MAUD S., 2:o8^. 81 



On the fourth day of the Grand Circuit meeting in 

 1885, Colonel Edwards had occasion to send another 

 despatch on the same subject. It read as follows : 



Race Track, Cleveland, O., July 30, 1885. 

 Robert Bonner, 



New York, N. Y.: 

 The Cleveland Association congratulates you most heartily 

 and thanks you most sincerely for allowing your peerless queen, 

 Maud S., to show the people how easily she beat her record in the 

 wonderful time of2:o8 3 4,on a track certainly one second slow, 

 having had a hard rain at midnight. 



Wm. Edwards, President. 



In the year that had elapsed between the two record- 

 breaking miles, Maud S. was sold by William H. Van- 

 derbilt to Robert Bonner for $40,000, and she had also 

 cut her record from 2 :09^J to 2 109^ in a trip against 

 time at Lexington, Ky., on November 11, Woodburn 

 Farm having given a cup for the performance in order to 

 make the time a record, no admission being charged at 

 the gate. In the season of 1885 Maud S. was, at the re- 

 quest of Colonel Edwards, sent to Cleveland for a su- 

 preme effort, and his telegram shows what occurred. It 

 may also be added that during the greater part of the day 

 both Bair and Robert Bonner's representatives hesitated 

 about starting the mare on account of the condition of 

 the track. There had been a heavy shower during the 

 night', and under such conditions a clay track does not 

 dry out very rapidly. Aside from the footing being soft 

 on the first turn, the day was perfect, and, as Secretary 

 Fasig was confident that Maud S. was in shape to reduce 

 her record, he gave Bair no rest until the mare was 

 hitched and on the track. The following is the report of 

 the performance as furnished the "Turf, Field and Farm" 

 by Hamilton Busbey : 



