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Silver, 2.05^, is out of one of the producing 

 daughters of Aberdeen. 



Happy Medium 



Princess, who was born in Vermont, in 1846; 

 who was by Andrus Hambletonian, a descendant 

 of Messenger; who was owned by D. A. Gage 

 of Chicago, and trotted under the name of Topsy ; 

 who passed from him to California, where she dis- 

 tinguished herself on the turf; and who was in 

 rivalry with Flora Temple, made the acquaint- 

 ance of Hambletonian in 1862, when the country 

 was convulsed with war, and in the spring of 1863 

 a bay colt, bred by R. F. Galloway of Sufferns, 

 New York, appeared. This colt was named 

 Happy Medium, and he grew into a horse of 15.2. 

 He started in public once as a four-year-old, and 

 once as a six-year-old. In his last race he trotted 

 to a record of 2.32^, and when eight years old 

 was purchased by Robert Steel of Philadelphia, 

 for $25,000. When 16 years old he passed 

 from Cedar Park Stud to Fairlawn and died the 

 property of General W. T. Withers, in February, 

 1888. At one time the critics found much fault 

 with Happy Medium, said that he was too light- 

 waisted to sire a robust family, and that his weak- 



