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Park, Long Island, in search of a purchaser, and 

 it was there that the transfer to Colonel Russell 

 was made. Smuggler was foaled in 1866, bred 

 by John M. Morgan, near Columbus, Ohio, and 

 taken, when a colt, to Olathe, Kansas, where he 

 showed great bursts of speed in the hands of 

 Charles Marvin. He was a pacer, out of a pacing 

 mare by Herod's Tuckahoe; but as pacers were 

 not as much in demand then as now, he was 

 heavily weighted forward and thus converted into 

 a trotter. Iron's Cadmus was the sire of the first 

 great pacer, Pocahontas. At Buffalo, August 5, 

 1874, Smuggler started in the purse of $10,000 

 for free-for-all stallions, and although beaten 

 after winning two heats, made an enviable repu- 

 tation. After this he defeated such horses as 

 Mambrino Gift, Thomas Jefferson, and Great 

 Eastern and carried, August 31, 1876, the stallion 

 record down to 2.15^, where it remained for eight 

 years. The last time I saw Smuggler in public 

 was at the big fair held at Minneapolis in the 

 autumn of 1878, when he was led in front of the 

 grand stand, preceded by a huge placard, describ- 

 ing him as the champion trotting stallion of the 

 world. W. H. Wilson of Cynthina had charge 

 of him. In the stud Smuggler was not a pro- 



