. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16>£, Chestnut Stallion (11) by Guy Wilkes 2:15^—Lida W. 2:18^ by Nutwood. and raced, part of the time being leased to others, and when everything is taken into consideration it will have to be ad* mitted that Nutwood Wilkes has forced his own way to the very front rank of sires. Lida W., the dam of Nutwood Wilkes, raised five colts and while carryiog one of them got a record of 2:26. Her foal of 1891 died, and she was then put into training and that fall paced to her record of 2:18} at San Jose. Nutwood Wilkes was foaled in 188S, at the Nut
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16>£, Chestnut Stallion (11) by Guy Wilkes 2:15^—Lida W. 2:18^ by Nutwood. and raced, part of the time being leased to others, and when everything is taken into consideration it will have to be ad* mitted that Nutwood Wilkes has forced his own way to the very front rank of sires. Lida W., the dam of Nutwood Wilkes, raised five colts and while carryiog one of them got a record of 2:26. Her foal of 1891 died, and she was then put into training and that fall paced to her record of 2:18} at San Jose. Nutwood Wilkes was foaled in 188S, at the Nutwood Stock Farm at Irvington, the property of the well known car builder, Martin Carter. He was not broke to harness until the spring he was three years old, and on June 10th of that year was taken to San Jose for work on the track. He had all the fat on his ribs that a three-year-old whose life has been spent in rich pastures usually carries and was too heavy to be given fast work, bat five days after reaching San Jose trotted two miles, the first in 2:54, repeating in 2:53. Two months later he was Btarted in a race for Btallions, meeting Billy Thorn- hill, Delmas and Bay Bum. He trotted a great race for a three-year-old that had only been broken a few months, win- ning the second and third heats and being three times a close second and one third. He trotted the fastest mile of the race, 2:27£, in the third heat. The young man that drove Nutwood Wilkes in thiB race sent him for every heat and the wonderful showing of gameness and endurance made by the colt led the late John Goldsmith to crier a big price for him which, being declined, he then wanted him to campaign. At the record meeting at Stockton during October of the same year Nutwood Wilkes trotted to a time record of 2:20£. The following year the colt went into the atud and earned $5,500 for his owner, being bred to fifty-five mares outside those of the Nutwood farm. In 1894 he was trained again and made his first s
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