42 LIFE WITH THE TKOTTEKS. 



Chief went through that stretch like the wind — so fast,, 

 indeed, that when he came alongside of Fleety Golddust she^ 

 made a break, and Kansas won easily in 2:29. In this heat. 

 Smuggler, who had made a break, was distanced, thus put- 

 ting one of the fastest horses in the race out of our way. 

 The betting on this race was something enormous, all of 

 Mr. Green' s friends and the New York contingent backing- 

 Fleety Golddust. Smuggler was owned by Col. H. S. Rus- 

 sell, of Boston, and had shown some great trials, a mile in. 

 2:20 being one of them. The Yankees, with their accus- 

 tomed shrewdness, thought this was as good a chance as. 

 they would get to add a few dollars to their bank accounts, 

 and backed Smuggler freely. Tom Carpenter came along- 

 just before the race started, and Mr. Simmons arranged for- 

 him to quietly place a certain amount on the Chief. Tom 

 in his dry way said : "Eph, take my advice ; keep your 

 money in your pocket, and buy oats with it for Kansas to 

 eat." "You put the money on as I direct," responded. 

 Mr. Simmons, "and if I lose I will hustle around and see- 

 that Kansas doesn' t go hungry. " 



With Smuggler distanced it looked as though the race- 

 was over. The Chief won the third heat easUy in 2:25. In 

 the fourth heat, going around the first turn, which, by the^ 

 way, was very short and dangerous, McLaughlin accidentally 

 ran into me and knocked several spokes out of my wheel. 

 This caused a break, and when we turned into the back, 

 stretch Kansas was the last horse. My first idea was to lay 

 up the heat, but when the leading horses reached the half- 

 mile pole I could see that they had done all they wanted, 

 to in the trotting line, and so started Kansas for the heat. 

 Fleety was three lengths ahead of me at the head of th& 

 home stretph ; but half way to the wire Kansas was at her 

 head, and from there it was easy for him, the mile being in. 

 2:27, this making the second deciding heat for big money 

 that I had won that season, after meeting with an accident, 

 and losing a dozen lengths thereby. 



At this meeting I drove a race for Mr. Simmons that I 



