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third to Major Wonder, Ulee Wilkes third to Jack 

 Spratt, Hazel Wilkes unplaced to Paragon and Sabina 

 unplaced to Belleflower in one of the greatest fields 

 of three-year-olds that ever took the word, the score 

 card presenting such names as Jessie McCorkle, 

 Czar, Kentucky Union, Wilkesward, Piletta and 

 Nyanza. 



After stopping a week at Grand Rapids, where 

 Sabledale and Muta Wilkes won their engagements, 

 Una Wilkes finishing fourth to Nightingale, Sabina 

 fourth to Belleflower, Jean Wilkes third to Directum 

 and Hazel Wilkes third to Martha Wilkes in 2:12 

 2:14^2, 2:i4j4, the San Mateo Farm horses were 

 shipped to Washington Park, Chicago, for the annual 

 meeting of the Northwestern Breeder's Association. 

 On the opening day Oro Wilkes won a two-year-old 

 race from Wilkes Maid and Tuscarora in 2:25^, 

 2:25^, 2:28^4, his first being the only one placed to 

 the stable's credit that week, the score for the black 

 colt's stable companions reading Jean Wilkes third 

 to Directum, Muta Wilkes third to Geneva, Azote 

 being between her and the winner, Una Wilkes 

 fourth to Hamlin's Nightingale and Rupee third to 

 Flying Jib. The two weeks' meeting at the Inde- 

 pendence kite track was the next stand, and when 

 the curtain rang down on this, the greatest of 

 C. W. Williams' ventures, John A. Goldsmith, 

 had $8,400 to his credit. He won there with Muta 

 Wilkes in 2:1434 2 ' 1 5> 2:I 7/4> an d Hazel Wilkes in 

 2:i5j4, 2:14^4, 2:163^2 and was second to Silicon in 

 2 \2oy 2 with Oro Wilkes, second to Directum with 

 Lallah Wilkes, fourth to Kentucy Union with Sabina, 

 second to Hulda with Muta Wilkes, third to St. Vin- 



