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three-year-old Impetuous, 2:13, are out of daughters of Harold, 

 while Kremlin, 2:07f, Io, 2:13, Eizpah, 2:13^, Bussellmont, 2:12|, 

 and the great pacer Robert J., 2:01-|, are among the produce of 

 his sons, and the present queen of the trotting turf, Alix, 2:03f, 

 is out of a daughter of Attorney, by Harold. Harold died at 

 Woodburn, October 6, 1893. This horse never trotted in public, 

 but he was worked some for speed at Woodburn. As a six-year- 

 old he is said to have trotted the farm track in 2:40^, in which 

 mile it is stated he ' 'grabbed a quarter" and was not worked 

 again. He is the sire of forty-four standard performers, forty- 

 three of his sons have produced one hundred and eighty-one 

 standard performers, and forty- five of his daughters have pro- 

 duced sixty-seven standard performers. 



HAPPY MEDIUM was bred by R. F. Galloway, of Sufferen, New 

 York, and was foaled 1863. He was by Hambletonian, out of 

 the famous old campaigner Princess, 2:30, that trotted ten miles 

 in 29:10f and two miles in 5:02, and was the great rival of Flora 

 Temple, 2:19f . Princess was a bay mare, foaled 1846, by Andrus' 

 Hambletonian, son of Judson's Hambletonian, that was by 

 Bishop's Hambletonian, son of imported Messenger; and her 

 dam was the Wilcox mare, by Burdick's Engineer, son of Engi- 

 neer, by imported Messenger. She campaigned from ocean to 

 ocean, and her career is perhaps the most remarkable of the 

 earlier trotting days. When young she was mixed gaited, alter- 

 nately pacing and trotting, and was put to work hauling logs. 

 Then her owner traded her for a second-hand wagon, and finally 

 she reached the hands of D. M. Gage, of Chicago. He put her 

 into training, and she trotted some indifferent races as Topsy, 

 was sold, and taken across the plains to California. Here in 

 1858 she beat New York, taking her record of 2:30. Then she fell 

 into the hands of the notorious "Jim" Eoif, and the next year 

 was matched against the then crack trotter of California, Glencoe 

 Chief, at ten miles to wagon. These were golden days on the 

 coast, and this race was for the enormous stake of thirty-six thou- 

 sand five hundred dollars. Princess won easily in 29:10f, but the 

 Glencoe Chief party being dissatisfied, another race was trotted 

 the next day at the same distance for five thousand dollars, 

 Princess again winning. There was after this nothing on the 

 coast to race with Princess, and Eoff brought her to New York 

 to try conclusions with Flora Temple. Her first race with Flora 

 was at three-mile heats at Eclipse Course, Long Island, Flora 



