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CHAPTER Y. 



THE FEEE-FOE-ALL BATTLES DOWN THE LINE FEOM 



CLEVELAND TO SPRINGFIELD — GEEAT EACE AT HAET- 



FOED — 1877 A POOE YEAE FOE SMFGGLEE TAKEN 



TO CALIFOENIA — BEEAKS DOWN IN THE SPEING OP 

 1878 AND SENT HOME GOOD-BY TO SMUGGLEE. 



Feom Cleveland we came down the line to Buffalo, 

 and again met Goldsmith Maid, Judge Fullerton, 

 Bodine and Lucille Golddast in the free-for-all. We 

 met them, and we were theirs. The perfectly seasoned 

 old campaigner, Goldsmith Maid, though the race at 

 Cleveland was a hard one for her, had quickly rounded 

 to, and was that da}^ as good a mare as ever she Avas 

 in her life, trotting three heats in 2:16, 2:15J, 2:15 — a 

 performance rarely equaled even in these days. On 

 the other hand. Smuggler was decidedly off, not having 

 recovered from the Cleveland race, and lacking both in 

 vim and steadiness. He could do nothing in the first 

 heat, and in the first half of the second made a stand- 

 still break, being two distances out before he settled 

 again, after which he went home from the half-mile 

 post to the wire in 1:0 7 J, though eased up when the 

 flag fell in front of him. Goldsmith Maid won in 

 straight heats, in the time above given, and was again 

 the popular idoL 



This race illustrates a point in training that every 



