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regret among breeders of trotting stock at her death, which occurred 

 June 6th, 1888. The dam of Harry Clay was by Imp. Bellfounder. 



Guy, a black, third on the list in 1888, is by Kentucky Prince, and 

 out of Flora Gardner. His record, placing him third on the list of geld- 

 ings, was not made until near the close of the racing season, Septem- 

 ber 19, 1888 ; so that prior to that date the third place had been held by 

 Rarus, 2:13^, a bay, with blazed face and white hind ankles, sired by 

 Conklin's Abdallah, and out of a mare by Telegraph. Guy, although an 

 erratic performer, is a horse of great gameness and spirit, and shows 

 bursts of speed at a rate far beyond his official record. August i, 1889, at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, he again lowered his mark to 2:10^, where it now rests. 



The holders of the records for age in 1888 were : Manzanita, Sable 

 Wilkes, Sunol and Norlaine. 



Manzanita, a bay mare, bred at Palo Alto, Cal., the then best four- 

 year-old, has a record at that age of 2:16. Her dam is Mayflower, by 

 the pacer St. Clair, and her sire is Electioneer, the famous son of Green 

 Mountain Maid and Hambletonian. (Manzanita was severely injured by 

 fire at Palo Alto, April iyth, 1888.) 



Sable Wilkes, a black stallion, the then best three-year-old, has a 

 record at that age of 2:18. His dam is Sable, who combines the blood 

 of Pilot Jr., Young Copper Bottom, Hambletonian and Mambrino Chief. 

 His sire is Guy Wilkes, a grandson of Hambletonian, and tracing on 

 the maternal side to Mambrino Chief and Seely's American Star. 



Sunol, the best two-year-old to close of 1888, has a record at that 

 age of 2:18. It was late in the season when Sunol made the record 

 which placed her first among two-year-olds. Earlier in the season this 

 honor had been gracefully borne by Wildflower, 2:21, a bay mare by 

 Electioneer, out of Mayflower; but on October 19, 1888, at the Bay 

 District Track, San Francisco, Sunol passed the Wildflower mark and 

 established the slightly better one f 2:20^4. Eight days later (Oct. 27, 

 1888), at the same place, she reduced her own record to 2:18, exactly 

 equaling the three-year-old record of Sable Wilkes, above noted. 



Sunol is a bay mare, foaled in 1886, got by Electioneer out of 

 Waxana. Waxana, a chestnut, is by General Benton, out of the Thor- 

 oughbred mare Waxy, whose breeding has been the subject of so much, 

 and so ill-natured, criticism. Mr. Bonner, the owner of Sunol, writes 

 under date December 5, 1891: 



* * * Sunol's second dam is by Lexington [Thoroughbred] ; that has been 

 established beyond the shadow of a doubt. * * * ' 



Sunol's career has been a series of triumphs, holding in succession 

 the two-year-old, three-year-old, four-year-old, five-year-old and aged 

 trotting records of the world ; being the first to lower the long-time 

 standard, 2:08^, of Maud S. , and establish the newer world's record, 

 2:08^, as a five-year-old in 1891. Her career the past season (1892) 



