The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29

VI - 'NhE v hEn
Nine Days Old, and Anerwsrd Paid
Nssriy $4,000 Tor = Third I-tsr.u-
FISK, Gould. and Hail Ruy Him for
$4,000 Last Days OF = Great Horse.
When tho history Of the trotting horse il
written. one OF the interesting chapters will be
that which tells the story OF the great stallion
jay Gould. Singularly enough. no accurate
account OF the ups and downs OF this noted old
campaiRner and %trottinR sire has yet been pub
lished. Charles II. Kcrner. whose property the
horse was foaled. told the story to THE SuH
reporter q few days ago. Mr.. Kerner is one Of
the few surviving members OF the old 'seaiskin
brigade" who used to drive ~trotters when
upper broadway was tho Bloomingdale road
and st. Nicholas avenue was known as Har-
lem lane. lie began driving more than forty
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 attention to
Rysdyk's Hambletonian as a trotting sire"
said Mr.. Kerncr. was Nutwood. Pierre Loril-
lard 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 IL often said that wilkes was tho
FIRST OF Hamblctonian's get to make a reputa.
ton for his sire. and sometimes Dexter Ia men.
TONED in tho same way. That Is q MISTAKE,
however. They were faster than Nutwood
and much better known, to I've sure, but he
came first. II was through my acquaintance
with the horse and his owner that I came to
buy the dam Of Jay Gould. I liked Nutwood so
we'll that I wanted TO buy a brood mare and
raise ono like him.
Mr.. Lorillard put me in communication
with the old-time Orange county horseman,
John Minchin, and in the fall OF 1903 he
found tho mare I wanted in Lady Sanford. a
daughter of Seely's American star that Dick
Sears had bought of Jimmy McMan and bred
20 Rysdyk's Hambletonian. She was II fast
%trotter. but had gone wrong in training while
owned by McMann. Before the latter sold her
to Sears he bred her to Jupiter. and she pro.
duced Lady McMnnn, the dam of the fast
mare Bella, 2:23La, that afterward gave rise
TO the bitter feud between Eph Simmons 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, I 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 | became
disguised. and before returning to New York
] had traded my mare and colt to Mlnchin for
the horse then known as Norwood, "A full
brother to Nutwood. giving $500 to boot. 1t
was an unlucky trade for me. Norwood broke
down In training and was never or much ac-
count. although IAN NiuGt NIttT"aTu tlt-
ceeded in patching him up so that lie trottcd
n a;29A under the name of Drift. Just about
wrote to me. that he had sold the Lady San.
ford colt for 81 900 TO a man in tall River.
and that was the last ! heard lea II him for hf Sy,
Walton came into the office of the Clarendon
M ao,,ins and nd l sr hmI,f for Sa IL r.H N; Smith, b. While
green M horse Sst i" the ! w ?%Ef aud ""d f fiS" going sHS 't to try
to get Smith to buy him..
II was curious TO know something about
t,hts new wonder; and asked; What is lie.
Dun. and how fast can no trotf
saw him on a trot the other day at Beacon
t hStt: a stsp be Sef Sen' fHs'H Is a fs son Of | f HSm ia% a
nian; belongs to ''Slink' Green Of FaIl, River
and rf Fan R RIvss / k Ms,io that t"i he H h"a ssen mp
q the Rysdyk horse in Al sew England, ara
youngster TO a man in Fall River. MIR. smith
buy, have been told that Mr.. bonner was
lion when a bic, storm suddenly put an end to
track, work and preclndel the possibility OF
Be this as it may. Slim Green came to
New York the next summer, and Judge Brig
training at the Prospect Park Fair Grounds.
| saw him there. and he was AZ thnt Walton
s San p sfsIiinn Of t RUN M t" DE; f il epeed. G 9p@a,
entered him for the S 1000 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 Buffalo Park,
and g great crowd was there to zee the race:
Dan Mace. then at the zenith of his career;
against the field, Judge Brigham was driven
by an unknown reinsman. George LOOMS. who
the stallion heavily and stood to win a. large
sum IL Brigham could beat the favorite. When
Judge Fullerton won the first heat in o;25a4.
Irving. H. iS Snil. went TO the Judges and made
the claim that the horse, he had backed and
S whGss to sn Itt Mace f %in Rs ha4 Fu p"ia WAS being
the next heat Vas trSited. Gould, Fisk. and
$4,000 for him; They notified Loomis that
heat he would lie taken out Of the sulky; In
his anxiety to get away fast, Loomts drove
and for a moment 1t looked as. though Fuller
ton was going to distance lin. But Brig
dous speed. overtaking Mace's horse in the
homestretch and winning the heat In ";?2;
nGis ,r wss fifth it his ' arss n nase. 0t a%G h saaal he'd
the best time on record for stations; Mace
tried again ht in n The hHrs next w,l heat aHst to win inhs With md fT he
Judge brigham defeated Judge Fullerton
purse of $4,000. After, this race his name
was changed to Jay Gould, md he went into
tired from the turf, in 1874. it was, with an
unbeaten record. lie never met the horse
that could defeat him, and after DOble took
him in hand he never lost u heat. Huntrcss,
Lucy. Thomas l.. Young, Bashaw, Jr;. Pilot
Temple, and Sensation were some OF the good
ones that he defeated.
After the death of Jim Fisk his interest in
the stallion was advertised for sale for 5000.
and Kerner wanted to buy II, but Doble asked
him not to do so. as he said he wished to Sc
cure the horse himself. DOble accordingly
purchased the Fisk Interest for $4,000. and
shortly afterward bought Gould's one third
for $40, OO0. Then II transpired thai, he was
q ~, II ~ GnnifI md fFIlIln nrnSl
Will Hall, the remaining owner.
Late one night Smith was told at his Firth nv
enue house that a plot was on foot for the for
mer trainer Of the stallion TO take the horse
secretly out OF the stable nj Bristol, Pa, and
keep him in his possession. Smith hurricdly
took a midnight freight train, for Bristol, and
before morning. Jay Gould had been, safely
removed to another part of the town, n dummy
being put in his place. Negotiations were
then opened with Hall for the purchase OF his