WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT SELLS MAUD S. 



one of the results of the agitation was the sale of 

 Maud S. to Mr. Bonner. 



Immediately after the transfer of Maud S. from 

 the Vanderbllt to the Bonner stable, I wrote as fol- 

 lows to J. L Case : 



*' I send you by this mall your check for $5000 

 which I have held as a forfeit for a race with any 

 trotter in the world. As Maud S., as you will see 

 by enclosed slip, has just passed Into the stable of 

 Mr. Bonner, there Is no chance for a race with her, 

 and there is no other horse before the public to 

 compete with Jay-eye-see. Mr. Bonner would like 

 to own your horse, provided he made a very fast 

 record. I have said this to you before and I repeat 

 it now. But he sees and I see that the retirement 

 of Maud S. depreciates his value for race purposes, 

 because there is nothing to go against him. What 

 will you price him to me to beat 2.09!, it being un- 

 derstood that I am to pay you $1000 for every 

 quarter of a second that you get below 2.09^? If 

 he should trot In 2.08 or 2.o8|, I am to claim option, 

 paying you $1000 for the same, and you are to be 

 allowed to fill what engagements you have made for 

 him, but are to keep him sound. I want you to be 

 reasonable and to weigh well the fact that, Maud S. 

 being out of the way, one great Incentive to excite- 

 ment Is gone. Should you name a price that would 

 be satisfactory, I should like the horse to go to 

 Providence or some other fast track and make the 

 lowest possible record. Please wire me on receipt 

 of this what you will do." 



From a letter, dated Racine, August 21, 1884, 

 and signed J. I. Case, I quote: 



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