54 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Along the back-stretch, Smuggler began to close 

 a gap, terrific as the pace was. After passing 

 the half-mile he drew dangerously near the Maid, 

 but it was noticed that he faltered a little. The 

 cause was not then understood, but it was made 

 plain when the patrol judge galloped up to the 

 stand with a shoe in his hand which had been 

 cast from the near fore foot. Around the turn 

 the stallion pressed after the mare, and down the 

 stretch he drove her at the top of her speed, 

 the thousands giving vent to their enthusiasm 

 by cheering and clapping hands. Smuggler 

 had his nose at the Maid's tail when she went 

 under the wire in 2.15^. Bodine was a good 

 third, his time being about 2.17, and Lucille 

 Golddust was fourth, Fullerton just inside the 

 flag. Smuggler's performance was an extraor- 

 dinary one. He trotted for something like three- 

 eighths of a mile with his equilibrium destroyed 

 by the sudden withdrawal from an extreme lever 

 point of a shoe weighing 25 ounces. Only once 

 before had he cast a shoe in rapid work without 

 breaking, and that was in his exercise at Belmont 

 Park. Keen judges are forced to admit that the 

 stallion would have won the first heat in 2.15 

 had no accident befallen him. Prior to this 





