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natural gait, the pace, to the trot. Wearing twenty-four ounces on 

 each fore-foot to keep him at the trot, Smuggler defeated all 

 the best horses of his day, including Goldsmith Maid. He was 

 by Blanco, out of a pacing mare of unknown blood. As might 

 have been expected, he failed to found a great family, though 

 fourteen of his get are standard performers, and twelve of his 

 sons and seventeen of his daughters have produced thirty-eight 

 performers. 



TOM HAL. The original Tom Hal was taken to Kentucky, as 

 early, probably, as 1824, and as was the custom in those days, he 

 was called a Canadian, like all other pacing horses. The tradition 

 is that Dr. Boswell got him in Philadelphia and rode him home 

 to Lexington, Kentucky. Another statement is that he was taken 

 to Kentucky by John T. Mason, and this statement appears in the 

 advertisement of the horse for the year 1828. As the horse was 

 in the hands of William L. Breckenridge that year, and as his 

 advertisement was practically a contemporaneous record, we 

 must give the preference to the Mason representation. He was 

 a roan horse, as I understand, a little over fifteen hands high, stout 

 and stylish. He was very smooth and pleasant in his gait and a 

 very fast pacer. He was for some time in the hands of Captain 

 West, of Georgetown, Kentucky, and then passed to Benjamin X. 

 Shropshire, of Harrison County, and after some years he died his 

 property. 



BALD STOCKINGS, also known as Lail's Tom Hal, was a chest- 

 nut horse with a bald face and four white legs. He was foaled 

 early in the "forties," and was got by the original Tom Hal, and 

 his dam was by Chinn's Copperbottom. He was bred by Hig- 

 gins Chinn, Harrison County, kept for a time by John Lucas, 

 and owned by Mr. Lail, of the same county. He was one of the 

 prominent links between the old and the new, and was a fast 

 pacer. 



SORREL TOM was a son of Bald Stockings (Lail's Tom Hal) and 

 bore the same color and markings. He was bred and owned by 

 John Shawhan, of Harrison County, Kentucky. His dam was a 

 grey mare from Ohio, of unknown breeding. He was kept at 

 Falmouth, Indiana, the seasons of 1857 and 1858, and was very 

 widely known in that region as "Shawhan's Tom Hal." He was 

 quite a large horse, and to take the description as given him, 

 "he could pace like the wind." He was then taken back to 

 Kentucky, leaving a multitude of good colts behind him, among; 



