RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Brodhead and myself. The time of the warming up 

 mile was 2.26! , which the experts declared was too 

 slow. " All eyes," I quote from a published report, 

 " were fixed upon the handsome chestnut when she 

 came down the home stretch for the real effort, and 

 Bair nodded for the word. The first quarter is a 

 slow one, owing to the turn, but Maud S. trotted it 

 in 32! seconds. The wind now struck her in the 

 face and it took her i .04 to reach the half mile pole, 

 which was a second slower than the schedule pre- 

 pared by Bair previous to the start. At the three- 

 quarter pole the watches split in 1.37, and now the 

 queen was encouraged by a running horse driven by 

 Mike Bowerman, starting in behind her. As she 

 came strongly down the stretch Bair touched her with 

 the whip and she gamely responded. The judges 

 stopped their watches in 2.09!, thus making her 

 beat her record by half a second or about 22 feet. 

 The majority of outside watches made the time 

 2.09." 



Mr. Bonner himself caught the time 2.09 and so 

 did General Robinson who was by his side, and Mr. 

 Wm. L. Simmons who stood under the wire. Mr. 

 Bonner felt that he should have had the benefit of 

 the doubt, but to the public he made no complaint. 

 When there was a lull in the cheering, Mr. Wilson 

 removed his hat and addressed the crowd: 



" Ladies and Gentlemen, the animal before you 

 is the world-famous Maud S., whose fastest mile, 



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