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which flits by him. Smuggler goes over the 

 score a winner of the heat by a neck, and the 

 roar which comes from the grand stand and 

 the quarter-stretch is deafening. As Marvin 

 comes back with Smuggler to weigh, the ovation 

 is even greater than that which he received in the 

 preceding heat. Nothing like the burst of speed 

 he had shown had ever before been seen on the 

 track, and it may be that it will never be seen 

 again. Marvin had two reasons for going into 

 the pocket. In the first place he thought that 

 Green would pull out when the pinch came and 

 let him through, and in the second place he 

 erroneously supposed that Doble would push the 

 Maid down the stretch and leave him room to 

 get out that way. It was bad judgment to get 

 into the pocket, since, had the Maid won the heat, 

 the race would have been over ; but it must be 

 admitted that Marvin acted not without a show 

 of reason. In riding at the gait he was riding, 

 a man does not have any extra time to mature 

 his plans. The heat was literally won from the 

 fire. It w^as only the weight of a hair that turned 

 the scales from defeat to victory. Doble was 

 more deeply moved by the unexpected result of 

 the heat than by anything else which happened 



