The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-25
THE STORY or JAY COULD.
@ ii. Kerner Talks About the Great Trot
thing stallion.

uOtSt 10 WIlllcfl, one OF the Interesting
chapters will be that which tells the
story Of the great stallion jay Gould.
Singularly enough, no accurate ac-
count of the ups and downs of this
noted old campadgner and trotting sire
has yet been published. Charles II.
kerner, whose property the horse was
foaled, told the story to The Sun re-
porter few days ago. Mr. Kerner
is one OF the few surviving members
of the old "sealskin brigade" who used
to drive trotters when upper Broadway
was the Bloomingdale road and ST
Nicholas avenue was known as Har-
lem lane. He began driving more than
40 years ago. and has known about all
the men and horses of note on the road
in New York from that day to this.
THE first horse that directed atten-
ton to Rysdyk's Hambletonian as a
trotting SIRE" said Mr.. Kerner. was
I Nutwood. Pierre Lorillard drove him
on the road before either George
Wilkes or Dexter had become known.
and he could beat the best horses then
in New York. You hear ii often said
that Wilkes was the first of HANDLE
tonian's get to make a reputation for
his sire, and sometimes Dexter is men
toned in the same way. That is a
mistake. however. They were faster
than Nutwood and much better known,
to be sure, but he came first. 1t was
tHTOuBH my acquaintance with the
horse and his owner that I came to
buy the dam of Jay Gould. 1 liked
/ Nutwood so well that 1 wanted to buy
brood mare and raise one like him.
Mr.. Lorillard put me in communi-
cation with the old-time Orange coun-
ty horseman, John Minchin, and in the
fall of 1863 he found the mare / wanted
in Lady Sanford, a daughter of See
ly's American Star that Dick Sears had
bought of Jimmy McMann and bred to
Rysdyk's Hambletonian. She was
fast trotter, but had gone wrong in
training while owned by McMann. Be-
fore the latter sold her to Sears he bred
her to Jupiter and she produced Lady
McMann, the dam of the fast mare
Bella, 2:23k, that afterward gave rise
to the bitter feud between Eph Sim
mons and George Wilkes.
'Minchin kept Lady Sanford for me,
and when he wrote the next spring
that she had dropped a fine bay horse
colt, / went to Goshen to see the mare
and foal. l intended to breed her back
to Hambletonian, but Mr.. Rysdyk's
terms were so unsatisfactory that l
became Disguised. and before returning
to New York l had traded my mare
and colt to Minchin for the horse then
known as Norwood a full brother to
Nutwood. giving $500 to boot. 1t was
an unlucky trade for me. Norwood
DIOht uOWH III TRAINING anu WAS HSNCA
of much account, although Dan Mace
afterward succeeded in patching him
up so that he trotted in 2:29% under
the name of Drift. Just about the time
that Norwood went wrong, Minchin
wrote to me that he had sold the Lady
Sanford colt for $1,000 to a man in
Fall River, and that was the last l
heard of him for several years. one
day in the fall of 1870, Dun Walton
came into the Office of the Clarendon
hotel and inquired for II. N. Smith. /
While waiting for Mr.. Smith, he re-
marked TO me:
"'Mr. Kerner, l have just seen the
fastest green horse in the world, and
I'm going to try to get Smith to buy
him
II was curious to know something
about this new wonder and I asked:
What is he, Dun, and how fast can /
he trot?'
81 don't know how fast he can go.
but / saw him on a trot the other day
at Beacon park, and he went faster
than / ever saw a trotter step before. ]
He is a son of Hambletonian; belongs /
to Stink Green of Fall River
1.-THE moment Walton said Hamble- 4
tonian and Fall River / knew that he I
had seen my colt, for there was then I
probably no other son of the Rysdyk 1
horse in all New England, and l re-
youngster to a man in Fall River. Mr.. |
Smith was at this time a heavy opera
tor in Wall street; too busy to dabble |
in horses he said, and Walton did not |
succeed in getting him to buy. / have
been told that Mr.. Bonner was on the
point of going to Boston to see the stall
lion when a big storm suddenly put an /
end to track work and precluded the
possibility of showing the horse or
making a sale.
BE this as II may Stink Green
came to New York the next summer
and Judge Brigham, as the horse was
then called went into training at the
him there, and he was all that Walton
had proclaimed him to be, a bloodlike
handsome stallion of truly wonderful
speed. Green entered him for the $1,000
purse at Buffalo in that year. the old
sporting man, Jim Irving, putting up
the entrance money, by report.
Those were the palmy days of Buff
falo Park. and a great crowd was there
to see the race, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk
and George Hall were in the judges
stand when the horses appeared. Dan
Mace. then at the zenith of his career,
drove Judge Fullerton. who was a big
favQrite. against the field. Judge Brig
ham was driven by an unknown reins-'
man. George Loomis, who was in the
employ of Green. Irving had backed
the stallion heavily and stood to win
a large sum If Brigham could beat the
favorite. When Judge Fullerton won
the first heat in 2:25A. Irving, II is
said, went to the judges and made the
claim that the horse he had backed
and whose entrance fee he had paid
was being pulled to let Mace win with
Fullerton.
There was great excitement. and be-
fore the next heat was trotted, Gould,
Fisk and Hall bought Judge Brigham,
paying Green $4,000 for him. They no.
titled Loomis that he was now driving
for new owners, and warned him that
If he failed to win the next heat he
would be taken out of the sullxy. In his
anxiety to get away fast. LOOMS drove
his horse to a double break at the first
turn. and for a moment II looked as
though Fullerton was going to distance
him IlIft Ri CHA N l.a1nhf ~ Last nd