RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



" I enclose night key, an article that such an exem- 

 plary young man as yourself hardly needs. Maud S. 

 arrived here in fine shape and looks hearty and well. 

 Mr. Gordon has tendered the use of his Park and 

 ground." 



Under date of July 17 Secretary Wm. B. Fasig 

 wrote me : 



" Mr. Bonner tells me to write to you for in- 

 formation as to how to word my advertisements 

 regarding Maud S. He says the matter was ar- 

 ranged by yourself at Lexington, Ky., last fall, and 

 that he wants the advertisement in the same language. 

 Maud S. will beat the record sure. She went better 

 to-day, I think, than I ever saw her." 



The day advertised for the performance was July 

 30, 1885, and the crowd was very large and on tiptoe 

 with expectation. From a notebook used on the occa- 

 sion I glean: 



" At 5.15 P.M. Maud S. was jogged the reverse 

 way of the track, and then was allowed to step a 

 mile in 2.28^. At six o'clock Splan appeared be- 

 hind Mr. Gordon's runner, Dart, and the crowd 

 shouted, ' Bring out Maud S. We want to go 

 home.' The carriages along the rail were seven 

 rows deep, and there was not a vacant seat in the 

 stands. The flags hung to their masts. On the first 

 score Maud S. broke and was pulled up and came 

 back. Then she got the word all right and trotted 

 to the quarter pole in 32!, and had plain sailing 

 on the back stretch, reaching the half-mile pole in 



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