22 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



CHAPTER II. 



TRAINERS AND JOCKEYS. 



" There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the 

 prophets, until, on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only ex- 

 patiating on the merits of a brown horse." Bracebridge Hall. 



j|\ S a trainer, and judge of the horse, John Hut- 

 ^\ ehinson, the breeder of Hambletonian, held 

 the very highest place among his brother- Yorkshire- 

 men in the eighteenth century. His first venture on 

 Miss Western for "The Guineas" at Hambleton, 

 when he was only fifteen, included every halfpenny 

 he possessed in the world ; and when he had led his 

 chestnut charge home, and counted and jingled his 

 winnings in his hat for minutes, he tossed the whole 

 of it on to the corn-bin, and exclaimed " There, 

 thank God I shall never want money again !" Early 

 betting success is happily a reed, which pierces a 

 young man's hand, if he leans againsc it; but in 

 this case, the ejaculation proved prophetic, and when 

 he died at three-score-and-ten, in the November of 

 1806, he left a very large fortune behind him. Lord 

 Grosvenor and Mr. Peregrine Wentworth were his 

 earliest employers, and his own best horses were 

 trained on Langton Wold, except during three of 

 the summer months, when they changed the venue 

 to Hambleton. Among the other well-known 

 Northern trainers of the period, were Isaac Cape, of 

 Tupgill; Hoyle, of Ashgill; Christopher Jackson, 

 the trainer of Matchem and John Pratt of Ask- 



