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me at the eleventh hour. I immediately came East 

 and got the horse just eight days before the race, and 

 it was said that up to that time he had not gone a mile 

 better than 2:40. He began to shape up fairly well 

 before the race, but was, of course, short of work and 

 was not keyed up, but even at that he would, I believe, 

 have won had he been fairly treated by the starter. 

 Besides, the horse was raw and uneducated, knew noth- 

 ing about scoring, and was all at sea in company. It 

 w^as impossible to get him up with the other horses, 

 and consequently at every start he got much the 

 worst of it. 



The field that started Avas composed of Thomas Jef- 

 ferson, " the Black Whirlwind of the East ;" Mambrino 

 Gift, the first stallion to trot in 2:20 ; Joe Brown, Pilot 

 Temple and Smuggler. Smuggler had the pole, but 

 getting away in the first heat far back soon lost it to 

 Joe Brown, who led at the quarter. Smuggler four 

 lengths behind the field. We were fully eight lengths 

 away from the leader at the half, but the Kansas com- 

 bination began j^o get on steam in the stretch, and they 

 told me afterward that the people shouted, "See 

 Smuggler come !" In the stretch Smuggler carried 

 Mambrino Gift to a break, and easily shook him off, 

 and the chestnut son of Mambrino Pilot was also 

 passed by Thomas Jefferson who came fast at the 

 finish, but w^as beaten a length by Smuggler in 2:22^. 



'Now Smuggler w^as made a favorite over the field, 

 and in the second heat I asked the judges to let us go 

 if my horse was going level, even though somewhat 

 back. At the fifth score we went awa}^. Smuggler 

 eight or ten lengths back, with Pilot Temple in the 



