This celebrated stallion will make the season of 1886 at J. H. Swan's Stables, Jerome 

 Avenue and 169th Street, New York City, at $100, payable at time of first service. King 

 Wilkes is a brown stallion, 16 hands high, and weighs 1,115 Ibs., in stud condition. He was 

 bred by Albert Allen, Lexington, Ky. , and foaled in 1876, and is now in the full vigor of ma- 

 tured power. He is a young, large, sound, pure gaited and level headed stallion. His breeding 

 is given in full in the tabulated pedigree printed on the next page, and the attention of breed- 

 ers is invited to it, in the confidence that it will repay careful perusal. It combines the gilt 

 edge cross of Hambletonian and Marnbrino Chief . His sire, George Wilkes (519), 2:22, stands 

 confessedly at the head of trotting progenitors. He was not only, by the record, the fastest of 

 the entire sons of Rysdyk's Hambletonian (10), and one of the greatest of race horses, in his 

 day, but his success since he went into the stud, rather late in life, was unexampled. No less 

 than forty-one trotters and three pacers, of his get, are now in the 2:30 list, and of them, seven 

 have beaten 2:20, and twenty-five have records of 2:25 or better. Eight of his sons are 

 already represented by their get in the 2:30 list, and five of his daughters have each produced 

 one or more with recoi ds from 2 :19^ to 2 :30. George Wilkes has therefore surpassed his illus- 

 trious sire, who has 38, the third largest number in the 2:30 list. Only one sire, Blue Bull, 

 excels him in the number of his get in the 2:30 list, he having forty-seven trotters and three 

 pacers to his credit, but of these only five have beaten 2:20, and but twenty-three have records 

 of 2:25 or better, conclusively showing the superiority of George Wilkes in getting performers 

 gifted with a high rate of speed. 



This sire bequeaths to King Wilkes, in addition to his inheritance from old Hambletonian, 

 and his own great and well founded reputation, most valuable crosses to Henry Clay and 

 Sherman Morgan. The dam of King Wilkes, Missie, by Brignoli (77), 2:29%, produced but two 

 others, Cascarilla, 2:25^, in a fourth heat, and Qui Vive, who has shown a trial in 2:30. 

 Cascarilla's turf career was cut short by an accident, and she was put to breeding. She has 

 produced Quartermaster, who was sold for $3,000, after a two-year-old trial in 2:42%. Missie 

 was a daughter of Brignoli, son of the great Mambrino Chief (11), the sire of Lady Thome, 

 2:18^, Woodford Mambrino, 2:21%, and nine others in the 2:30 list. The daughters of Mam- 

 brino Chief have produced sixteen with records from 2:17 to 2 :oO, including Director, 2:17, 

 Piedmont, 2:17^, Thorndale, 2:22^. Voltaire, 2:21, and Onward. 2:25^. The dam of Brig- 

 noli was Sally Woodford, by Woodford, who sired the dam of Woodford Mambrino, 2:21^, 

 and of Wedgewood (692), 2:19. King Wiikes not only combines the most valued blood lines, 

 but his pedigree fairly bristles with speed points. He traces eight times to Imp. Messenger, 

 and twice to Imp. Diomed, the fountain heads of trotting blood. 



But this horse does not depend upon his ancestry to recommend him. He is not only 

 standard by blood, but also by performance, and by his progeny. His present record, 2:22^, 

 was obtained at Hartford, Conn., August 27, 1884, in the fourth heat of a six heat race, which 

 he won without a break, beating among others Butterfly, Walnut and Bessie, all of whom 

 have records better than 2:20. September 30, 1885, after a severe season in the stud, he won 

 second money in the Champion Stallion Cup Race, at Mystic Park, being close up in 2: 19%, 

 2:20%, 2:20, although his preparation was very short, and he was reduced over 100 Ibs. in 

 flesh. In the few races he has trotted he has shown himself game, resolute and fast, and his 

 gait, which he transmits to his get in a remarkable degree, is perfection. His colts are all 

 young. But one of them, Oliver'K., has been trained, and he has a four-year-old record of 

 2:24%, in a fourth heat against aged horses, and has shown a trial as a four-year-old, in 2:22, 

 over a half-mile track. His get are all bay or brown, and all level headed. 



King Wilkes himself has trotted a trial in 2:17, at the Gentlemen's Driving Park, New 

 York City. 



He is a vigorous and very sure foal getter. Previous to 1885, his first regular season in 

 the stud, he covered but 26 mares, and got 20 foals. His services are offered to the. breeding 

 public, confident that they cannot go amiss in sending mares to him. Mares not parted with, 

 and not proving in foal, may be returned free in 1887. Best care given to mares at reasonable 

 terms. Address, 



IR,. B. COlSTKlLIlSr, 



146 Centre Street, New York City. 



