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backwards and forwards from England to France, and getting 

 them to run up to their best form in both countries within a 

 few hours of their arrival from a long land and sea voyage, 

 Tom Jennings has had no rival for the last thirty years. 



To these giants of the past a younger generation of trainers, 

 not inferior in merit to their able predecessors, is rapidly suc- 

 ceeding. At Newmarket, Joseph Cannon, private trainer to 

 Lord Rosebery ; Hayhoe, acting in the same capacity to Mr. 

 Leopold de Rothschild ; Gilbert, who trains for Lord Cadogan ; 

 Charles Archer, who numbers ' Mr. Manton ' among his em- 

 ployers ; and young John Dawson, who is patronised by Lord 

 Ellesmere and Mr. Rupert Carrington, give excellent promise 

 of attaining the highest position in their trying profession. At 

 Danebury, Thomas Cannon, although blessed thus far with 

 little luck, is so intelligent and well-mannered, and has such 

 sympathy with the horses under his charge, that we trust a 

 revival through his agency of the ancient glories of the Stock- 

 bridge Downs is not far distant in the future. John Porter, 

 honoured at Kingsclere with the distinguished patronage of 

 the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Westminster, maintains 

 the record of triumphs he won in Sir Joseph Hawley's era. 

 The mention of Sir Joseph Hawley also specially calls to mind 

 Alex. Taylor, of Manton, a thoroughly honest and most capable 

 man, who has in his time done admirable service for Sir 

 Joseph, Mr. George Payne, Mr. Charles Greville, the Marquis 

 of Ailesbury, Mr. Stirling Crawfurd, of bygone celebrities, and 

 still gives the most complete satisfaction to the Duke of Beau- 

 fort, Mr. ' Manton,' and other employers. Among the many 

 races which have been won by horses under Alex. Taylor's care 

 may be mentioned the Derbies of 1851 with Teddington and 

 of 1878 with Sefton ; the Oaks of 1881 with Thebais ; the St. 

 Leger of 1860 with St. Albans, and of 1878 with Craig Millar. 

 At Beckhampton, young Sam Darling has enlarged and 

 improved the stables formerly occupied by the horses of Sir 

 William Gregory and Mr. Graham, and bids fair soon to turn 

 out another Clermont, and another Regalia and Formosa. At 



