62 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



If what we saw with our eyes can really be true. 

 Smuggler first saw the light within the limits of 

 the Buckeye State. He journeyed West obscure 

 and looked upon as a menial. To-day his fame 

 is as wide as the world, and he wears the laurel 

 which once wreathed the neck of Goldsmith Maid. 

 Wonder not that the people of Ohio should swell 

 with pride when they point to him and his 

 history. His triumph was in the face of obstacles 

 which were truly formidable. 



"'How did you enjoy yourself?' queried the 

 president from the judges' stand after the tumult 

 had subsided. The lady, one of Cleveland's 

 fairest daughters, well expressed the general feel- 

 ing in her answer from the grand stand : ' I am so 

 glad and yet so sorry.' Glad that she had hailed 

 the new king and sorry that she had seen the old 

 queen lay down her crown." 



Smuggler, 2.1 5 J 



Colonel Russell first heard of Smuggler through 

 a letter that I sent him, and when he purchased 

 the stallion he came to the office of the Turf, 

 Field, and Farm. Captain W. S. Tough had 

 brought the brown son of Blanco (son of Iron's 

 Cadmus) from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Prospect 



