44 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTEE III. 



SMUGGLER " UNDER THE WEATHER " — A FAMOUS SPRING- 

 FIELD BLACKSMITH 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. 



From Buffalo we came to lltica, starting Smuggler 

 in the $5,000 race for the 2:29 class, for which a field 

 of nine faced the starter. Charley Green had Fleety 

 Golddust in pretty good shape that day, and had little 

 trouble in winning, after Music had captured one heat, 

 in 2:21^. Smuggler was quite "off" from the effect of 

 his hard race at Buffalo. He acted unsteadily, but we 

 gave Fleety a pretty good argument in the third heat, 

 which she won by half a length, after a fighting finish, 

 in 2:23. Seeing that there was no chance of winning, 

 and that the horse was not himself, he was, by permis- 

 sion of the ji^dges, drawn after this heat. 



Smuggler was then taken to Springfield, where we 

 intended starting him August 18th. Here I had an 

 instructive little episode with a "horseshoe-maker." 

 Colonel Kussell decided to try this gentleman's shoe- 

 ing, and he went to work. I did not have much idea 

 of what he was going to do, but I afterward learned 



