STOUT WILLIAMS CATON 



the Waldorf-Astoria during the National Horse 

 Show of 1904. 



The view from the residence of Mt. Kisco Farm in 

 Westchester County, New York, is far-reaching, and 

 when friends call on J. W. Daly there is no absence 

 of good cheer. Delmarch, who once was timidly 

 backed to beat Allerton at Lexington, was the pre- 

 mier stallion until Oro Wilkes nosed him from the 

 place. Delmarch trotted to a high-wheel record of 

 2. 1 1 1, and his sire Hambrino, son of Edward 

 Everett, had a record of 2.21^. Ella G., his dam, 

 was a producing daughter of George Wilkes and 

 Widow Rantoul by Ulverston, son of Lexington. 

 The lines of Delmarch are speed-producing and speed- 

 supporting, and he is a sire of trotters and pacers of 

 resolute hearts. He has fifty-four in the list, thirty 

 of which are trotters. Oro Wilkes by Sable Wilkes, 

 2.18, out of Ellen Mayhew by Director, 2.17, was 

 a big money winner for William Corbitt, and he 

 trotted to a two-year-old record of 2.2iJ, to a three- 

 year-old record of 2.15, and to a four-year-old rec- 

 ord of 2.1 1. Mr. Daly showed good judgment when 

 he mated the best mares at Mt. Kisco with Oro 

 Wilkes. In his brood-mare band were Belle Archer, 

 2.12}; Minnie Wilkes, 2.17; Annie Stevens, 2.18 J, 

 and Oro Fino, 2.18. If Oro Wilkes had remained 

 at Mt. Kisco Farm, he would have continued to find 

 mates worthy of his breeding and achievements, but 

 Mr. Daly contracted the selling fever in the autumn 

 of 1903, and closed out his stud under the hammer. 



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