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Park, Long Island, in search of a purchaser, and 

 it was there that the transfer to Colonel Russell 

 was made. Smuggler was foaled in 1866, bred 

 by John M. Morgan, near Columbus, Ohio, and 

 taken, when a colt, to Olathe, Kansas, w^here he 

 showed great bursts of speed in the hands of 

 Charles Marvin. He was a pacer, out of a pacing 

 mare by Herod's Tuckahoe ; but as pacers were 

 not as much in demand then as now, he was 

 heavily weighted forward and thus converted into 

 a trotter. Iron's Cadmus was the sire of the first 

 great pacer, Pocahontas. At Buffalo, August 5, 

 1874, Smuggler started in the purse of ^10,000 

 for free-for-all stallions, and although beaten 

 after winning two heats, made an enviable repu- 

 tation. After this he defeated such horses as 

 Mambrino Gift, Thomas Jefferson, and Great 

 Eastern and carried, August 31, 1876, the stallion 

 record down to 2. 15 J, where it remained for eight 

 years. The last time I saw Smuggler in public 

 was at the big fair held at Minneapolis in the 

 autumn of 1878, when he was led in front of the 

 grand stand, preceded by a huge placard, describ- 

 ing him as the champion trotting stallion of the 

 world. W. H. Wilson of Cynthina had charge 

 of him. In the stud Smuggler was not a pro- 



