272 



THE GOLDSMITHS. 



Starters. 



- 

 O 



y 



Sire. 



Amount 

 Won. 



Yolo Maid (3) 

 Guy Wilkes.... 



Ben AH 



Rosie Mac. 



Grandee (3) 

 Perihelion (p) 



Adonis (3) 



Bay Rose 



Damiana (p). 

 Allie Whipple . 



Total. 



2:14 



2:22 



2:20% 



2:23^ 

 2:25 



2:20^ 

 2:20% 



Alexander Button. . . 



George Wilkes 



Geo. M. Patchen, Jr. 

 Alexander Button. . . 



Le Grand 



Admiral 



Sidney 



Sultan 



Gladiator , 



Whipple's Hamblet'n. 



$1,650 00 



1,625 00 



1,600 00 



1,430 00 



1,217 50 



300 00 



300 00 



125 00 



60 00 



15 00 



$8,322 50 



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%, 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 2:14^4 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 



