling her to me, be-
cause he knew I'd never trot horse for money
Besides, If he did sell her to any of those pro-
fessonal horsemen, the public would still be-
lieve him to be her owner, and he would be no
better off, whereas between him and myself
there is, of course no, possibility of collusion.
''As to the rumor that Mr.. Vanderbilt sold
Maud because he was afraid she would be beaten
there is nothing in that. That is the last thing
any well informed man would think of Why
the day that the record was brought down to
2 a, Col. Edwards, president of the Gentle
mems Driving Club Of Cleveland, tele-
eraphed to Mr.. Vanderbilt: s'You have
no idea yet what that mare will do. Leave her
here another week, and you will see her trot in
2:07 or 2:OS, and every one believes it, The
fact is Maud has not been in thorough condi-
ton at all this season. She had but four weeks
training altogether prior to her last great per-
Torrance. The first week she trotted in 2:142f,
the second week in 2:12A, the third in 2:11H,
and the fourth in :092i. She would have gone
lower and lower if she had kept on. If Jay Eye
See lowers her present record, why, well have
to make her trot below him. I'm going to use
her little while here for my own pleasure, and
then shall send her up to Hartford, where she
viii be trained. and have chance TO do her best
in the fail"
''Suppose jay Eye See were to put the record
down below Mauds!'
"Well, have fully considered that. like to
have the fastest trotter, and should buy him
too if | could, put Maud into training at some
good track like Charter Oak at Hartford, and
give the public a free exhibition of what Maud s
can do. don't believe any horse will ever beat
her while she remains in her prime I've no in
tention of hiding her light under a bushel
want her to do all she can, only don't want her
to do 1t for money. But come and have look
ut her.
Mr. Bonner led the way along an iron cause
way running from th rear OF his house to the
stable. He pulled out big bunch Of keys, un-
locked heavy door and went in. white bull
terrier began TO bark uproarously, but soon saw
who it was, and wagged his tail instead. The
horses knew Mr. Bonner too, and whinnied in a
sleepy manner when he unlocked their boxes
Maud :. was in the first stall, lying down in two
feet OF soft bedding, with her body comfortably
wrapped up in warm blanket. This is old Dex-
ter stall, but the flies had bothered him there,
aud he had been removed to another. Mr.. Bon
ner said Maud was tired from her journey, and
must not get up. She didn't, but stretched her
long neck, opened her eyes, and seemed pleased
when Mr.. Bonner scratched her forehead. She
looked plump, her ribs were far from thin, and
Mr.. Bonner said she could stand good deal Of
training yet.
Right across the way were two big coach
horses. They had baskets on their noses to keep
them from eating up their bedding. They
seemed to wonder why the visitors spent so much
of their time with the little insignificant mare
across the way and stretched out their broad fore
] neaus lor similar marks OF faVOr. 1hey were
( scratched, too, and were satisfied.
| Rarus who trotted in 2:1tH, was next to
Maud s He was lying down, too, but jumped
! up quickly and obediently came out of his stall
/ when called.
old Dexter, the celebrated, was lying at ease
! in the last STALL He is twenty-six years old now
and does as he pleases Last night he wanted
| TO be ugly, so he lay back his ears, whisked his
tail, and bit the air. Finally, thinking he had
hurt his visitors feelings enough, he compro-
missed with FAINT whinny, closed his eyes, and
dropged off to sleep.
OF the seven great trotters who have in success
sion broken the record. Flora Temple, Dexter,
/ Goldsmith Maid, Rarus, st. Julien, Jay Eye See,
and Maud s, Mr. Bonner now has three in his
/ stable, Dexter, Rarus and Maud 5. But he says
1 he thinks the most of old Dexter.
! "He trotted in seventeen said he, ''ovel
heavy tracks. with heavy sulky and none of the
/ modern appliances No horse could ever come
| near him, none viii ever equal him, and none
will ever be as well known"
Turf, Field and Farm
| On Tuesday afternoon, just after seeing Maud
s. delivered tosMr. Bonner, we returned to Mr.
Case his S5 900 forfeit. Clingstone is out of the
way and 1t is the settled rule of Mr.. Bonner not
/ to allow his horses to trot in races. There is
/ nothing to go into match with Jay Eye See,
| and so there was no necessity for us longer &c
hold the money. Mr.. Cases challenge wa.
plucky, and he has the satisfaction of knowing
that it produced great commotion in the trot
| ting world.
Gossip .iboHt PAGERS.
A correspondent writing to Wilkes Spirit