106 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



2. 19 J. Smuggler again cooled oft" well, nibbling 

 eagerly at bis bunch of hay. The Maid was more 

 tired than ever, while Lucille Golddust showed no 

 signs of distress." 



Even yet, however, the race was in doubt. 



Fifth Heat. It was evident that the other horses, 

 or rather their drivers, had formed a combinatiou 

 against Smuggler. They worried him so much in 

 scoring that twice again he pulled off the shoe from 

 his near fore foot, and nearly an hour elapsed before 

 a start was obtained. "The shell of the foot," re- 

 lates the excellent writer in the Turf, Field, and 

 Farm, "was pretty badly splintered by the triple 

 accident, but the stallion was not rendered lame. 

 Misfortunes, however, seemed to be gathering 

 thickly about him, and the partisans of the Maid 

 wore the old jaunt}' air of confidence." The other 

 horses had an unbroken rest while Smuggler was 

 shoeing, so that they all appeared fresh when the 

 word was finally given. "Fullerton," says the 

 Turf, Field, and Farm, "went to the front like a 

 flash of light, trotting without a skip to the quarter 

 pole in thirty -three seconds," but Smuggler passed 

 him near the half-mile pole, kept the lead from that 

 point, and won the race, although Goldsmith Maid 

 came along with great speed on the home stretch, 

 forcing Smuggler to trot the heat in 2.17J, and 

 finishing a good second. 



Thus ended what was perhaps, all things consid- 

 ered, the best race ever trotted. Here were five 

 heats in 2.151 2.17J, 2.16J, 2.19f, 2.171, each one 

 being gallantly contested, and the result remaining 

 in the utmost doubt till the very close of the fifth 



