100 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
driver pulls up fora moment, on his way back to 
the starting point after the bell has rung for a re- 
call, while the groom hastily sponges out the horse’s 
mouth and nostrils, adjusts the check-rein, takes up 
a hole in the breeching, or makes some other slight 
change in the harness. 
These are tense moments in an important race, 
especially if the contestants are known to be evenly 
matched, and if each driver is anxious that the oth- 
ers shall take no advantage of him. At such times 
a reputation for courage is of some service; it is 
always a temptation for one jockey to “cut out” 
another, or unfairly drive in to the “pole” ahead of 
him, just as one boat in a rowing race may take 
another boat’s water. Under these circumstances, it 
is the right of the driver, whose territory is invaded 
to keep on, even though a collision may result ; and 
a resolute man will do so, undeterred by the fact 
that spokes are flying from the wheel of his own or 
of his adversary’s sulky, as the two gossamer vehicles 
come together. “The quarter stretch looked more 
like a toothpick factory than a race-course,” was face- 
tiously remarked of ‘one occasion, when the driving 
had been reckless. 
With this explanation, I shall venture to give a 
short account of a notable race which occurred at 
Cleveland, in July, 1876, between the famous horses 
Smuggler and Goldsmith Maid. The latter was at 
this time nineteen years old, but she was thought to 
be invincible, and in this very year she repeated her 
best record, 2.14, first made by her in 1874. The 
Maid was, as we have seen, the fastest trotter from 
the time of Dexter, who achieved 2.174 in 1867, 
