80 TKAININa THE TKOTTING HORSE. 



himself, his progeny are b}^ no means a degenerate 

 race, and among them are winners of high merit. 



Smuggler was in man^^ respects a horse whose equal 

 I have not seen nor ever expect to see. Though his hock 

 action was not as free and exuberant as it might have 

 been, he had a beautiful roll of the knee in motion, and 

 his gait was direct and good. He went away easy and 

 frictionlesslv, and had abundance of vim and courage. 

 Could he have been balanced with light shoes, he would 

 no doubt have been a faster horse and a steadier one. 

 As it was, carrying his two-pound shoes it is not to be 

 w^ondered at that he sometimes '^tangled " badly ; that 

 in long drawn out races he had to contend with un- 

 usual leg- weariness ; that for these reasons he was some- 

 what unreliable, and that he did not always as quickly 

 recover from a hard race as did those whose gait was 

 less a matter of acquirement, and who did not require 

 such weight to balance them. He was a game and 

 resolute horse, and no man ever saw a trotter that 

 would do more on his courao^e in a fio:htino^ finish than 

 Smuggler. 



I last saw the grand old horse on the 5th of April, 

 1878, the day he was taken East from the Bay District 

 track. 



