Show A GREAT HORSE IN HIS DAY The Remarkable Turf Career of the Trot tins Stallion Smuggler The recent death of the once famous stallion Smuggler and the less recent exploits ex-ploits of Nelson Maines disgraced but peerless prince of trotting sires vividly impress im-press one with the remarkable progress of the turf in a decade and a half About fourteen years ago Smuggler made a rec roc t z SMUGGLER 2153 ord of 215J and was crowned king of stallions an honor he held for eight years I Not long ago the stallion Nelson trotted a I mile in 210 and at present leads tho world Will the next fifteen years develop a stallion that can trot in 2 < J6jtP I Smuggler was foaled in 1866 at Columbus Colum-bus O His ancestors were not of unusually unusu-ally good blood and he attracted no attention I atten-tion until 1870 when he developed into a I three minute pacer His owner Josiah I Morgan then placed him in the hands of I I Charles Marvin who broke him of paping I by shoeing his forefeet with two pound shoes and in 1872 Smuggler could trot a mile in 2191 Robert Bonner refused to buy him but CoL H S Russell of Milton Mass was so smitten with the horses merits that he paid 80000 for him Smugglers Smug-glers fame grew rapidly Second after second was knocked from his record and in July 1S76 he defeated the great Goldsmith Gold-smith Maid by trotting in 216 In August Au-gust he was defeated by Goldsmith Maid at Hartford but established his great record rec-ord of 215J In ISiS Smuggler broke I down and retired to the stud but he was not a successful sire At the time of his I death Smuggler was owned by F G Babcock I Bab-cock of Hornellsville N Y |