STUD BOOK. 21 



HAPPY MEDIUM. 



The mother of this stallion was the renowned Princess, 

 that so frequently and so gamely disputed the supremacy of 

 the turf with Flora Temple, which is probably all the enco- 

 mium he needs at our hands. He was sold last season by Mr. 

 Fowler Galloway, to parties in Philadelphia, for a large price; 

 yet the investment will undoubtedly be exceedingly profit- 

 able to his present owners, as we understood he afterwards 

 covered one hundred mares at one hundred and fifty dollars 

 for the season. Mr. J. S. EdsaU, who has been the fortunate 

 owner of some of the very best stock ever produced in the 

 county, has a very fine bay stallion by him, out of a Black 

 Hawk mare. 



IDOL. 



Mr. Backman, the owner of this fine young horse, is the 

 most extensive breeder of trotters in the world. And inas- 

 much as, since the establishment of his large business at 

 Stonyford, he has almost monopolized the services of Old 

 Harnbletonian, and consequently has become the owner of a 

 large number of his colts, it will not be within the scope of 

 our little volume to give a detailed description of the many 

 which are worthy thereof. We have selected Idol, not only 

 as our favorite, but as the recognized head of his stud, to fill 

 the small space we have to spare. He is one of the best 

 proportioned animals in the county handsome, intelligent, 

 with fine limbs and gait. He is out of a mare by Harry 

 Clay; second dam said to be by Terror. Although Mr. 

 Backman may have evidence sufficient to prove the latter 

 fact, yet, notwithstanding we have known this grandam for 

 years, and always believed, from her appearance, that she 

 was well bred, it was never discovered that she had the 

 pedigree now claimed for her until after she became the 

 property of Mr. Backman. The dam of Idol was bred by 

 Lewis Tuthill, of Unionville, and was sold by him when she 

 was three years old for one hundred dollars. 



