76 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



a length or so. Still Fullerton kept his terrific clip and 

 passed the half at a record-breaking pace, the Maid 

 close up and leading Smuggler who was just getting 

 under proper headway. Fullerton and the Maid raced 

 in double team fashion to the turn, with Smuggler now 

 getting right up with them. Fullerton was the first 

 to w^eaken, Doble sending the Maid by him under the 

 whip, but half-way between the distance flag and the 

 wire Smuggler nailed her, and beat her home b}^ about 

 a length in 2:15^ — the fastest heat ever trotted by a 

 stallion up to that day. 



In the second heat Smuggler got an even start, and 

 the rest had a stern chase from wire to wire, the time 

 being 2:17. 



In this race the judges allowed Doble to score most 

 unfairly with his great mare, and she had no equal in 

 wearing her opponents out on the score, they trotting 

 and she skipping and relieving herself. Tired of this- 

 I nodded for the word somewhat back at tlie fourth 

 score in the third heat, believing that it was, if any- 

 thing, better to take the chances of a bad start than 

 to submit the horse to the tiresome scoring in which 

 the judges showed no inclination to protect him. 

 Smuggler, however, got up to the mare in the stretch 

 (she having, in the meantime, helped herself by re- 

 peated skips, or rather gaining breaks), and just out- 

 finished her in 2:16f . The best judges (including the 

 representatives of the Spirit of the Times and Turf^ 

 Field andFcmn\ who were so directly at the wire as 

 to be in a position to judge, delared that Smuggler's 

 white nose crossed the wire first, but even if they had 

 crossed perfectly even he should have had the heat 



