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the most formidable chasers among the pacers while 

 the Dictator and George Wilkes strains were as con- 

 spicuous among the trotters. Strange to relate the 

 Hal and Dictator lines were in time blended through 

 Direct and a mare by Tom Hal. The first sample of 

 the combination was the unbeaten Direct Hal with 

 which Geers made a sweep through the Grand Cir- 

 cuit. Of the Wilkes line all of them have faded ex- 

 cept the Axtell, Baron Wilkes and McKinney strains. 

 The last named runs to Alcyone and the first to 

 William L. Their leaders are Guy Axworthy, Dillon 

 Axworthy, Belwin and San Francisco. Justice Brooke 

 represents the Baron Wilkes line. 



In 1926 Guy Axworthy displayed Guy Trogan, Guy 

 Richard, Guy Ozark and Guy McKinney, as high class 

 a group of trotters as ever took the word in any 

 company. In his first start Guy Richard won at 

 Kalamazoo in 2:04l^. At Toledo Guy Ozark showed 

 his quality by winning from Rose Scott and Great 

 Bells in 2:02l^ while the victory of Guy McKinney 

 in the Hambletonian and other stakes made him the 

 outstanding three-year-old. 



In Thompson Dillon and Minia Dillon the Dillon 

 Axworthy family had a pair of high class race 

 horses that made their presence felt. Their best 

 showing was on the half-mile tracks but class counts 

 as much there as on the larger ovals. 



At Windsor when Thompson Dillon defeated the 

 favorite Marmaduke a few thought that the Belwin 

 gelding did not make as bold a bid for victory as at 

 Sturbridge. This may have been true but when he 



