The Indianapolis journal., 1904-02-28
ONTARIO YOUNG WOMAN
OWNS FAST TROTTERS
She Proposes to Enter the Trotting
Game as a Rival of the
Big I1orsemen.
TO BID FOR LOU DILLON
Sent Her Trainer to Cleveland,
but He Decided Not to Buy
the Trotter.

LEXINGTON. Ky. Feb. 27.-That Miss
x. L. Wilks. the young Canadian woman
who proposes the coming season to enter
the trotting game as the rival of c. X. G..
Billings, +. E. Smathers. Harry X. Dew
ereux and others, who spare no expense in
maintaining stable of exceptional trotting
horses, came near buying Lou Dillon when
she was offered for sale at Cleveland, was
told here this week by her trainer, Harry
G StinsOn. Miss WiIks sent Stinson to
Cleveland with orders to buy the mare if
she suited him. Stinson spent several davs
examining her and inquiring of her quail
ties. lie learned that she was of a high
nervous temperament. and il was some
times necessary TO stuff cotton in her ears
TO prevent her taking fright at any ordi-
nary noise. Knowing that Miss Wilks
wanted performers that she could drive
herself on the road Stinson declined to buy
the mare which has developed into the
most wonderful performer the world has
ever seen 1t was for the reason that
many turfme9 claim that Emma Hoyt.
mare owned by Glenn Beachy, jr., of this
city. that showed a trial of 200 last fall,
With but little training would. with proper
handIng. challenge for the championship
class, that StinSOn came here and bought
the mare, paying 5000 for her. This mare
In no way resembles Lou Dillon in confor-
nation. being much larger, with an un-
usually long and slender body HOrsemen,
however, say she has the making of
wonderful trotter. and, being of a quiet
disposition. her owner can drive her on the
boulevard. Miss Wilks has at her farm in
Ontario now about seventy head of trotters,
and has placed at the head of her stud the
stallion Ora Wilkes, purchased recently in
New York. Her farm is in charge Of James
Nedtherill The seven new additions TO
the trotting possessions of Miss Wilks. in
Guiding Emma Hoyt. were shipped this
week. to Bramford, Ontario. where her
training stable is located.
The famous brood mare Florence S, by
Alcrayon, the dam of Mary Gage, the crack
three-year-old of last season. which her
owner, w. B. Chisholm. Cleveland, recently
priced at $4,000 is owned by II. G.. Stin-
son. who has yearling full-brother to
Mary Gage, which he expects to be even
more phenomenal than his famous sister.
Florence s. Is a young mare. being but
eleven years old. and is now heavy in foal
10 the mighty Cresceus, 2:0214. Every foal
so far trained out of Florence S. has beaten
2:2O, and indications are that from her will
come one of the most sensational trotterS
Of the day AS Miss Wilks. for whom Stin-
horse is at the head of her Cruickstone
stock farm, both the sire and dam of Mary
Gage are now in Canada.
j. II. McCready, Sewickley. Pa, owner
of the high-class five-year-old John Nc,
three-year-old record 2:17A, has decided 10
give the gelding TO Ed Geers to train and
tering in Louisville in the care of W. w.
Milan. who developed him and has always
heretofore trained him, and will be shipped
from there early the coming week TO Mem
phis, where Geerss string is now quartered.
John Nc is a most valuable addition to the
Wizards" stable. He is eligible TO all the
big slow class races, and as four-year-old
could trot three heats better than 2:lO.
Horsemen comment on the Judgment how
ever, of McCready in taking the son of Rex
Americus out of Milam's hands The Skin
| of Geers is unQuestioned, but Milan de-
veloped John Nc from a colt, and he knows
| all of his weaknesses. as we'll as his ability,
and it is questionable If any trainer could
1 nC n
veteran horseman who has always been be-
hind him in his races. In Ben Kenny S
hands Lady Thisbe was one of the stars
of the turf in 1902. Last year Geers never
| got her to a race Local horsemen, so well
| knowing the mutual bond existing between
| Milan and the great gelding, are wondering
if his fate in 1904 will be the same as Lady
| Thisbe's was last season.
The noted trainer, Joe Thayer, who has
been confined 10 his bed most or the WIN
ter is now able to be up and and. around 1.; the
| activity around his stable until spring sets
| in. His horses, in the care OF DR.. w. r.
| Dickerson, have wintered mcely ana NE. MS
| crack four-year-old Ed Gaylord gives every
| indication of standing training this year.
| This colt was the most promising OF the
| local owned three-year-olds last year and
| early I'm the summer before going wrong
| went a mile in 2:1512 If he stands training,
| good Judges predict he will be 2:lO horse
| in his four-year-old form m
| John A McKerron, 2:O41z, Will not make
| q late stud season. In Kentucky this year,
| as was anticipated early in the winter. His
| owner II. X. Devereux has decided TO put
| him in training the last of June, when MS
| stud season in Ohio will come to close,
| and the great horse will be prepared be-
fore the year ends to make an effort to rob
Cresceus. 2;O2A, of his trottingM M stallion al lon
| crown Should Ben Kenney be able 10 re-
| now his duties in the sulky by the first
of July. it is said upon good authority he
| will drive the great horse this year. In
| the event he is not able to tram py tha'
| tive AZ T. Y. Hardness will give his con-
| sent Devereux will turn the famous stal-
| lion over to Ed Benyon, who handled him
all the early part of last season. only
| twenty mares will be bred to John A NC