. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 3"0W,r„fl ROY WILKES, 2:12 3-4. THE MOST CONSISTENT PACING STALLION IN THE WOKLD. THE CHAMPION OF THE PACING BRIGADE. This week we add another to the long list of portraits is- sued by the Breeder and Sportsman, and it is with pardon- able pride that we point to the exceedingly fine picture of Roy Wilkes, 2:12$, the beat of the free-for-all pacing class that contended last Beason on the "big ; His owner, Mr. L. A. Davies, has bronght Roy Wilkes to California, and he is located at Pleasanton Stock Farm, where he will stand during the seaso
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 3"0W,r„fl ROY WILKES, 2:12 3-4. THE MOST CONSISTENT PACING STALLION IN THE WOKLD. THE CHAMPION OF THE PACING BRIGADE. This week we add another to the long list of portraits is- sued by the Breeder and Sportsman, and it is with pardon- able pride that we point to the exceedingly fine picture of Roy Wilkes, 2:12$, the beat of the free-for-all pacing class that contended last Beason on the "big ; His owner, Mr. L. A. Davies, has bronght Roy Wilkes to California, and he is located at Pleasanton Stock Farm, where he will stand during the season of 1390, bnt at the same time Mr. Davies is prepared to match him against any pacer or trotter owned west of the Missouri River for any reasonable amount. The match can be made to take place over any, race courRe within a hundred miles of San Francisco, and as there has been a great deal of bantering among the owners of pacers, it is about time that some of them should come to the front [and test the merits of Roy Wilkes, particularly as Mr. Davies is eager to match his horse. Roy Wilkes is seal-brown, J5| hands high, six years old, and weighs 1,050 pounds. He is by Adrian Wilkes 6560. Adrian Wilkes is by George Wilkes, dam Nellie B (dam of Ira Wilkes, 2:2S trotting and 2:22jJ pacing, and Mike Wilkes, 2:15$), by Harry Patchen (Kirtly's), son of George M. Patch- en 30; second dam Sophie, by Edwin Forrest 49, etc. The dam of Roy Wilkes is Flora (by Blue Bull 75; second, third and fourth dams thoronghbred). Roy Wilkes came to his speed early, and as a four-year-old he achieved a ncord of 2:20$. At Cedar Rapidd, Iowa, on June 22, 1S87, he won second money in the 2:35 pacing class. The conflict was a keen one, and resulted in a battle of six heats. For the firBt heat thirteen responded to the tap of the bell, and the heat was won by Billy the Kid in 2:24$, with Duplex second and Roy third. In the second heat Roy went to the front and won the heat in 2:24$, with Billy the Kid sec
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