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Marshall Net. — A bay stallion, foaled 1873, and Massena, bay 

 stallion, foaled 1874. Both of these colts are from Patchen Maid^ 

 a very superior mare by Mambrino Patchen, second dam Lady 

 Eleanor, by Mambrino Chief, one of the best of his daughters. 



HAPPY MEDIUM. 



This is another stallion of distinguished parentage, and has some 

 fame of his own. He is owned by Robert Steel, Esq., of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Happy Medium is a very handsorae bay stallion, 15f hands high, 

 with two white hind feet, star in the forehead, and snip on the nose. He 

 was foaled in 1863, and bred by R. F. Galloway, Esq., of Rockland 

 county, N. Y. His dam was the celebrated trotting mare Princess. 

 She was by Andrus' Hambletonian, son of Judson's Hambletonian, 

 by Bishop's Hambletonian. 



Princess trotted in California on consecutive days, two ten-mile 

 races, both to wagons, winning easily an immense stake of $35,000, in 

 29:10f and 29:16:|-. She subsequently beat the famous queen of the 

 turf. Flora Temple, in a two-mile heat race, in 5:02. 



Happy Medium, when six years old, and with but eight days' train- 

 ing, trotted at Paterson, New .Jersey, against Guy Miller and Hon- 

 esty. In the first heat Honesty was distanced in 2:34|^, and in the 

 second heat Guy Miller was left behind the flag in 2:32^. This was 

 Happy Medium's last appearance on the turf. Since then he has been 

 used altogether in the stud. Mr, Galloway stated that before he dis- 

 posed of him, he had driven him quarters in 35 seconds, to a w^agon 

 carrying two hundred and fifty pounds. 



He was purchased from Mr. Galloway in 1871, for the sum of 

 $25,000, and removed to his present quarters, at the Cedar Park Stock 

 Farm. Although breeding has not been carried on to any very great 

 extent in that vicinity, yet during the period that Happy Medium has 

 been at the Cedar Park, he has brought in a revenue of nearly 

 $40,000, for service alone, independent of the mares bred belonging at 

 the Farm, according to the statement of his owner. 



At the time Happy Medium was purchased he was a young horse, 

 and but few of his colts had made their appearance upon the turf, and 

 was comparatively unknown, further than being the son of Hamble- 

 tonian and the famous California mare. Princess. 



The investment of $25,000 in such a horse, at the time, was looked 

 upon by a good many horsemen as being unwise. Since then, the 



