XVll 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



BlOGKAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR 17 



CHAPTER I. 



Why tlie Book is Written— A Profession Without Teachers or 

 Text-Books— Our System of Training Original— Order of the 

 Work— Early Experiences With Horses— My First Trotters — 

 Dan, the Chestnut Saddle-Horse — Clipper — Rutland Girl — 

 George— Sealskin and Olive Dunton— The Great Smuggler 28 



CHAPTER II. 



The Great Smuggler — His Origin and Blood — How He was 

 Named — Given Marvin to Train — How Smuggler was Con- 

 verted to Trot — Weight -Carrying— Success at Last, and 

 Rapid Improvement— Fast Trials and Sale of Smuggler to 

 Colonel Russell— The Great Race at Buffalo, Won by Thomas 

 Jefferson— Adverse Criticism of " The Western Hoosier " 33 



CHAPTER III. 



Smuggler " Under the Weather"- A Famous Springfield Black- 

 smith Gets at Him — He Wins His First Race, Defeating 

 Wellesley Boy— George Wilkes' Compliment— He Wins the 

 Great Stallion Race at Boston— Record 2:20—1875 An Off 

 Year— Judge Fullerton Defeated and the Stallion Record 

 Lowered to 2:17 44 



