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the foot was badly splintered by the triple acci- 

 dent, but the stallion was not rendered lame. As 

 much as an hour was wasted by the scoring 

 and the shoeing of Smuggler, which brought all 

 the horses to the post looking fresh. Smuggler 

 had the worst of it, as he was the only one which 

 had not enjoyed an unbroken rest. Finally the 

 word was given for the fifth heat. Fullerton 

 went to the front like a flash of light, trotting 

 without skip to the quarter-pole in 33 seconds. 

 Smuggler overhauled him near the half-mile, and 

 from there home was never headed. The Maid 

 worked up to second position down the home- 

 stretch, the stallion winning the heat in 2.17^ 

 and the hardest-fought race ever seen in the 

 world. The evening shadows had now thick- 

 ened, and as the great crowd had shouted itself 

 weak and hoarse it passed slowly through the 

 gate and drove in a subdued manner home. 



"It was a race which will live long in memory, 

 one to which thousands will date as the beginning 

 of an epoch in their lives. Think of it. A first 

 heat in 2.15! and a fifth heat in 2.17^, with the 

 stallion record reduced to 2.16^ in the third heat! 

 A week ago no one would have believed it. Now 

 we keep asking ourselves in a dazed sort of way 



