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Belle Brasiield, 2.20), by Mambrino Chorister (son 

 of Mambrino Chief and Montague, mare by Chor- 

 ister by imp. Contract) ; third dam Miss Blood, by 

 Blood's Black Hawk, by Hill's Black Hawk, sire 

 of Ethan Allen, and fourth dam the Parker Craig 

 mare by Moore's Pilot, by Sam Slick by Old Pilot, 

 sire of Pilot Jr. In 1886 Colonel Stoner described 

 Baron Wilkes as " a young horse of nice action — 

 the action of a trotter, clean, frictionless, and low." 

 The first time I saw the young stallion race was in 

 1887, and, looking down upon him from the judges' 

 stand, I was impressed by his low carriage. He 

 w^as a brown of 15.2, with stripe In face, and was 

 easily distinguished in a large field. It was in Octo- 

 ber, 1888, that he won the 2.25 stallion stake at 

 Lexington In the fifth, sixth, and seventh heats, and 

 thus demonstrated the gameness of his maternal 

 ancestors, backed by the blood of American Eclipse, 

 Contract, and Medley. The time of the seventh 

 heat of the stubbornly fought race was 2. 18 J. A 

 few weeks after this contest Baron Wilkes was 

 matched against Bermuda and Hinder Wilkes, and 

 won in 2.2of, 2.i8f, 2.18. 



Among the mares which Colonel Stoner selected 

 to breed to Baron Wilkes and Mambrino Russell 

 were Alacrity by Harold, out of Juliet (dam of 

 Mambrino Pilot) by Pilot Jr.; Almeta by Almont, 

 out of Alma Mater; Annie Bell by Nutwood, out 

 of Lucia (dam of Day Dream, 2.2 if) by Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian ; Cranston Bells by Rhode Island, out 



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