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1887— SABLE WILKES. 



His black horse was reckoned the best on the coast. 



— Gordon. 



The three-year-old colt, Sable Wilkes, was the star 

 in John A. Goldsmith's stable in 1887. He was by 

 Guy Wilkes, out of Sable, by The Moor, and proved a 

 very strong card for his sire, as after defeating Soudan 

 at San Francisco and Sacramento, where he won the 

 Occident Stake and having two walkovers, he was 

 shipped to the Bay District and started to beat 2:19^, 

 the world's record for three-year-olds, held jointly by 

 the Electioneer filly, Hinda Rose, and the Kentucky- 

 bred colt, Patron, by Pancoast. At the first time of 

 asking, Sable Wilkes cut the record to 2:18, and when 

 tried again, three weeks later, trotted in 2:1834. The 

 mile in 2:18 gave Sable Wilkes and his sire a world- 

 wide reputation, which they retained from that date 

 until John Goldsmith drove his last race. Their glory 

 departed with him. Goldsmith also won four races 

 for the San Mateo Farm with the two-year-old geld- 

 in, Grandee, by Le Grand, giving him a mark of 

 2:31^ at San Francisco, where he defeated Memo. 

 Sister picked up two races at San Francisco, cutting 

 her mark to 2:1934, when she defeated Black Diamond 

 and Wells Fargo. She did not, however, have speed 

 enough to win on the trip through the circuit, Lot 

 Slocum, Menlo and Jane L. being in the way. The 

 other starters and their positions appear in the follow- 

 ing table : 



