THE MARE THAT WAS SHOD WITH GOLD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5291, 11 March 1878, Page 3

THE MARE THAT WAS SHOD WITH GOLD.

Referring to the mare that was recently shod with gold at Edinburgh, “ Man about -Town,” in the Sporting Gazette, says That mare has a history,; ; Her owner,..Jliss.iThomson.-is-an American heiress worth about half a million of dollar?. ■ She has .naturally been, ever;since she reached a marriageable age, the object of persistent attention on tb« part, of a crowd of needy fortune-hunters, and her life has in con-, sequence been rendered a.. burden to her. They drove.her nearly,-wild in New York, and she ;had a . very, narrow escape' of being hunted down. It was in, this wise. One of her admirers was > a clashing and ‘handsome fellow, but a terrible: scapegrace, and l she did hot care.'for 1 him but he amused her,,-and she found! it at last-very difficult to. gat rid of him! Shii had just purchased this mare, ■rind iu one of her mad, freaks .she -told: this gallant 1 suitor that fie',might have! her; hand if he beat, her iiuare, in a half-' mile! gallop, she,priding the ;mare.:herself. He accepted the -challenge,, and a. moment later| sbe repented of., it. However,: there was no help for it, and ; the race for.-a-wife had to come off. It was a neck-aud-affair, for the - stake’s were;heavy;,but the mare drew away:at. theifimsh, and won by a length. At is in gratitude for the victory which saved her from a.hnsband ithat ,Miss (Thomson, reqeptly had that man: shod with gold. Such is the story.which I,have; from iNew Yoric. Miss Thomson, I .believe, fancies that Jhe assumption, ,pf-. anseoceu-.-. tricity almost allied ,(q . madness is. her. best 1 defence against the fortune-hunters - who-pester-her here, as, much, as in America;: She wears shoes; herself which would' hardly -'disgrace a Lancashire wife-kicker,' iandr is- otherwise so attired, as, to shock anyone n with ’ ißsthetic ideas lof.the'igrace ofiiworiian'sa'costririie. ■ - She will boa, very Katherine; to win) bat possibly she may find the Petruchio who will tame her.’ I don't know whether-she is;worth the experiment:; but I know; a'good mriay men who. would make it for the sake of the half million of dollars..;;. -• /. i;;' • !-■ ( 1.! .'■ ■■!