Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-30
JOSEPH BATTELL
MiddleburY, VT.
HAPPY MEDIUMS GRAND SIRE.
A GLANCE AT THE STUD BOOK OF Juo-
SONS HAMBLETONlAN.

GLANCE AT THE STUD BOOK OF JUDI
SONS HAMeLEToNIAN.
Recently discussion as to the breed
ing of the dam of Happy Medium was
accorded considerable space in the Re
view. and the interest therein was ex
tended. The production of so great a
horse as Happy Medium, and that by so
great mare as old Princess 30.
naturally makes everything pertaining
to her lineage matter of prime interest
to trotting horse students. Allen w.
Thomson quite satisfactorily demonstrate
ed that Princess. the dam of Happy
Medium, was by Andrus' Hambletonian,
but probably few have known that some
doubt.has existed as to how the Andrus
horse himself was bred
The registered verdict is that Andrus'
Hambletonian was by Judsons Ham
bletonian, that the latter was by
Bishops Hambetonian, and that Bish-
ops Hambletonian was by imported
Messenger, out of Pheasant, by import
ed Shark, etc.
Bishops Hambletonian was good
race horse, but have never placed any
faith in the story that his dam was by
imported Shark. Indeed, there never
was any evidence in support thereof,
except an advertisement in a country
paper-the Orange County On. W
Patriot. Edgar, III his Stud Book, pub
lished in 1888 gave the dam of Bishops
Hambletonian as by Messenger, and
from other sources it may be inferred
that about all that is kncwn of Pleas
ant was that she was Virginian mare.
The excellence of her son, however.
who was a good horse at fourmile
heats. argues that she was thorough
bred, though how bred we do not know.
Judson's Hambletonian, the sire OF
Andrus' Hambletonian. who got Happy
Mediums dam. was a brown horse, by
Bishops HambletOnian, and was foaled
in 1921. In 1880 he was sold by his
breeder, Judge Underhill of Dorset.
Vt, to DR.. Nathan Judson of Pawlet.
VT. Allen Thomson, in his History of
the HamiltOnian horses of Vermont"
says: ale was l54 hands high. His
back ran out straight to the setting on
of the tail, like an OK. 1t is said he
was quite trotter,. that he could trot
his twelve miles an hour. lie was not
a good looking horse, nor had he much
style or action"
Speaking of his son, Andrus' lIamil-
tonian-recorded as Hambletonian-M
Thomson says:
Those that should know differ in re-
gard to the year the Andrus horse was
foaled Elhanor McWan of Dorset,
'h"t he went
T"tt:, aAbs H. was IN 1904 .---. - .
N!ti Ezra Andrus and helped him buy
the horse that took his name; that Mr..
Andrus bought at the same time an own
brother to the Andrus horse that was
year younger. Mr.. McWam says this
was in the fall of 1881, and that he
bought the next year 1S32) the colt
that the dam of the Andrus horse
brought, which was own brother to the
ones Mr.. Andrus bought. j. NJ. Bishop
SAYS that he knew the Andrus horse
well, and is very confident that he was
the breeder of Princess, says the Andrus
horse was called eight years old in 1915
(if so, he may have been ten or twelve).
Il. B. Sherman of Dandy, Vt, says that
he took care of the Andrus horse in the
seasons of 1914, 1916, 1917, lS4S and
1850; that Mr.. Bagley took care of the
horse the season of 1913, and that the
Andrus horse was four years old in
Mr.. j. NJ. Bishop says that Mr.. MOul-
ton, the tender of his fathers horse, the
Bishop Hamiltonian, always claimed
that the Andrus horse was sired by his
fathers horse the Bishop Hamiltonian.
The dam of the Andrus horse was
mahogany bay, with a small white strip
in the face and one white hind foot, 10
hands high, and weighed 900 pounds.
She was called fast, and a handsome,
fine style mare. Mr.. Andrus called her
Dutch blood. Mr.. McWain says she
was bred on Long Island (her being
bred in New York may have been the
cause of her being called a Dutch mare)
that Mr.. Fuller bought her of Mr.. Con-
verse of Rupert, Vt; that Mr.. Converse
bought her dam on Long Island; that
she was black mare, very fine and
handsome, had been racer, but had
broken down.
Recently ii. S. Judson, president of
the First national bank of Morris, Mimi,
favored us with a rare old book-the
stud book OF Judson's Hambletonian for
1880, 1881 and 1882. Mr.. Judson's let
ter speaks for itself:
enclose you herewith a document