190 THE HORSE 



serious one of bad hocks. Sometimes, also, they lack 

 quality. 



William L. is known chiefly as the sire of Axtell, 

 the horse that sold for $105,000. Axtell is the father 

 of Axworthy, and the Axworthys are now looming up 

 in the very front rank of modern trotting families. 

 They, like the Jay Birds, have the Morgan cross. The 

 Axworthys have all the good equine qualities, except 

 the very important one of good hind legs. In this 

 respect they are in some cases deficient. 



The dam of William L. was Lady Bunker by 

 Mambrino Patchen, and she was also the dam of 



Guy Wilkes, represented chiefly by Nutwood Wilkes 

 and the McKerron family — a fast, handsome, good- 

 tempered family, long-gaited, and lacking in size and 

 substance. 



Onward, out of Dolly by Mambrino Chief, a big, 

 strong, fast horse, but coarse, and not light In action. 

 This family has produced many fast trotters, but only 

 a few superlatively fast. Among his sons are Rex 

 Amerlcus, Online, and Colonel Cochran. 



Red Wilkes, out of Queen Dido by Mambrino 

 Chief, second dam by Red Jacket, and he by Billy Root, 

 a son of Sherman Morgan. Notwithstanding this 

 Morgan cross, the Red Wilkes family lack quality, but 

 they are big, tough, and speedy. Among the Red 

 Wilkes stallions are John R. Gentry, a pacer, Ashland 

 Wilkes, Red Medium, and Alliewood. 



Gambetta Wilkes. The dam of Gambetta Wilkes 

 was by the Morgan horse Gill's Vermont, and this is a 

 family of much beauty — Its only fault being a tendency 



