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[MUGGLER was foaled 1866; bred by John 

 M. Morgan, who at that time resided near 

 Columbus, Ohio. He was taken by Mr. Mor- 

 gan to Olathe, Kansas, in August 1872, and 

 at that time was a confirmed pacer. He was very soon 

 thereafter placed in the hands of Charles Marvin who has 

 been his trainer and driver ever since and in about three 

 months he showed a mile in 2:30. His improvement con- 

 tinued to be very rapid, and in July 1873, he showed a trial 

 of a mile in 2:19 J. This performance created a great sensation 

 in trotting circles, but it was not generally credited. Several 

 parties of horsemen, however, visited Olathe, for the purpose 

 of seeing the famous horse, and he was finally purchased 

 by Colonel Tuffts, of Kansas. Soon after this purchase he 

 was taken to Prospect Park, N. Y., by his new owner, and 

 in the presence of experienced and accurate timers he was 

 given a public trial of three heats, one mile each, in 2:19! 

 2:2112:21 ; making the last half of the third mile in 

 1:09. Immediately after this performance he was purchased 

 by Colonel H. S. Russell, of Milton, Mass., for the enormous 

 price of $40,000. 



His first appearance in a race was at Buffalo, Aug. 5th, 

 1874, in a purse of $10,000, free for all stallions, where he 

 was pitted against Thomas Jefferson, Mambrino Gift, and 

 several others of the most noted trotting stallions of the 

 continent. He won the first and second heats in 2:221 

 2:20:}, going from wire to wire in the second heat in 2:18}, 

 but was finally distanced in the fourth heat. On Sep- 

 tember 14th, of the same year, he won the champion 

 stallion race at Mystic Park, Boston, in three straight heats, 

 in 2:23 2:23 2:20 ; which has stood as the best stallion 

 record, until Smuggler himself commenced to cut it down this 

 year (1876). First, at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, he won 

 a race over Judge Fullerton, in 2:17 J 2:182:17 2:20; 

 the second heat being a dead heat between the two. Again, 

 at Cleveland, July 27th, he won the " Free for All," beating 

 Goldsmith Maid and others. The Maid took the first two 

 heats in 2:15J 2:171, and Smuggler the next three in 

 2:16} 2:19J 2:17J; being the fastest five-heat race ever 

 trotted. On the following week, at Buffalo, he was defeated 

 by the Maid in the fastest three consecutive heats ever 

 trotted; time, 2:16 2:15} 2:15. At Rochester, the Maid 

 failed to put in an appearance, and here the " King of the 

 Trotting Turf" astonished the world by winning, in three 

 straight heats, in 2:15J 2:18 2:19J ; thus making a record 

 four and a quarter seconds lower than has ever been made 

 by any other stallion. He probably possesses as much 

 speed as any other horse, mare or gelding that has ever 

 appeared upon the trotting turf; and under favorable cir- 



cumstances it is not at all unlikely that he may, before the 

 end of the present season, wipe out the record of 2:14, 

 which at present marks the ultima thule of trotting time, 

 reached only by Goldsmith Maid. 



Smuggler is a brown or very dark bay horse, standing 

 15| hands high, with a blaze commencing between the eyes, 

 and widening out, until, at the end of his nose, it reaches 

 from nostril to nostril. Like all " converted pacers," he 

 wears a heavy shoe in front to steady his gait, and the 

 carrying of twenty-five ounces of iron on each of his front 

 feet must cause so severe a strain upon the muscles which 

 control their action, that we shall not be surprised at any 

 time to hear of his breaking down from this cause. At 

 Buffalo, he was so badly used up from the effects of his 

 bruising race at Cleveland, that he was in no condition to 

 trot, and was ignobly distanced. He rallied, however, on 

 the week following, and won the great race to which we 

 have heretofore alluded, at Rochester ; but on the succeed- 

 ing week, at Utica, he was again off. 



On August 24, at Poughkeepsie, he was distanced in the 

 first heat; and on September 1, at Hartford, he trotted 

 against Goldsmith Maid, Judge Fullerton, and Bodine, and 

 won the two first heats in 2:151 2:17. In the second heat 

 he was very far behind at the start, and the judges were 

 much blamed in consequence. Notwithstanding this, he 

 closed up the gap, and made a dead heat with the Maid in 

 2:163. Goldsmith Maid then took the last three and the 

 race in 2:171 2:18 2:19, Smuggler pushing her closely 

 in them all. At Springfield he trotted in the same com- 

 pany, but did not win a single heat. Later in the season he 

 trotted two races against the mammoth trotter Great Eastern, 

 but acting badly, he lost them both. 



He was got by Blanco, a son of Iron's Cadmus, and his 

 dam was a bay pacing mare brought from West Virginia. 

 This mare was for a long time reported as by Tuckahoe, but 

 subsequent investigations have exploded that story, and it 

 may safely be said that her blood is hopelessly unknown. 

 The dam of Blanco was by Blind Tuckahoe, a son of Herod 

 Tuckahoe. Iron's Cadmus was by Cadmus, son of American 

 Eclipse, out of a mare by Brunswick. This horse, Iron's 

 Cadmus, was the sire of the famous pacing mare Poca- 

 hontas, who, in turn, was the dam of Mr. Bonner's trotting 

 mare of the same name, by Ethan Allen. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that all that is known 

 of the blood of Smuggler is through his sire, Blanco, and 

 that from this source he inherits a good share of pacing 

 blood, mixed with thoroughbred; and that his dam was 

 also a pacer. National Live- Stock Journal. 



