SMUGGLER THE CHA^klPIOX. 4:9 



nothing but Smuggler's success, as in the morning they 

 had thought of Httle but Smuggler's chances and the 

 chances of others ; and even about the hotels and other 

 places of resort the evening was most enlivened by re- 

 counting the results of the day. The great triumph of 

 Smugo-ler, perhaps, is as much due to the firmness of 

 his owner as to the horse himself. Friend after friend 

 of Colonel Russell has for weeks importuned that 

 gentleman to change his driver. Doble or Mace should, 

 in their judgment, be chosen to handle Smuggler, in- 

 stead of a man concerning whom so little was known. 

 But Marvin had known Smuggler in Kansas, had 

 broken him from a pacer to a trotter, and Colonel Rus- 

 sell, while not doubting the ability of the drivers rec- 

 ommended, believed that the modest man from Kan- 

 sas knew more about that particular horse than any 

 one else, and refused to change. The result has proved 

 that his judgment was correct, and it is within the 

 range of possibility that no other v/hip would have 

 won the race with Smuggler." 



This race finished Smuggler's campaign of IST-i, and 

 he went into winter quarters the champion trotting 

 stallion of the world. He had thoroughly made up for 

 all his Grand Circuit reverses, and in a battle ro^^al of 

 champions had covered himself with glory. So ISTi 

 was, after all, a brilliant year for Smuggler and his 

 courageous and courtly owner, and the year was not 

 wholly unkind to the Kansas driver, who thus with due 

 diffidence made his debut among the master reinsmen 

 of the grand circuit. 



During the winter of 1871-75 I worked a stable of 

 horses in Kansas, and in the spring started out to trot 



