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vent to their enthusiasm by cheering and clapping hands. 

 Smuggler had his nose at the Maid's tail when she went 

 under the wire in 2:1514. Bodine was a good third, his 

 time being about 2:17, and Lucille Golddust was fourth, 

 Fullerton just inside the flag. Smuggler's performance 

 was an extraordinary one. He trotted for something like 

 three-eighths of a mile with his equilibrium destroyed by 

 the sudden withdrawal from an extreme lever point of a 

 shoe weighing 25 ounces. Only once before had he cast 

 a shoe in rapid work without breaking, and that was in 

 his exercise at Belmont Park. Keen judges are forced to 

 admit that the stallion would have won the first heat in 

 2:15 had no accident befallen him. Prior to this season 

 Smuggler carried a 32-ounce shoe on each of his fore 

 feet, but now he seems to be steady under the reduced 

 weight. The scoring in the second heat was a little more 

 troublesome than that in the first heat. Smuggler left his 

 feet several times, and it looked as if he was going to dis- 

 appoint his owner and trainer. On the fourth attempt the 

 horses got away, the Maid in the lead. The stallion made 

 one of his characteristic bad breaks around the turn, and 

 all hope of his winning the heat was lost. Bodine and 

 Fullerton also were unsteady. Lucille Golddust did good 

 work and she was second to the Maid when the latter 

 went over the score in 2:17V;- Smuggler finished fifth, 

 Marvin only trying to save his distance. Goldsmith Maid 

 was distressed, but her friends were confident that her 

 speed and steadiness would carry her safely through. It 

 was almost dollars to cents that she would win. The 

 word was given to a good send off in the third heat. The 

 Maid had the pole, which advantage she did not surrender 

 although she went into the air around the turn. She was 

 quickly caught, and Doble drove her carefully along the 



