THE GREAT STALLIOX RACE OF 1874. 47 



Just before the race, Thomas Jefferson, the conqueror 

 at Buffalo, was drawn, as he went very lame in his 

 warming-up jog. The betting was heavy, and a sam- 

 ple pool will show how strong a favorite Mambrino 

 Gift was. This pool was sold in the city at the rooms 

 of Morse & Morris the night before the race, and is 

 said to be the largest ever made on a trotting race : 

 Mambrino Gift, 81,000 ; Smuggler, 8335 ; Thomas Jef- 

 ferson, 8330; Phil Sheridan, 8175; Commonwealth, 

 $150 ; Yermont Abdallah, 8110 ; Henry W. Genet, 

 845. 



Mambrino Gift had the pole, and getting away well 

 led to the quarter, with Sheridan second, but in the 

 back-stretch I did not have much trouble in giving 

 both the leaders the go-by, and got to the half in 1:11^ 

 with a nice lead. Smuggler won the heat well in hand, 

 and " Jock " Bowen, after a hot tussle, got Sheridan 

 home ahead of Mambrino Gift for second place. 



Phil Sheridan got the best of the start in the second 

 heat and he led to the half in 1:11, where I cut Smug- 

 gler loose, and went on and won the heat in a common 

 jog by about eight lengths from Sheridan, with the 

 favorite, Mambrino Gift, very badly beaten. The time 

 was 2:23, the same as in the previous heat. 



The next heat we went away pretty evenly, but 

 Smuggler at his best was slow to get into his stride, 

 and Bowen rushed Phil Sheridan to the front, taking 

 the pole. Mambrino Gift, also got away fast, but his 

 effort was "a flash in the pan," as he soon went into a 

 tangled break, and fell back. On the back-stretch 

 Smuo-D^ler o;ot into his bier swino^ino^ stride, and went by 

 the tired Phil Sheridan, m spite of all Bowen's efforts. 



