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hundred 2:10 performers, and four hundred with 

 records of 2:30 or better. 



Notwithstanding this flood of speed no steps were 

 taken to trace the remote crosses in Guy Axworthy's 

 pedigree and connect his inheritance with the racing 

 quahties of his get. Peter the Great, the super sire 

 of his day, had a bogus cross in his pedigree almost 

 to the end of his career. In the case of Guy Ax- 

 worthy his maternal line stopped with a doubt as 

 to the sire of his grandam. 



Guy Axworthy was foaled in 1902. He was bred 

 by John H. Shults and registered as a bay colt by 

 Axworthy, dam Lillian Wilkes by Guy Wilkes, 

 grandam Flora said to be by Langford, a son of 

 Wilhamson's Belmont. If anybody felt disposed to 

 make further inquiry the records showed that his 

 dam Lillian Wilkes trotted in 2:17% and that his 

 grandam was registered as Flora, pacer, -m, foaled 

 186-, said to be by Langford, son of Williamson's 

 Belmont. Bred by California, owned by Wil- 

 liam Corbett, San Mateo Farm, San Mateo, Cal. 



Neither the color, age or breeder of Flora appears 

 in the Register. Without these the name of the 

 alleged sire should have been dropped. A list of 

 Flora's foals up to 1884 appears under her name. 

 One of them, Joe Arthurton, retired with a trotting 

 record of 2:201/2- 



Lillian Wilkes was foaled in 1886. After being 

 raced in California she was consigned to a New York 

 sale. John H. Shults purchased her. He bred a num- 

 ber of foals from her. All of them disappeared 



