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2. The dam of the second son was by an 

 English Thoroughbred. 



3. The dam of the third was by a son of 

 "Smetanka." 



Here, we see that just one horse estab- 

 lished the great Orloff Stud Book — ^whose 

 registry numbers at least 1,000,000. 



The founder of the American trotting 

 horse breed was "Hamiltonian 10." The 

 number of his sons is, perhaps, 600. Out 

 of these 600, four, alone, have made sub- 

 stantial contributions to speed. These four 

 are: "Happy Medium," "Electioneer," 

 "George Wilkes" and "Strathmore." 

 The other sons produced numbers, but not 

 horses of value. An interesting fact con- 

 cerning the four distinguished sons is that 

 their greatness was sent on through only 

 one or two sons of each, except in the case 

 of "George Wilkes," who had four great 

 producing sons. 



"Pilot Medium," who carried the on- 

 breeding power of "Happy Medium," con- 

 centrated all the great qualities stored in 

 him into one son, "Peter the Great." 

 ' ' Happy Medium, ' ' with the aid of the dams 



