64 TEAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTER lY. 



THE GREAT RACE WITH GOLDSMITH MAID — THE DETAILS 

 OF THE MOST MEMORABLE RACE OF THE CENTENNIAL 

 YEAR A CLOSE CALL " S. T. H.'s " GRAPHIC DESCRIP- 

 TION. 



During the fall of 1875, and before the race with 

 FuUerton, I had been slowly reducing the weight of 

 Smuggler's shoes. I had gradually got the fore shoes 

 down to twentj^-four ounces, and though it was neces- 

 sar}^ to '* go slow," we were getting weight off and im- 

 proving at the same time, as the race against Fullerton 

 proved. There was at this time a great deal of non- 

 sense being written and talked of Smuggler, and a 

 Philadelphia newspaper man made a bold bid for first 

 place when, in commenting on the Fullerton race, he 

 declared that Smuggler " has been trotting with two- 

 found toe-weights until recently, when, by careful and 

 scientific handling, his driver has reduced them to one 

 pound." As a matter of fact. Smuggler seldom wore 

 toe-weights in races. AVhen his shoes were greatly 

 worn I sometimes had occasion to put on a four-ounce 

 toe-weight, but that was all. The weight was enor- 

 mous, but it was all in the shoe. 



The race at Cleveland, July 27, 1876, was so im- 

 portant an event — not alone in my experience as a 

 trainer, but in the history of the trotting-turf — that I 



