Wilkes Wonder Horse Pedigree

Owner: 1) Mr. Goode 2) Mr. Wilkes
Breeder: Colonel Francis Epps
State Bred: VA

Spring 1804 - stakes Newmarket; 1805 - undefeated in 5 starts - stakes Newmarket; 2m heats Smithfield; 4m heats Jockey Club Purse Norfolk; 1m heats Warrenton; 2m heats Proprietors' Purse Belfield; Oct 1806 - 3m heats Newmarket (having served 73 mares earlier that year); 1 Nov 1806 - 4m heats Belfield

Spring 1804 - 2nd Jockey Club Purse Newmarket; Fall 1804 - 2nd Jockey Club Purse Newmarket (suffering from strangles); 1806 - 2nd 4m heats Jockey Club Purse Norfolk

Sire of 1) Bet Botsey, the 5th dam of Mollie McCarty (1876 California Derby); of Belle (1878 Alabama Stakes); of Lord Murphy (1879 Kentucky Derby); of Sally Black (1880 California Derby);

and of Phillip S (1884 California Derby); of 2) Rosetta, ancestress of Worth (1912 Kentucky Derby); of Dangerous (1925 Travers); and of the great Count Fleet (1943 Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Wood Memorial Stakes, Leading Sire in North America in 1951); and of 3) Tennessee Oscar (undefeated in 4 starts)

Died of colic Feb 1815, drinking too freely when heated while travelling by road

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