The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-02

~ was once the owner Of Maud s. for
week, =" said Mfr. W. S. Hubert OF Cincin
natl the other day TO your correspondent
| while speeding over the Erie railroad
When asked how he came into posses
sion of her, he said IAN old riverman by
the name OF Bugher went with me TO 9
sale OF thoroughbreds in Kentucky. Bug
her had lots OF money, and he bought
eleven horses. Just US we we're leaving 9
norse was nut up that struck my inncy and
| bid her in for Sl45. | made arrangement
with Bugher to have her shipped with hi;
horses. and q few days later when the
horres reached Cincinnati, Dugher pointed
out a sorrel bay mare NJ mine
said she did not look like my horse
out Bugher was positive, so said no more
about IL aud took the animal which wat
then unbroken. week later i found in
my memorandum book that the hcrse
had bought was bay, not sorfel, 80
sent my mare home. That's where | made
nav mistake, for the sJTrel was the after
ward famous Maud s., who has trotted in
20s, It is claimed, and who"
Pardon me, interrupted the old gentle
man who was listening to the narrative
"the best time she ever made was 2:l0 IA. v
"She has trotted mile IN 4:Uo, sir, con.
timed Mr.. Hubert, and, further than
that, she has done it twice to my personal
knowledge, but both times in private. She
WAS timed by experts with stop-watchss
The little bay | got in ex
change for Maud s. never trotted
under three minutes. Bugner saw thai
the sorrel was fine animal, and he put hei
in good hands. Finally she passed into
tue hands of Mr.. Stone, and he managed
her no vel that Mr. Vanderbilt heard oil
her and wanted TO buy her. She then had
trotted In 2:l7l-
(which was Just Dexter's timel" cried
the interested old gentleman before meH-
toned.
Exactly So" Mr.. Hubert went on, land
Mr.. Vanderbilt paid $40 600 for her. After
while she was managed i'll and failed to
beat $50. wherent Vanderbilt wsxed wroth
and wrote Stone a letter III not very choice
English Sione replied: Send me the
horse AID / wiil make her beat anything on
four legs in this country He got her
again, and when Vanderbilt next droye her
he said be wouldn't take $lO0 600 for the
mare" You seem TO be pretty much in
terested IN horse FLESH" Mr.. Hubert said,
turning 10 the old gentleman.
ooLDsMIrB MAID.
well, I'd ought TO be-" was the reply.
II was tie original owner OF Goldsmith
the dickens" was the surprised reply
OF the group.
"My name" said the old man modestly.
sis John b. Decker, aud live near Decker.
town, Sussex county, New Jersey. The
Maid was one of the worst pieces of horse
flesh ever saw when she was fliy. Just
for exercise she'd jump every fence on the
farm. / tried TO take some of the spirit
out of her BY plowiug corn with her. but it
was no use"
"Whsrs did you get the mother OF the
Major" asked some one.
"The dam OF the Maid was an Abdallah
mare, ard good one, too. She was half
sister to Old Hamiltonian,. and she could
trot mile in 2:3s to an old.fashioned road
wagon, for I've driven her in that time my
self repeatedly. The sire of the Maid WIS
q Hambetonian stallion owned by Seeley
Edsall OF Goshen, N. Y. The Maid was
foaled in 1858, and she was always as wild
as hawk. | sold her for $3.50 To Tom
Brigham and john III. Decker of Newburg.
William Denton, known in those days as
Jersey Bill" bought her for 500, and sold
her to Allen Goldsmith for $3.50 and
wagon. Goldsmith hired Bill B)dino, af
Niddletows, 10 train her for the track. IL
took four men to harness her, and she near
ly killed Bodino three or four times. But
after be conquered her she soon became
famous, and Bud Doble bought her for
SIS 600, and soiu her subsequently to Hen
~ Smith, the broker. for 80 900. That's
the early history of the Maid. | get of
here At Niddletown. gentlemen, but I'm
ght glad met ye," and with q cord al
andf5ake tue old gentleman left us.-[N.
Y. Telegram.