. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, February 15, 1908. RED McK. 43766, A ROYAL CROSS. There were very few daughters of. Red Wilkes bred to the great Mc- Kinney 2:11% while this horse was in California, because there were very few, if any, on this Coast, but Red Mc- K.'s dam, Bonnie Red, was here and she was one of the handsomest as well as purest gaited ever driven. She is a producer, maving to her credit Bonnie Derby, the dam of Bonaka (3) 2:23%. Red Wilkes, her sire, was one of the greatest sons of Geo. Wilkes 2:22, having to his credit 177 in the 2:30 list,
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, February 15, 1908. RED McK. 43766, A ROYAL CROSS. There were very few daughters of. Red Wilkes bred to the great Mc- Kinney 2:11% while this horse was in California, because there were very few, if any, on this Coast, but Red Mc- K.'s dam, Bonnie Red, was here and she was one of the handsomest as well as purest gaited ever driven. She is a producer, maving to her credit Bonnie Derby, the dam of Bonaka (3) 2:23%. Red Wilkes, her sire, was one of the greatest sons of Geo. Wilkes 2:22, having to his credit 177 in the 2:30 list, including Ralph Wilkes 2:06%, Ithuriel 2:09% and Blanche Louise 2:10. As a broodmare sire he stands pre-eminent among all other representatives of the Wilkes family. His daughters have produced Walnut Hall 2:0S%, Kingmond 2:09, Coleridge 2:05%, Casonda 2:05%, .Sally Toler 2:06%, Tommy H. 2:07%, Dr. Madara 2:08 and Bert Oliver 2:08% besides 200 others. Red McK.'s seconddam, Bonnie Bell, is one of Almont's best speed-producing daughters, having Rebel Medium 2:15%, Happy Promise 2:16%, Poco Tiempo 2:23% and Bonnie Dean 2:24% to her credit. Almont's great- ness as a broodmare sire is acknowl- edged by all horsemen. The third dam, Alice Drake, was the dam of Norman Medium 2:30, Australia 2:28% and Alice Addison 2:28%, and she was by Norman 25, sire of Lulu 2:15, May Queen 2:20, etc. The fourth dam was Viley by Pilot Jr., sire of eight in 2:30 and the dams-of Maud S. 2:0S%, Jay Eye See 2:10, Pilot Medium, etc. With such a mare as Bonnie Red as the dam of Mc- Kinney 2:11%, the greatest sire of. early and extreme speed for his age that ever appeared in the trotting horse wold, as his sire, can any one doubt that Red McK. will not make one of the best trotters as well as the greatest of sires? He has a double cross of Wilkes blood through the greatest progenitors of speed ac- credited to Geo. Wilkes 2:22, and, aside from theis rich breeding, Red McK. is one of the finest looking, best-
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