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Lambourne, Humphreys and Jousiffe are steady, careful, and 

 vigilant trainers ; while at Stanton, Thomas Wadlovv still ex- 

 hibits the same skill and secrecy which long ago won him the 

 favour of the first Lord Wilton, and of that superlative judge 

 of racing, Colonel Henry Forester. 



Finally, there is one trainer the doyen of his profession 

 who has just retired from the command of the largest and most 

 successful training establishment in the world, to enjoy, we hope, 

 many years of well-earned repose. It is now not far from six- 

 and-forty years since Matthew Dawson accompanied Lord Kel- 

 burne's Pathfinder from Gulhane in Scotland to Epsom, where 

 the colt ran unplaced for the Derby of 1840. From that day 

 to this the same experienced trainer has been actively and 

 laboriously engaged in the pursuit of a profession which has 

 brought him abundant laurels, and crowned him with as many 

 triumphs as ever fell to any of his predecessors or contem- 

 poraries. To enumerate the winners of the Derby, Oaks, St. 

 Leger, Two Thousand, One Thousand, and of a hundred other 

 races winners which have come forth from Matthew 7 Dawson's 

 stables at Middleham, Russley, and Newmarket were equi- 

 valent, in Virgil's phrase, ' to counting the waves which beat on 

 the Libyan shore.' The last year of his career at Heath House 

 witnessed, perhaps, the proudest of Matthew Dawson's many 

 triumphs. With Melton, despite the horse's bowed sinew, he 

 carried off the Derby and St. Leger ; with Minting, one of the 

 biggest and heaviest two-year-olds that ever ran, he achieved 

 five victories without once experiencing the bitterness of 

 defeat. As Sir Joshua Reynolds, lecturing for the last time at 

 the Royal Academy, desired that the final words syllabled by 

 his lips in that place should be ' the immortal name of Michael 

 Angelo,' so we cannot end this necessarily brief and imperfect 

 disquisition upon trainers more appropriately than by recom- 

 mending future votaries of that arduous craft to emulate the 

 unblemished integrity, the strict attention to duty, and the 

 large-hearted sympathy which have won world-wide fame for 

 Matthew Dawson. 



