THE GREAT SMUGGLER. 33 



CHAPTER II. 



THE GREAT SMUGGLER HIS ORIGIN AND BLOOD — HOW HE 



WAS NAMED — GIVEN MARVIN TO TRAIN — HOW SMUG- 

 GLER WAS CONVERTED TO TROT WEIGHT-CARRYING 



SUCCESS AT LAST, AND RAPID IMPROVEMENT FAST 



TRIALS AND SALE OF SMUGGLER TO COLONEL RUSSELL 



THE GREAT RACE AT BUFFALO, WON BY THOMAS JEF- 

 FERSON ADVERSE CRITICISM OF " THE WESTERN 



In the summer of 1872, when I was engaged in 

 training horses, as stated in the last chapter, at Olathe, 

 Kansas, Mr. John Mason Morgan came to me with a 

 bay pacer to train. The story he told me of the 

 pacer's origin was this, in substance : He had formerly 

 lived, he stated, at or near Columbus, Ohio, and 

 had bought a pacing-mare that was brought by a 

 cattle drover from West Virginia. This mare had 

 been bought from a cavalryman at Clarksburg, West 

 Virginia, in or about 1863, by a Mr. Irwin, and from 

 him passed into the hands of the party from whom 

 Morgan got her. Two or three years later Morgan 

 purchased, through the same Mr. Irwin who had 

 owned the pacing-mare, the bay stallion Blanco. 

 Blanco was foaled in 1857, and was bred by Mr. Josiah 

 Morgan, of Ohio County, West Virginia. He was sired 

 by Iron's Cadmus, by Beach's Cadmus, thoroughbred 



