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winning, but at two-mile heats a week later Princess won in 5:02, 

 5:05. In their subsequent races Flora turned the tables, though 

 in a stubborn contest at two-mile heats Princess forced the then 

 queen of the turf to make the long unbeaten record of 4:50. 

 She was then retired from the turf, and after passing through 

 several hands became the property of R. F. Galloway, who in 

 1862 bred her to Hambletonian. 



Happy Medium was a bay horse, with star, snip, and two white 

 rear ankles, fifteen hands two inches in height, and was a shapely, 

 attractive horse, with excellent legs and feet. Some critics have 

 found fault that he was light barreled, and perhaps with some de- 

 gree of reason, but as a whole he was structurally much above the 

 average of his time. As a four-year-old he started at the Goshen 

 Fair and won, taking a record of 2:54, which he lowered to 2:51 in 

 1868. The next year, 1869, at Paterson, New Jersey, he distanced 

 Guy Miller and Honesty in 2 :34, 2 :32|, and these three perform- 

 ances, all winning ones, comprise his entire turf career. He was 

 in 1871 purchased at a very large price said to have been twenty- 

 five thousand dollars by Mr. Robert Steel, who placed him at 

 the head of his Cedar Park Farm, at Philadelphia. In 1879 he 

 was purchased by the late General W. T. Withers, and taken to 

 his Fairlawn Farm, Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained 

 until he died, January 25, 1888, at which time he had more 2:30 

 performers to his credit than any horse then living. The Happy 

 Mediums developed speed easily and quickly, and were remark- 

 able for the purity of their gait. The most famous of his get is 

 the mare Nancy Hanks, that lowered the world's record to 2:04 

 in 1892. The mares bred to Happy Medium never were as a 

 whole of good breeding, and in his early stud career they were 

 largely of inferior blood and quality. His fame has steadily 

 grown, and with ninety-two standard performers to his credit, 

 and his sons and daughters breeding on, the blood of Happy 

 Medium is justly held in very high esteem as a positive speed- 

 producing element. Fifty-one of his sons have produced two 

 hundred and thirteen, and forty-seven of his daughters have 

 produced fifty-nine standard performers. 



JAY GOULD was one of the most famous of all the sons of Ham- 

 bletonian on the turf and the sensational trotting stallion of his 

 day, and he now, in turn, takes a high place among producing sons 

 of the great father of trotters. This horse was bred by the late 

 Richard Sears, of Orange County, New York, was foaled 1864, 



