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was that which Fobert sent The Dutchman, at Don- 

 caster, on the Wednesday morning before he was 

 beaten for the Cup : and we doubt whether the Town 

 Moor was ever witness to a stronger one, except on 

 the Sunday, that Peirse, out of a sort of bravado, 

 gave Reveller and " the Bedale horses'* their last 

 spin, amid a perfect cloud of dust, when scarcely 

 another trainer dared even to let his lot canter. Tt is 

 not, however, every trainer who has, like Fobert, a 

 piece of genuine sound stuff to work upon. 



Occasionally trainers take a whim into their heads 

 not to let the public see their horses gallop, and bring 

 them out at most uncouth hours. Two Derby 

 horses at Newmarket, and two in the provinces, 

 have been trained on this principle during the 

 last few years, and no good has come of it. The 

 system is, in fact, as the Scotch say, " no canny," 

 and the old trainers shake their heads ominously 

 when they hear of it. 



Lord Exeter's Newmarket stables to which a 

 covered riding- school, open in the centre, and very 

 tastefully planted with trees and flowers, is annexed 

 have accommodation for forty horses or more. 

 The Duke of Bedford's, which are also remarkably 

 good, can take in fully thirty; and those which 

 were built about four years since, for Mr. Mare, are 

 on the newest and best principles. John Scott's and 

 John Day's can each take in upwards of seventy 

 horses in training, but the latter has perhaps the 

 largest number of boxes of the two. John Scott 

 succeeded Joe Ackroyd at the Whitewall stables 

 about thirty years ago, and removed thither direct 

 from Sherwood Forest. Since then the premises 

 have been very much enlarged, and the adjoining 

 premises of Belle Vue, which Job Marson senior 

 vacated when he went to Beverley, have been added 

 to them. The average charge for a horse at a train- 

 ing stable is 2 2s. per week, but a few of the smaller 



