. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 21, 1907.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 11. Old cXome of eMappy 'Medium - by When Nancy Hanks 2:04, the once famous world's champion trotter, was led into the sales ring during the Old Glory sale at Madison Square Garden last Thanksgiving Day, the crowd which forged its way around her in front of the auction box, wherein E. A, Tipton and Geo. A. Bain, the auctioneers, were announcing her qualities as a race mare and matron, preliminary to calling for bids, it seemed as if their remarks started a flood of reminisences among the older
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 21, 1907.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 11. Old cXome of eMappy 'Medium - by When Nancy Hanks 2:04, the once famous world's champion trotter, was led into the sales ring during the Old Glory sale at Madison Square Garden last Thanksgiving Day, the crowd which forged its way around her in front of the auction box, wherein E. A, Tipton and Geo. A. Bain, the auctioneers, were announcing her qualities as a race mare and matron, preliminary to calling for bids, it seemed as if their remarks started a flood of reminisences among the older horsemen, and when the last bid was called and she was sold to Joseph and Edward Madden of Lexington, Ky., for $1,500, little groups of famous drivers spoke of her and Happy Medium, her sire, many claiming that sentiment had much to do with her sale to these young men, for their father, John E. Madden, one of America's foremost horsemen, dates the beginning of his long and successful career to the days which he spent as a young man in Phila- delphia with the late Robert Steel, proprietor of the Cedar Park Stock Farm, who owned Happy Medium. Mr. Madden's well known devotion to Mr. Steel, and his high regard for Happy Medium and his best bred descendants are universally recognized, and no doubt he will watch the "queen" browsing in the blue grass of Kentucky, near the home of her kith. No broodmare he ever owned will receive greater care, for in looking after her welfare he will feel that all he may do will but feebly attest the great debt of gratitude he had for the owner of her sire, who showered him with kindness over thirty years ago. For Mr. Steel never felt it a trouble to encourage by word and deed every deserving young man who was struggling to earn an honest livelihood. Nancy Hanks was Mr. Steel's idol, although not foaled on his farm. She was bred by Hart Boswell of Lexington, Ky., who sold her seventeen years ago, when she was a four-year-old, to J. Malcolm
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