70 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



nut daughter of Harold and Miss Russell. She 

 was a source of proud gratification to her new 

 owner, who drove her on the road. In 1880 

 she returned to her old trainer, W. W. Bair, 

 and trotted at Chicago in a race with Trinket 

 to a record of 2.13^, which record she reduced at 

 Rochester to 2.1 if, and at Chicago to 2.1 of. In 

 1884 her supremacy was threatened by Jay-eye- 

 see, who trotted at Providence to a record of 2.10. 

 Maud S. started the very next day at Cleveland 

 and lowered her record to 2.09!. Mr. Vander- 

 bilt, whose health was not good, and who did 

 not wish to be badgered, offered her through 

 William Turnbull to Mr. Bonner, and the sale 

 was made at $40,000. Other parties stood ready 

 to pay $100,000 for her for hippodroming pur- 

 poses, but Mr. Vanderbilt would not listen to 

 them. I was with Mr. Bonner when Maud S. 

 was delivered to him at his stable in West 56th 

 Street, and drafted the conditions under which 

 she started at Hartford for a cup and failed. She 

 was then shipped to Lexington and started under 

 the same conditions, November n, 1884, and re- 

 duced her record to 2.09^. I went to Lexington 

 with Mr. Bonner to witness the effort, and never 

 saw a man more pleased. It was his first record, 



