. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 21, 1907. Happp Medium was at this farm nearly eight years. He was seldom driven, receiving nearly all his exercise under saddle ridden by Mr. Gallagher. Wm. T. Withers, of Kentucky, then purchased him from Mr. Steel for $25,000. Happy Medium sired SS trotters and 6 pacers, 69 sires of 284 trotters and 151 pacers and 7S dams of 100 trotters and 37 pacers. His blood is highly thought of by all horse breeders and none more so than the late Mr. Steel. After he sold the horse he paid $29,500 for Epaulet 2:19 and Admi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 21, 1907. Happp Medium was at this farm nearly eight years. He was seldom driven, receiving nearly all his exercise under saddle ridden by Mr. Gallagher. Wm. T. Withers, of Kentucky, then purchased him from Mr. Steel for $25,000. Happy Medium sired SS trotters and 6 pacers, 69 sires of 284 trotters and 151 pacers and 7S dams of 100 trotters and 37 pacers. His blood is highly thought of by all horse breeders and none more so than the late Mr. Steel. After he sold the horse he paid $29,500 for Epaulet 2:19 and Administrator 2:29%, to breed to the Happy Medium mares. This last named sire was an excellent investment, one of his daughters pro- duced Ashland Wilkes 2:17%, sire of John R. Gentry 2:00%, and many others. For Pedlar by Electioneer, Mr. Steel paid $5,000 as a two-year-old. He purchased Don Monteith for $2,500, and $23,500 was the amount he paid for Antevolo 2:19%, bred by the late Jos, Cairn Simpson. Mr. Steel sold this horse shortly after for $40,000 to some horse breeders in Michigan. Woodnut 2:16%, a chestnut horse bred by Peter Coutts of Mayfield, sold to the late By Holly of Vallejo, who trained and raced him, and was then sold by him to Mr. Steel for $16,000. Woodnut died the property of Mr. Gal- lagher on a farm close to Cedar Grove Stock Farm last year. In a few years this beautiful place, which once occupied so primonent a place in the trotting horse world, will be divided and sold for residence pur- poses and all traces of its former beauty will be ob- literated. PREACHER TURNS FARMER. THE FOUNDATION OF A FAST TROTTER. [W. Parsons, j In the year 1S7S I was employed by Capt. O. H. Perry to take charge of The Ranchito, near Soledad Mission, in Monterey county. There were about sixty horses on the place that had to be herded on the stubble, and as there were no fences it wag necessary to corral them every night. They were mostly young animals. There was one smooth tu
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