RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



and was owned by J. T. Shackelford of Richmond, 

 Ky. Colonel H. S. Russell, finding that I was on 

 my way to Kentucky, asked me to try and buy 

 So So for him, and I opened negotiations, but the 

 price was more than I was willing to pay. The 

 daughter of Little Ida finally trotted to a record of 

 2.17^, and became a brood mare at Midway Park, 

 the breeding farm of N. W. Kittson at St. Paul, 

 Minn., and she is now the dam of five in the list 

 and of two speed-begetting sons. The most famous 

 horse owned by Colonel Russell at Home Farm, 

 Milton, Mass., was Smuggler, who defeated Gold- 

 smith Maid, and in the spring of 1883 I asked the 

 price paid for the stallion, wishing to use the informa- 

 tion in a sketch. The laconic reply was: 



" I am just back from California. I have for- 

 gotten what I gave for Smuggler, but, if my memory 

 does not deceive me, it was just about half what he 

 was worth. Pardon me, 



" Faithfully yours, 



" H. S. RUSSELL." 



In the fall of 1889 Colonel Russell paid another 

 visit to California, in the hope of finding a stallion 

 to suit him, but was disappointed. He stopped at 

 Lexington on his way back to Massachusetts, and was 

 very much impressed by Edgemark, who had just 

 trotted to a four-year-old record of 2.16. Edge- 

 mark was by Victor Von Bismarck, out of Edgewater 

 Belle, a noble-looking mare by Edgewater, she out 



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