538 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 



worried liiui by repeated scorings, aud when they excited him into 

 a break and he grabbed the unfortunate shoe from the near fore 

 foot, the hope began to rise that the star of the stallion had set. 

 The shoe was put on, the delay giving the IMaid time to get her 

 second wind, wlicn the scoring again commenced. Smuggler was 

 repeatedly forced to a break, and for the third time in the race he 

 grabbed oif the near fore shoe. Misfortunes seemed to be gather- 

 ing thickly around him, and the partisans of the Maid wore the 

 old jaunty air of confidence. Before replacing the shoe, Colonel 

 Russell had it shortened at the heel. It was a new shoe, and one 

 adopted by Marvin against the judgment of Piussell. The shell of 

 the foot was pretty badly splintered by the triple accident, 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 s. 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 m. 171^ s., and the hardest-fought race ever seen in the 

 world. The evening shadows had now thickened, and as the great 

 crowd had shouted itself weak and hoarse, it passed slowly through 

 the gates and drove in a subdued manner home." 



In the following week, at Buffalo, he was so badly used up from 

 the effects of his bruising race at Cleveland, that he was in no con- 

 dition to trot, and was defeated by the Maid in the fastest three 

 consecutive heats ever trotted; time, 2 m. 16 s., 2 m. 15i^ s., and 

 2 m. 15 s. At Piochester the Maid failed to put in an appearance, 

 and Smuggler won in three straight heats, 2 m. 15| s., 2 m. 18 s., 

 and 2 m. 19 i s. On August 24, at Poughkeepsie, he was distanced 

 in the first heat; and on September 1 , at Hartford, he trotted against 

 Goldsmith Maid, Judge Fullerton, and Bodine, aud won the first two 

 heats in 2 m. 15} s. and 2 m. 17 s. In the second heat he was very 

 far behind at the start, and the judges were much blamed in con- 

 sequence. Notwithstanding this, he closed up the gap, and made 

 a dead heat with the IMaid in 2 m. 1G| s. Goldsmith Maid then 

 took the last three and the race in 2 m. 171 s., 2 m. 18 s., and 

 2 m. 19 s., Smuggler pushing her closely in them all. At Spring- 

 field he trotted in the same company, but did not win a single 

 heat. Later in the season he trotted two races against the mam- 

 moth trotter Great Eastern, but acting badly, he lost them both. 

 He was then sent to the stud, where he bids fair to become a great 



