McFERRAN, WITHERS, AND WILSON 



predicted that it would become the greatest trotting 

 association in America. He was at one time its 

 President, and for many years was a director. Later 

 he moved to Cynthiana, where he established Ab- 

 dallah Park. When Smuggler was retired from the 

 track, Mr. Wilson leased him from Colonel H. S. 

 Russell, and made him a star attraction at Abdallah 

 Park. Mr. Wilson went to California in March, 

 1886, and this short dispatch from San Gabriel tells 

 the result: 



" Have accepted Sultan after examining him and 

 his get." 



A letter is before me, dated Cincinnati, March 21, 

 1886: 



" Sultan was shown to admirers here, and many 

 remarked that he looked like a thoroughbred. When 

 he is eyed by the Kentuckians, we can tell better 

 about that. To-night he goes to Cynthiana, and, on 

 Mr. P. S. Talbert's arrival from California, I shall 

 place him in his charge until August i. 



H. WILSON." 



Eva, Sweetheart, and Stamboul were sired by Sul- 

 tan. Mr. Wilson was a man of ideas and executive 

 capacity, and his energy compelled recognition. He 

 was active on the floor of the congress of the Na- 

 tional Trotting Association, and was a member of 

 the Executive Committee of the National Associa- 

 tion of Trotting Horse Breeders. The stallion in 



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