The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-12
REDUCED HER RECORD.
MAUD S. MAKES A MILE IN 2:oo Ia
The Greatest Trotting Event In the His
tory of the Turf--Old Theories
Rained Mt Louisville Yester-
day-Those Present.

LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 1.-THE sla.e
is broken, and Maud s., the queen of tie
turf has made the fastest mile on
record Iimo-Quarter 32M; half, l:04;
three-quarters, 1877; mile, 2:00ll.
rHE GREAT PERFORMANCE.
Maud 5. has proved herself greater
mare than ever her lato owner, w. III.
Vanderbilt, or her present owner, Rob
ert Bonner, thought she was. Hiram
woodruff, the old-time trainer of trot-
ting horses, laid it down as an irou-clad
law that you could never have fast
mile after frost had struck the ground,
Last week ice formed repeatedly and
took the elasticity from the ground. A
sober-headed man like DR.. Herr, said IL
was too late for Maud :. to attempt to
do what no horse except herself had
ever done. Enthusiasts, however, pre-
dlcted that the record would be broken.
| The day was bright for November, but
the expert does not look for muscles to
be flexible when Indian summer
comes. There was a large gathering of
the very best people OF the blue grass
region AT the TAI" ground track. Hun
dreds of church-going people are pres
ent, among them several divines. Mr..
Bonner was gratiiied to SEQ a placard
conspicuously posted on the grand
stand, mo Betting Allowed" AT half
past eleven Bair came out behind the
Queen and gave her warming-up-mile
in 2:26A. Tho judges and
| timers were Maj. III. G. Mcdowell, Col
X. West and w. II. Wilson. In the OPP
posite stand Mr.. Bonner held his watch,
! ilanked on both sides by Gen. j. f. Rob
inson, Mr.. l.. Broadhead, Mr.. Richard
Anderson and Hamilton Busby. The
/ tal.
anee was made were written in the rec
ord book:
"Maud S. will start to beat her own
record of 2:09M, and should she beat the
record, Woodburn farm, where she was
bred, Will commemorate the achieve.
ment by awarding to her, through the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders as
ISOLATION, cup with the time made by
her engraved thereon"
THE RACE.
Bair logged around the track, went /,
the head OF the stretch, came down ant
nodded for tho word. The great mare
did not make single mistake. The tim
of the first quarter was 324 seconds
the half mile l:0i; the three-quarte
pole was reached in l:37, and here Nj
, Bowerman joined her with rune
hitched to a sulky. Tho finish wa
strong, and the judges stopped thei
watches at 2:00A. The majority of out
side watches made the time 200.
I THE SCENE,
when the queen returned to the stan
for Bair to weigh, was Understandable
t The crowd filed the quarter stretc
$ and cheered until their throats wer
husky: II was the greatest Performance
4 of the kind ever witnessed in the world
Q and the Kentuckians shouted as onl
= kontuckians can. Mr.. Bonner was cor
graduated ON every side, prominer
breeders like Gen. W. Il. Withers, Nj
d. Swigert and Mr.. Tod Hunter pres,
= ing forward to take him 10y tho hant
a When Grant, the colored groom, wa
cooling Maud out on tho lawn, scores
, ladies gathered around and asked f.
a the privilege of touching her ON til
+ nose. MIR. Bonner's first cougratulator
y dispatch was to Mr.. Vanderbilt. ri
mare will now be turned out for I'll
winter.