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old classes, while Jefferson himself was awarded the first sweepstake 

 premium as a trotting sire. 



The Centennial year is noted for the wonderful achievements of 

 Goldsmith Maid and Smuggler. The former, in her nineteenth 

 year, trotted against time in 2 m. 14 s., her jirevious record, and 

 won six of the seven races she trotted that year, losing but one 

 race — that at Cleveland, won by Smuggler. The latter won for 

 himself a mighty name, as the only horse able to tear the laurels 

 from the brow of the peerless Queen of the Trotting Turf, and 

 secured the best record ever made by a trotting stallion. 



Smuggler is a brown stallion, standing 15 hands 3 inches high, 

 with a blazed face. He was foaled near Columbus, 0., in ISGG, and 

 was got by Blanco, a son of Iron's Cadmus, the sire of the famous 

 pacing mare Pocahontas, and his dam was a bay pacing mare brought 

 from West Virginia. The dam of Blanco was by Blind Tuckahoe, 

 a son of Herod's Tuckahoe. He consequently inherits a good share 

 of pacing blood mixed with thoroughbred, and when he was taken 

 to Kansas by his owner, in 1872, he was a confirmed pacer. He 

 was there placed in the hands of Mr. Charles Marvin, and under 

 his tuition developed into a most promising trotter. In an inter- 

 view with Mr. Cyrus Lukens, the well-known writer on horse sub- 

 jects, at Belmont Park, just before he ran with Judge Fullerton, 

 Mr. Marvin, when asked what special mode of training he had 

 followed to change this natural gaited pacing horse into the 

 wonderful trotter, replied : " At whatever gait Smuggler goes 

 he always is fast, but to keep him steady at a fast trotting 

 gait, it is necessary for him to have perfect confidence in Jus 

 driver." He also said that he had developed Smuggler's great rate 

 of speed, and had shown Col. Russell fast miles low down in the 

 twenties, before this gentleman had purchased the horse. He then 

 had returned to his home in Kansas. Some time after this Col. 

 Russell entered Smuggler in the great National Stallion Race, to 

 take place August 4, 1874, at Buffalo, and commenced fitting him 

 for it. About one month before the race, it became evident to the 

 owner that it would be necessary to secure the services of Marvin 

 to drive the horse. He arrived about two weeks before the race, 

 " when," said he, " I found that the horse had forgotten me, and 

 when we started into the race I doubted my ability to win that day 

 with Smuggler; I had not had enough time to regain his con- 

 fidence. But we passed the summer together, and I knew before 

 the notable stallion race, won by Smuggler at Mystic Park, near 

 Boston, September 14, 1874, that we could win, as well as I did 

 after it was over, because I then had the confidence of the horse, 

 and had him well conditioned. It would never have done to beat 

 nor abuse this horse. My success with him has been chiefly owing 



