Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Fighting for a $10,000 Trotter. [ARTICLE]

Fighting for a $10,000 Trotter.

A nice question, involving the custody of Young Volunteer, a trotting horse, that has suddenly increased in value from $1,200 to SIO,OOO, will shortly engage the attention of the courts of Orange county, N. Y. In the early part of the present season, Patrick Day, of Newburg, made a contract with J. O. Smith, by which the latter should take charge of the horse, he to have his winnings in return for the handling and training. He has won first money five times in nine races, second money three .times, and third money once. His driver brought his record down to 2:26 “without straining him,” and was so convinced that he could easily do six seconds better that he entered him for the $5,000 free-for-all race to come off at Fleetwood in October. At Poughkeepsie the owner and two men, who held a mortgage on the animal, lost considerable ir oney because he did not win the first money, and accusing Smith with having thrown the race, went, upon his refusal to deliver the hofse up, to the stable where the latter was kept, and took him away to their own stable. Smith is now about bringing an action to recover the horse, which he had entered to trot in a number of forthcoming races.