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scored 23 gut of his 34 three-year-old, and Lord 

 Alfred, 9 out of his 24 two-year-old races, or nearly 

 three times as many as Crucifix ran. The training- 

 ground at Danebury looks as if it would never be hard 

 in any weather, though the Day lot has, we believe, had 

 to gallop occasionally on a down beyond Stockbridge, 

 in a very dry season ; while John Scott's two-mile tan 

 gallop on Langton Wold renders him equally inde- 

 pendent all summer. This gallop was only laid down 

 in 1850 ; and there has never been any other in York- 

 shire except the temporary one which William Scott 

 used in Mr. Wyse's big field at Malton, when he and 

 William Gates trained Sir Tatton Sykes for the St. 

 Leger. The "Thellusson Trust " crops now wave 

 upon the little Pigburn racecourse, where John 

 Scott was wont to adjourn with his lot, during the 

 dry season, for nearly twenty years, and billet them, 

 horse and boy, among three or four of the Brodsworth 

 farmers. Newminster, who had good reason to re- 

 member one of these mornings, did not return to 

 Pigburn after his York defeat ; but no less than seven 

 of John Scott's St. Leger winners, beginning with 

 Margrave, had the finishing touches put to them there, 

 and made their six-mile pilgrimages to Doncaster to 

 run their trials, when the Newmarket of the North 

 was still deep in dreams, and not a soul except the 

 landlord of the Salutation and the corporation ste- 

 ward was cognizant of their stealthy approach, in the 

 grey morning mist, down the Carr House lane. 

 Frank Butler was invariably on the trial horse ; and 

 Earl Derby used to slip down after the house was up, 

 by the mail train to Swinton with a friend, and 

 form, one of the select group at the post. Ilsley, 

 Holywell, Hambleton, Hungerford, and Richmond, 

 have " good -going/' and are superior in this respect 

 to Hednesford, Delamere Forest, and Langton Wolds. 

 The Low Moor at Middleham is often dry, being 

 upon a rocky substratum, and hence, in summer the 



