CHAPTER XXV. 



OLD-TIME TROTTERS. — Continued. 

 George M. Patchen — Foaled 1849— Pedigree— Distanced by Ethan Allen 

 in 1858 — Unfinished race with Flora Temple in 1859— Defeated 

 Ethan Allen in 1860 — His last race with Flora Temple — Sire of the 

 campaigners George M. Patchen, Jr., and Lucy — Died in 1864 — 

 George Wilkes, 2.22, founder of the Wilkes family — Pedigree — Raised 

 by hand — First name Robert Fullingham — Defeated Ethan Allen in 

 1862, winning $10,000 — Defeated Lady Thorne in 1868 — Died in 

 Kentucky in 1882, aged twenty-six years — Roll of honor. 



GEORGE M. PATCHEN. 



GEOEGE M. PATCHED, 2.234, was foaled in 1849 ; bred 

 by H. F. Sickles of Monmouth County, New Jersey. 

 His sire was Cassius M. Clay, by Henry Clay, son of Andrew 

 Jackson. His dam was a fine road mare by Head-em, a son 

 of Imported Trustee. He was a powerful, brown horse, sixteen 

 hands high, of great strength and much bone. He was coarse 

 about the head, and, although he was what might be called a 

 plain horse, his points — though uncommonly strong — were 

 good, coupled with good trotting action. 



He made his debut on the public trotting turf of the Union 

 course, Long Island, October 28, 1858, to trot against Ethan 

 Allen, but he was distanced by the little Morgan king in the 

 first heat in 2.28. 



In 1859, on May 9th, on the Union course, he defeated Pilot 

 in 2.32|. On June 21, 1859, on the same track, he fought out 

 a desperate contest with Lady "Woodruff and Brown Dick of 

 six heats, in which the Lady conquered. Bat six days after, at 

 the same place, he defeated both the Lady and Brown Dick, 

 two-mile heats, in 5.01J, and the next day defeated the Lady 

 again. 



Over this same course, on July 7th, he defeated Brown Dick 



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