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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 352, 22 April 1897, Page 8

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The stewards of the Akaroa County Racing Club have disqualified for life Charles O’Reilly for entering Homeward as a district horse at the recent meeting of the club at Little Rivet*-, Homeward is also disqualified for life. The rider on the occasion as well as a prominent owner, who, it is alleged, is the real proprietor of the animal, were acquitted of any complicity in the matter. > The owner of Maud S., the celebrated American trotter, gives some interesting particulars about his purchase of the mare. She was for sale as a two-year-old for 350d01, and to please his trainer, who liked her looks, although she was a very small animal, Captain Stone purchased her, and and named her Maud S., after his little daughter. For some time the mare would not take at all to the trotting gait, but by exercising patience; Bair, her trainer, at last got her to settle down. She for som time held the mile record with 2min Bfsec. , . .S