120 RACEALONG 



HIDDEN HORSES 



The history of the turf presents the names of a 

 few horses that disappeared without the public ever 

 knowing what became of them while others faded for 

 a time and returned after their racing days were 

 over. 



The pacing mare Choral by C. F. Clay is included 

 among the lost ones. She made a record of 2:061/2 ^^ 

 1900. At that time she was owned by the Penn Val- 

 ley Farm at Morrisville, Pa. Early in the following 

 winter a number of the Penn Valley Farm horses in- 

 cluding Choral were shipped to Wellsville, N. Y. 



During the legal complications that followed the 

 transfer of the horses Jack Kinney, who had charge 

 of the farm, was locked up in Buffalo for a brief 

 period. Finally the proceedings were dropped. 



In 1901 a mare named Ononda Maid started at the 

 summer meetings at Syracuse, N. Y., and Nashua, 

 N. H., and made a record of 2:161/4- She was rep- 

 resented as being by Stillman and was said to have 

 been bred by a man named Jones in Wellsville, N. Y. 

 No questions were raised in regard to her identity 

 until the week of the meeting at Worcester, Mass. 

 At that time B. T. Birney dropped into town with 

 the horses of W. B. Dickerman from Mamaroneck, 

 N. Y. One morning when Ononda Maid was being 

 jogged Birney spotted her as Choral. In a few hours 

 the mare disappeared and was never seen again ex- 

 cept in a slow race at Bath, N. Y., later in the season. 



When the matter was investigated Birney stood 



