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48 producing sons and 35 producing daughters. 

 So many of the get of Alcantara were pacers as 

 to strengthen the belief that the two gaits are 

 interchangeable, especially when the trainer is 

 easy-going and allows the horse to choose his 

 own way of progression. Alcyone was a smaller 

 but better balanced horse than Alcantara and had 

 more speed, although he did not obtain so fast a 

 record. He died young and yet left a great 

 reputation for his chances in the stud. Three of 

 his 50 trotters have records better than 2.10, 

 Martha Wilkes, 2.08 ; Bush, 2.09^ ; and Harrietta, 

 2.c9f. The fastest of his nine pacers is Alcyo, 

 2.10. Among the 48 producing sons of Alcyone 

 are Quartermaster, McKinney, and Dark Night. 

 Twenty-two of his daughters are dams of speed. 

 There was no antagonism between the blood of 

 George Wilkes and that of Alma Mater. When 

 parents bear some resemblance to each other, 

 when kindred influences act in conjunction, 

 potency in transmission is secured. 



Guy Wilkes, a bay horse, foaled in 1879, dam 

 Lady Bunker, by Mambrino Patchen, was wor- 

 shipped from afar in the palmy days of San 

 Mateo Stock Farm. He had trotted to a record 

 of 2.1 5 J and had sired early speed, and visitors to 



