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rigg's horses; Scaife, who played the same good 

 part by the Buckingham and Fitzwilliam studs ; 

 George Searle, the genius of Sledmere ; Tessyman, 

 the steerer of Euryalus and the tutor of Cavendish 

 and Windleston; Michael Mason, of Hambleton 

 House; John Lowther alias "Black Jack/' of 

 Bramham Moor ; Charles Dawson, of Silvio Hall, 

 who was well called ' ' The famous - old Jockey ; " 

 Earl Stratkmore's John Lonsdale ; and William 

 Collisson, who latterly managed for Mr. James 

 Croft, of Middleham. 



This last-named trainer, who did so much in con- 

 junction with HarryEdwards (to whose care the horses 

 were confided for a short time after his death) for the 

 "white-and-red- sleeves," of Lord Glasgow, died in 

 1828 ; and Collisson was killed shortly before, by a 

 fall from a colt he was breaking for him. John and 

 William Scott were brought up in his stables ; and 

 when Mr. Howldsworth bought Filho da Puta, after 

 the St. Leger of 1815, he recommended him to 

 transplant the brothers, as trainer and rider, to the 

 pleasant glades of Sherwood Forest. Croft was 

 for many years a sad invalid, which prevented him 

 from taking in one-third of the horses which were 

 pressed on him, and he did not even live to see his 

 forty-second birthday. His great Belle-Isle contem- 

 porary and senior, William Peirse, lived till 1839, 

 and his span would in all probability have been 

 lengthened far beyond 75 years, if he had not had 

 a dose of colchicum sent him neat, by the careless- 

 ness of a dispenser. Robson, the veritable Emperor 

 of Newmarket trainers, did not die till ] 838, but he 

 had then retired ten years from the profession, and 

 his retirement had been marked by the presentation 

 of a splendid piece of subscription plate from the 

 first turfites of the day. Robinson, the late Joe Ro- 

 gers, Starling, and a host of other Newmarket cele- 

 brities, were Drought up in his stables, and he led 



