| Show I THE RECORD LOWERED I I At Cleveland yesterday Maud S lowered low-ered her record and her record waRftlie record of the trotting turf The sorrel mare is the wonder of the age and it is not improbable that she will again reduce the record She is i us yet a young mare being only eleven years old and in her I prime When Goldsmiths Maid got her j record of 214 she was eighteen years of j age and she had done more campaigning i than any animal ever on the turf It is I I possible that had Mr Bonner after his j purchase of her done with her as he has I with Maud l S she too would have had a j record down under the teens She has I one thing to her credit that marks her as J probably the greatest trotter that ever walked the I turf which is three hundred j i and thirty heats in UDO or better to her i credit Such a record shows an endur j anco almost beyond belief Maud S is 1 i the wonder and admiration of all who i I love a good horse but HIP Maid holds > the place of places in the heart jI j But the performance of Maud So at 1 I I Cleveland yesterday was wonderful for it is but eighteen years sincd Dexter made his record on the Fashion Course L 1 J ind but twentyseven years since Flora i Temple beat 2 20 at Kalamazoo In 67 i when Dexter made his record it was I houirht that another century would j lawn before it would be surpassed To lay there are a dozen or two horses with I letter records than Dexters and there I I are seven which have either equaled or beaten the Maids time People Peo-ple are now looking forward to lie time when two minutes will possibly be 1 made by some trotter and I buch an expectation is not without foundation 1 foun-dation Johnson a pacing gait has a record of 205 if we remember rightly I going to sulky while Westmont at the i ame gait but with a running mate has a record of 202 Westmont is a trotting bred horse too being by Almont IKl out of Alexanders Abdallah who was also the sire of Goldsmiths Maid Whenever a record has been lowered heretofore it has usually been l done by a ngw horse Not so with Maud K For one day it is true she had the palm taken from her Iii layEyeSee hut she won it hgain on the day following his victory The j I record of the Maid was heated l by Rams at San Francisco when General Grant returned j re-turned from his trip around the world and so it has been until there came along Maud S who is justly entitled to the ap i j IlationQlleen of the Turf She made the record and she lowers the record There was one other thing in connec tsen with this great trot yesterday and that was the absence of pool selling a thing that is a detriment to all genuine sport And will anyone say that the trot at Cleveland yesterday was without in I t = t c V C h P Nerestiaml dull Would there were more i like Mr Bonner I |
