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Margaret S. The first heat was won by Sunol in 

 2:21^2, and the next three by the Guy Wilkes filly in 

 2:17^4, 2:26, 2:26^. When this trio met again, at 

 Oakland, the positions were reversed, Sunol winning 

 in straight order, with Margaret S. second and Lillian 

 Wilkes third. After the Oakland race Lillian Wilkes 

 disappeared from the turf, Margaret S. trained on to 

 a record of 2:i2 l / 2 , while Sunol, after reducing the 

 three-year-old record to 2:io>2, placed the world's 

 record to high wheels at 2:o8*4> which remained un- 

 beaten until September n, 1903, when Lou Dillon 

 trotted the Cleveland track to that hitch in 2 105. 



After trotting second to Lorita at Oakland, Hazel 

 Wilkes won again at Sacramento, where the two 

 year-old colt, Regal Wilkes, made his first start and 

 won in 2:28^. He also won again at San Jose, and 

 on November 9, the day Sunol trotted in 2:10^2, Regal 

 Wilkes placed the two-year-old record for colts at 

 2:20^4. On the same day Palo Alto trotted in 2:12^, 

 and Stamboul in 2:13^- During the balance of the 

 campaign Hazel Wilkes trotted second to Emma 

 Temple at Stockton, where she won two heats and 

 made a record of 2:20; won at San Jose over Mary 

 Lou, Alfred G. and Pink, and was second to Direct in 

 a four-year-old race at San Francisco in 2:19^, 2:19^2, 

 2:191/2. Una Wilkes, a sister to Hazel Wilkes, was 

 also started at San Jose, where she saved her entrance 

 in a race won by Richmond, Jr. Of the other horses 

 driven by John Goldsmith while in the Circuit in 1889, 

 Dan De Noyelle's mare, Nina De, by Nutwood, out of 

 Adelaide, by Phil Sheridan, won three out of five 

 starts and made a record of 2 126^ ; Victor was 

 awarded a first and a third, Alfred G. a first, Belle 



