39Q SMUGGLER. 



Smuggler was quite a green horse, knowing notliing ahout bis business, and 

 liis driver was afraid to score in company witli the other horses. Owing to 

 these combined causes, he got off several lengths in the rear in the first heat; 

 but, as soon as he got his ponderous but i)owerful machinery in motion, he 

 out-trotted all his fleet opponents, and, amid the ringing cheers of the excited 

 multitude, won the lieat, by a length, from Thomas Jeflerson, in 2 :22i4. Again 

 <iid he get oft' fully eight lengths behind in the second heat, and was as far in 

 the rear after half a mile had been covered ; but then the mighty bay began 

 to exhibit his resistless speed and powerful stride, and, cutting down hia 

 rivals in front one after another, collared the game and fleet Mambrino Gift, 

 ^ho, apparently, had the race in hand. The next moment Smuggler had 

 passed him, and dashed under the wire, a winner by a length, amid thunders 

 of ai)i)lause, in the reduced time of 2 :20^4 — ^lis exact time from wire to wire, 

 as taken by watches in the judges' stand, being 2: IBj*^. In the third heat, 

 bad driving and a wretched start militated against Smuggler, and it was a 

 hopeless heat for him from the word "go," finishing, fifth and last, to Mam- 

 brino Gift in 2:2214. The fourth heat was still more disastrous, for, tired and 

 exhausted with needless scoriug, the grand horse labored hopelessly along, 

 tmd was distanced, in 2 :23,i4, b}' Thomas Jeft"erson, who also won the next two 

 beats and race in 2:2^%, 2:28V^. Although defeated. Smuggler was not 

 disgraced ; for a green horse, he had trotted the second heat faster than any 

 stallion had ever done before. In his next public appearance, at Utica, 

 August 12, 1874, one week after Buftalo, he was beaten by Fleety Golddust, 

 being drawn after the third heat, as he was quite out of order. At Spring- 

 field, August 18th, he won the $4,000 purse in five heats, beating ten opponents, 

 the fastest heat being 2:26;^:^. He was beaten at the same meeting by Kansas 

 ■Chief in the $5,000 purse, being distanced in the second heat, in consequence 

 •of his bad breaking, in the slow time of 2:29. At Mystic Park, Boston, 

 ■September 2d, 1874, he was beaten by Lucille Golddust, in 2:251;^, 2:22)4, 3:22 

 -and 2 :23, after he had won the third heat in the fastest time of the race. But 

 the latent powers and amazing speed of the mighty bay stallion were gradu- 

 .ally being developed, and on September 15th, 1874, over the Mystic Park, 

 Boston, he attained the height of his tame by winning the Great Stallion 

 Purse of $10,000 for the championship of America, beating Phil Sheridan, 

 Henry W. Genet, Commonwealth, Mambrino Gift and Vermont Abdallah, in 

 •2:23, 2:23 and 2:20, the time of the last heat being the fastest on record, and 

 equaling that made by Mambrino Gift, at Rochester, the mouth previous. 



Ill 1875, on the 4th of September, he opened his campaig-n, at Mys- 

 tic Park, in a race with Nettie by Ham])letonian, -which he won, 

 trottine: four heats, his time beino- 2:29i, 2:284^ and 2:25^ — the third 

 heat was won by Nettie, in 2:22^. 



On the 16th of September, at Hartford, Conn., in a race against 

 Sensation, he won in. three heats, in 2:224, 2:21-J^ and 2:22; and, on 

 the' 30th of Sei>teinber, at Beacon Park, he trotted a race against the 

 stallion Thomas Jefferson, wliich lie w^on, in 2:25.^, 2:28 and 2:40, 



