4 MALTOX. 



In training, Malton is still to the fore, and 

 Hutchinson and the Scotts have no ordinary suc- 

 cessors in the trainers who now gallop their horses 

 on what remains of Lano'ton Wold. But if 

 Malton has held its own so far as racing is con- 

 cerned, it has made vast strides in breeding, and 

 the sporting natives will always relate with pride 

 that the dam of Ormonde, herself a racehorse of 

 the first rank, was bred at Mr. Snarry's prett}^ 

 paddocks at Norton. The Newstead Stud has 

 become one of the most important in the country, 

 and although it does not assume the gigantic pro- 

 portions of some of its more pretentious rivals, it 

 has turned out rather more than its share of great 

 winners. The history of Mr. Snarry's breeding 

 establishment is closely connected with the his- 

 tory of Agnes, by Clarion, and her descendants ; 

 itself more like a romance than a veritable history. 



The late John Osborne purchased Annette, 

 with Agnes running at her foot, at Shrewsbury 

 for fifteen guineas, and a lucky purchase she 

 turned out to be. A^nes was a bio- well-ofrown 

 foal, and developed into a famous yearling. As 

 a two-year-old she was highly tried, indeed her 

 owner considered her to be about the best of her 

 year ; and even now Osborne thinks her to have 

 been one of the best two-year-olds they ever had 

 at Ashgill, a fact which her trial went a long wa}'' 

 to establish. She was a big-framed, light-fieshed 

 mare, with M'ide and rather ragged hips, some- 



