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THE GOLDSMITHS. 



1889 LILLIAN WILKES. 



Her neck was arched double, her nostrils were wide, 

 And the tips of her tapering ears nearly met. 



Gordon. 



In 1889, the Guy Wilkes trotters began to appear, 

 John Goldsmith making his first starts in August, at 

 Napa, where Hazel Wilkes was second to the Palo 

 Alto filly, Lorita, in 2:22^4, and Lillian Wilkes in a 

 walkover in the stake for three-year-olds, trotted in 

 2:18, equalling the mark made by Sable Wilkes in 

 1887, but which was no longer the world's record, 

 Axtell having reduced it to 2:14% at Cleveland a few 

 weeks before ; a figure which he subsequently cut to 

 2:12 at Terre Haute. Hazel Wilkes won her engage- 

 ments at Santa Rosa and Petaluma, where Lillian 

 Wilkes made her first start in a race with Sunol and 



