34 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



son of the great race-horse, American Eclipse, and the- 

 clam of Blanco was by Irwin's Tuckahoe, tracing be- 

 yond this to the blood of Bond's First Consul. Mr. 

 Morgan mated the Yirginia-bred mare with the Yir- 

 ginia-bred horse, and, forgetting the foaling-time, one- 

 morning in 1866 he unexpectedly found the youngster 

 in a paddock with his dam, and other mares. The 

 colt was endeavoring to secure maternal attention from 

 another mare when discovered by Mr. Morgan which 

 prompted that gentleman to exclaim, " Ah, you little 

 smuggler I " And thus, according to the story told by 

 Mr. Morgan when the horse was still obscure, he got 

 the name of Smuggler on his natal morn, and it stuck 

 to him. 



In 1868, Mr. Morgan sold Blanco to a man named 

 Tipton, and gave him two of his colts, one being 

 Smuggler. Tipton moved to Kansas, and about a year 

 later Morgan also settled in the " windy state." Tip- 

 ton failed to pay Morgan for the horses, and he took 

 back the whole outfit. He rode Smuggler under sad- 

 dle, worked him on the farm, etc., and, as he showed 

 some speed as a pacer, he started him in a pacing-race, 

 and he was driven by one Lamasney, one of the 

 Lamasney Brothers, the Western turfmen, who own 

 Banner Bearer, and other well-known horses running 

 on Eastern tracks. In that race Smuggler was dis- 

 tanced in 2:52, and subsequently Morgan canic to place 

 him in my hands as told at the opening of this 

 chapter. 



Mr. Morgan washed me to train him as a pacer and 

 take a half interest in him, which I promptly and em- 

 phatically refused, telling him that pacers were of no 



