. Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience . ^ had cursed thehoosier two years before at Buffalo, and had Smug-gler lost his feet in the desperate maneuver he wouldhave lost the race, and the cheers would have changedto imprecations. So fickle a thing is public favor, andupon so narrow threads depend victor\^ or defeat! That heat made it clear that a combination had beenformed to beat Smuggler. The pocket game did notYork, and tactics were changed. The trick now was. 60 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. to wo
. Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience . ^ had cursed thehoosier two years before at Buffalo, and had Smug-gler lost his feet in the desperate maneuver he wouldhave lost the race, and the cheers would have changedto imprecations. So fickle a thing is public favor, andupon so narrow threads depend victor\^ or defeat! That heat made it clear that a combination had beenformed to beat Smuggler. The pocket game did notYork, and tactics were changed. The trick now was. 60 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. to worry Smuggler in scoring, and he threw the shoethat had gone in the first heat again. There was morescoring and in a break Smuggler threw another the scoring and shoeing an hour was consumed,and the delay, it was believed, would rest the mare andthus favor her chances. When we got away Macerushed Fullerton out to set a killing pace, the ideabeing for him to fight Smuggler in the early part ofthe heat, while the Maid trailed, reserving her strengthfor a fight in the stretch, when it was thought shemight outfoot the horse after Fullerton had done withhim. The scheme was a complete failure. I had Ful-lerton beaten at the half-mile, and the Maid wasunable to give a serious challenge in the stretch, Smug-gler winning eas}^ in 2:17i. This was conceded to havebeen the hardest fought race up to that day, and theheats were the fastest five consecutive miles on shadows of evenino^ were fallino- when the lastcheers were re echoing on the ctrainingtrotting00marv
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