50 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE, 



through the Mississippi, Kansas and Minnesota circuits^ 

 with a small and not very formidable " string." While 

 np in Minnesota, in the latter part of June, I received 

 a telegram from Colonel Russell to come East and take 

 Smuggler again. After the campaign of 1874 it was 

 natural that 1 should not be quite content with a lot of 

 2'AO horses, so I did not have any hesitation about 

 sending my stable home, and making my way to Bos- 

 ton. The campaign of 18T5 was not of very great 

 consequence. In August we started him against time, 

 2:20, at Boston, but father time was the winner that 

 day. In each trial he broke, though showing great 

 speed, and the best he did was 2:21. On the 4th of 

 September, at Beacon Park, Smuggler beat Nettie, 

 2:18, easily in comparatively slow time, the fastest heat 

 of the race being 2:22^. September 16th, at Hartford, 

 he beat Sensation in straight heats in 2:22^, 2:21^, 

 2:22. Then a match race was made for §2,000 with 

 Thomas Jefferson, who had beaten Smuggler, Mam- 

 brino Gift and others in the stallion race at Buffalo, 

 the year before. The race was trotted at Beacon Park, 

 September 30th. Smuggler won the first two heats in a 

 jog and then Jefferson was drawn, leaving him to walk 

 over for the third heat. This ended his performances 

 for 1875, and while he was not once beaten that year 

 the season's work was something of a disappointment, 

 for after the brilliant wind up of the year before we 

 expected to lower the stallion record, the honor of 

 which Avas shared equally by Smuggler and Mambrino 

 Gift. 



The season of 1876 was destined to be a busy and a 

 checkered one for Smuggler. Defeats awaited him. 



