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Willie Newcom is a handsome little fellow who has had 

 considerable success as a rider. He is honest, straightfor- 

 ward and clever at his business. 



Willie Dale is a boy who is going to make his mark on 

 the turf. 



Roscoe Troxler is one of the best boys that ever be- 

 strode a thoroughbred. His brother Johnny is a good rider 

 and a fine trainer. 



James Beauchamp is fast getting to the front and is a 

 good rider. 



George Cochran comes of a race of riders, and his rel- 

 atives have always distinguished themselves on the turf. 

 Little George is going to be a great man some day. 



There are hundreds of other riders who might also be 

 mentioned, but they have not aspired to the highest honors 

 and have been content to win a race now and then. They 

 are all good boys, however, and some of them may be sur- 

 prises. 



I have neglected to speak of Johnny Mooney, of St. 

 Louis, a boy who is now too heavy to ride, but was once 

 noted for his cleverness in the saddle. 



Some of the men as trainers of horses who have figured 

 most prominently in making turf history, in both the old 

 and the modern school, appear to me at this time I mean 

 representative men, who in every feature of their business 

 added " lustre," if not greater confidence, national and in- 

 ternational, in the high and refined motives which have at all 

 stages influenced the gentlemen at the head in management 

 of the American turf. If I were to attempt to enumerate 

 all who are worthy to be recorded in this list, it would be 

 quite as long as the moral law ; therefore, I will confine my 

 remarks in mentioning but a few of the more prominent in 

 both schools. The old school abounded in such men as 

 Arthur Taylor, Captain John Belcher, Boston, trainer; both 

 of these were from Virginia, and came up inthe Wm, R. John- 

 son School; Bob Wooden, George R.Walden, Bony Young, 

 John Alcock, of whom there is a pretty little story told as 

 follows in connection with Mr. Wm. R. Johnson, who was 

 once running his celebrated horse Duane against a horse 

 that had been trained by young Alcock, and was but little 

 known at that time, but afterwards became famous; but a 



