42 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



Chief went through that stretch like the wind — so fast, 

 indeed, that when he came alongside of Fleety Golddnst she 

 made a break, and Kansas won easily in 2:29. In this heat, 

 Smuggler, who had made a break, was distanced, thus put- 

 ting one of tlie fastest horses in the race out of our way. 

 The betting on this race was something enormous, all of 

 Mr. Green's friends and the New York contingent backing 

 Fleety Golddust. Smuggler was owned by Col. H. S. Rus- 

 sell, of Boston, and had shown some great trials, a mile in 

 2:20 being one of them. The Yankees, with their accus- 

 tomed shrewdness, tliought this w^as as good a chance as 

 they would get to add a few dollars to their bank accounts, 

 and backed Smuggler freely. Tom- Carpenter came along 

 just before the race started, and Mr. Simmons arranged for 

 him to quietly j)lace a certain amount on the Chief. Tom 

 in his dry w^ay said : " Eph, take my advice; keep your 

 money in your pocket, and buy oats with it for Kansas to 

 eat." "You x)ut the money on as I direct," responded 

 Mr. Simmons, "and if I lose I will hustle around and see 

 that Kansas doesn' t go hungry. " 



With Smuggler distanced it looked as though the race 

 Avas over. The Chief won the third heat easily in 2:25. In 

 the fourth heat, going around the first turn, which, by the 

 way, was very short and dangerous, McLaughlin accidentally 

 ran into me and knocked several spokes out of my wheel. 

 This caused a break, and when we turned into the back 

 stretch Kansas was the last horse My first idea was to lay 

 up the heat, but when the leading horses reached the half- 

 mile pole I could see that they had done all they wanted 

 to in the trotting line, and so started Kansas for the heat. 

 Fleety was three lengths ahead of me at the head of the 

 home stretch ; but half way to the wire Kansas was at her 

 head, and from there it was easy for him, the mile being in 

 2:27, this making the second deciding heat for big money 

 that I had won that season, after meeting with an accident 

 and losing a dozen lengths thereby. 



At this meeting I drove a race for Mr. Simmons that I 



