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only two of her foals broken to harness, and Lady 

 Dunn is now referred to as the dam of Joe Bunker 

 2:i9 I 4, and Lady Bunker the dam of Guy Wilkes 

 2:15*4, El Mahdi 2:251/2, William L. and Declara- 

 tion all four sires of speed. 



GEORGE WILKES. 



He was the greatest Roman of them all. 



— Shakespeare. 



Lady Dunn's fame is linked with that of George 

 Wilkes whose early days in Orange County and on 

 Long Island, as graphically sketched in 1864 by 

 Charles J. Foster, cannot be other than acceptable to 

 the present generation of readers, as at the close of 

 1902 seven thousand one hundred and fifty trotters 

 or pacers out of eighteen thousand five hundred and 

 forty-seven trotters and nine thousand seven hundred 

 and thirteen pacers carry a strain of his blood : — 



"George Wilkes is a brown horse, with one white 

 heel. He stands about fifteen hands, is broad and 

 strong, as well as low and long, and is remarkably 

 high behind. His propelling power is very great, no 

 living horse exceeding him in this grand character- 

 istic. The dam of George Wilkes was a brown mare 

 called Dolly Spanker. It is said that she was by 

 Mambrino. This mare was brown, like her son, and 

 stood about fifteen two. He is the only foal she ever 

 had. She belonged at Rochester, where she was 



