Evening journal., 1893-07-14
MAUD S MAY TRY AGAIN.


Her owner Has an ORer to Attempt to
Break Her Record on Cleveland
Couise-Mr. Bonner Talks of Ayres z 5
Performance.
From the advent Of the bicycle
sulky in July Of last year Robert Bonner
mas contended that the average trotting
speed is thereby accelerated from FIVE TO
six seconds. Mr. Bonners opinion was
not at first accepted by the great bulk of
light harness horsemen, but recently
many who at first held that two or three
seconds fally covered the difference are
very generally coming over to the views
expressed by the owner Of Maud s
Talking to a reporter Mr.. Bonner said
Il have some correspondence here
which bears out my contention that the
small wheel helps horse fully six
seconds Colonel William Edwards
president of the Cleveland Driving Club,
who has had very long experience
with trotters, writes me this letter
You will notice that we have offered a
purse of $4,000, no entrance fee, to any
horse, mare or gelding to beat Maud S 5
time of 0S4 made on our track to a
high-wheeled sulky. have always felt
that the time has never been beaten,
as l consider a bicycle sulky greatly
superior to the old fashioned wheels.
May l not ask you if Maud S would not
try and lower her record on our track at
the races to a bicycle?
w hiie know full well you would
not accept any purse for doing so, we
would gladly give silver cup or any
thing you might suggest. 1t is a good
time for the public to know the differ.
ence between a bicycle and an old
fashioned sulky. We have offered,
81 600. and l hope we shall get an entry
or two
rs. W. Giles, secretary of the Cleve-
land track, also writes, urging me to let
Maude S trot He says: If the queen
has anything like her old speed it would
forever settle any squabDle over the
speed of vehicles, which believe is fully
six seconds in favor of the new style"
What are you going to do about this
request, Mr.. Bonner; can you get the
mare readyg
1T is too early in the season, he said
''Maud was running out all last season.
I logged her at the farm the other day
and am much pleased with her action.
She is getting on good hard flesh, but l
cannot say anything definite about
| trying her against the record for at least
two months. She may not please me
even then. At all events il viii be well
into September before / could think OF
trying her
What do you think Of the 9 03i made
by the totter Ayres P with running
mater"
"Why, do not attach any importanc,
to a performance such as that, said Mr.
Bonner Nor do I think horsemer
| generally take much stock in It, I'll
| simply a question of how fast a hors,
can be pulled a mile and keep its feet
just like the boys who bang on and ruI
behind carriage II reminds me o
the time, now more than thirty year.
ago-tbe exact date was May 1S, 1862
and all the daily papers had column o.
more about it--when a team of mine So
a record which has never been beatel
since, simply because no one has tried
had Lady Palmer and Flatbush Mai
on Fashion track and they trotted tw
miles ia OFT, the second quarter of tn
second mile IN 33 1t was a great per
formsnce for those days, but there al
scores Of teams that could 60 out to-da
and beat it. Talking about this Ayre
P, see his trotting record is 2 %, 8
the difference is just what it used to b
years ago, from ten to twenty second;
Brown George, a horse that could no
trot alone in 2.40 could chase Dexte
home in about Q 20 when he was hooke
alongside a running mate - Chicag
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