56 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



the whip persistently to get her home ahead of 1113^ un- 

 balanced trotter. In the second heat Smuggler broke 

 badly at the start and I laid him up, just dropping in- 

 side the flag, the Maid winning in 2:17^. With two 

 heats to her credit it was now a brown-stone house 

 against a peanut stand that the mare would win. The 

 third heat was a desperate one. Swinging into the 

 stretch I got Smuggler lapped on the Maid, and from 

 that home I did all I knew to keep him together and 

 3^et call forth his best effort, while Doble em- 

 ployed every resource of the master reinsman he is 

 to drive the mare over the score in front As the 

 Spirit put it : " At the draw-gate Budd had but a neck 

 the best of it, and now he nearly went wild in his 

 efforts to reach the goal first, and save the reputation 

 of his darling mare. At the distance stand she gave 

 it up, and Smuggler winning by a head only had be- 

 come famous. Time, 2:1 6^. This race has probably 

 never had an equal for wild and frenzied excitement 

 since the day of Fashion and Peytonia, Henry and 

 Echpse, and AVagner and Grey Eagle." Such a tumult 

 is rarely witnessed as occurred on the Cleveland track 

 that day, and in the wild storm of applause I know 

 there were many who cheered for Doble and the gal- 

 lant old mare for the great tight they made. But the 

 victorv, now seeminglv within our grasp, was very 

 nearly snatched away in the fourth heat. Smuggler, 

 though at the pole, was sent away rather behind, and 

 Doble took it with Goldsmith Maid running. Green 

 had Lucille Golddust lapped on the outside of Smug- 

 gler, and Fullerton was close up also. We were thus 

 soon in an " air-tight pocket." Going at a 2:16 gait a 



