216 OLD-TIME TROTTERS. 



and Miller's Damsel in 2.26i, 2.26J, 2.28f, and 2.29. Brown 

 Dick took the third and fourth heats. 



His next race was on October 17th, when, at the Eclipse 

 course, he was defeated by Brown Dick, but three days after- 

 wards Patchen distanced him in a second heat in 2.28. He 

 then trotted two races each with Lancet and Brown Dick, win- 

 ning one from each of them. 



He then made bold to engage with Flora Temple (then at 

 the zenith of her fame), at the Union course on November 21st. 

 The mare won the first two heats in 2.28 and 2.23, with 

 Patchen " close up " in each case. In the third heat, although 

 Flora was the first under the wire in 2.24, the heat was given 

 the stallion because of alleged unfairness and running of the 

 mare. Darkness then coming on, the race was postponed and 

 was never finished. 



In 1860, May 16th, at the Union course, he defeated Ethan 

 Allen in harness in 2.25, 2.24, and 2.29, and on the 23d,- seven 

 days after, he defeated him to wagons in 2.26i, 2.27, and 2.31. 



His race with Flora Temple drew the attention of the whole 

 country to him. In his great race with her on June 6, 1860, 

 he proved himself a remarkable trotter, and he trotted one of 

 the quarters in a heat better than 34 seconds, and gave Flora 

 Temple one of the best races and one of the most hard-fought 

 races of her life. 



His last race with Flora was at Corning, October 31, 1860. 

 He was then retired to the stud, and died in 1864. He was the 

 sire of several good and fast trotters in their day, among which 

 was that great campaigner Lucy, 2.18^, and George M. Patchen, 

 Jr., 2.27, etc. 



GEORGE WILKES. 



George Wilkes, founder of the great "Wilkes family of 

 American trotters, was a brown horse with one white hind foot. 

 He was foaled in 1856, the property of Col. Felter of Green- 

 wood Lake, Orange County, N. Y. His sire was Eysdyk's 

 Hambletonian and his dam, Dolly Spanker — a celebrated road 

 mare of her day whose speed was never developed on the turf. 



