190 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



ness was due to the vitality-sapping campaigns 

 of his dam. The Happy Mediums had good 

 action but were termed soft-hearted. His great- 

 est triumphs were achieved at Fairlawn. The 

 fastest of his 87 trotters is Nancy Hanks, dam 

 Nancy Lee by Dictator, who became queen of the 

 turf when Budd Doble drove her at Terre Haute, 

 in September, 1892, to a record of 2.04. This 

 record held for two years, when Alix beat it by 

 one-quarter of a second. Milton Medium, 2.25!, 

 one of the 66 producing sons of Happy Medium, 

 is the sire of Lou Milton, dam of Lou Dillon, 

 1.58^. The greatest producing son of Happy 

 Medium is Pilot Medium, gray horse, foaled in 

 1879, sire of Peter the Great, 2.07^, and 96 other 

 trotters; also sire of 21 pacers. The sons and 

 daughters of Pilot Medium are also speed-pro- 

 ducers. Maxey Cobb, an entire son of Happy 

 Medium, reduced the stallion record to 2.13^ in 

 1884, and held the championship for five years. 



Dictator 



Clara was the name of a black filly, bred by 

 Jonathan Hawkins of Orange County, New 

 York, sired by Seely's American Star, and foaled 

 in 1848. Her dam was a brown mare with four 



