42 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



he was well up with the party, having made up about 

 half of the disadvantage under which he started." In 

 view of this who can doubt that, had the starter pro- 

 tected the pole-horse, as it was his duty to do, Smug- 

 gler would have won the race? 



Smuggler was now dead tired. Want of condition, 

 endless scoring, and three hard heats had settled the 

 half-trained horse, and in the fifth heat, after twelve 

 scorings, he was sent away again far back, "and the 

 subsequent proceedings interested him no more."' The 

 heat was won by Thomas Jefferson in 2:23^, and 

 Smuggler was distanced in company with Pilot Temple. 

 Thomas Jefferson won the next two heats and the 

 race in 2:26^, 2:2S|^, and Mambrino Gift got second 

 money. 



I was bitterly and. unfairh^ criticised for the failure 

 of Smuggler to win that day. Men who bet their 

 money and lose are not the best judges of the driver's 

 motives or skill, and of course talk from that class is 

 not heeded. But all the reporters from Xew York to 

 Conewango knew they could have driven Smuggler 

 better than Marvin did, and with Doble, or Green, or 

 Dan Mace in the sulky, everybody was sure that 

 Smuggler could not have lost, and everj^bod}^ conceived 

 it to be his special duty to advise Colonel Russell what 

 to do in the matter. The amount of good advice the 

 Colonel received during the campaign of Smuggler 

 represented an aggregation of wisdom that it is sad to 

 think was thrown away. The Colonel Avas laughed at, 

 jeered at, and advised atbout the awful consequences of 

 keeping a great horse in the hands of " the Western 

 hoosier;" and I certainly would have been glad at sev- 



