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 ^j 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, 2.25I 

 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, 2.07J, 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 2.13J 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 



