22 The Post and the Paddock. 



william studs ; George Searle, the genius of Sledmere ; 

 Tessyman, the steerer of Euryalus and the tutor of 

 Cavendish and Windleston ; Michael Mason, of Ham- 

 bleton House ; John Lowther, alias " Black Jack," of 

 Bramham Moor ; Charles Dawson, of Silvio Hall, 

 who was well called " The famous old Jockey ;" Earl 

 Strathmore's John Lonsdale ; and William Collisson, 

 who latterly managed for Mr. James Croft of Middle- 

 ham. 



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

 junction with Harry Edwards (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. Houldsworth 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 contemporary 

 and senior, William Pierse, lived till 1839, an( i ^ s 

 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 carelessness of a 

 dispenser. Robson, the veritable Emperor of New- 

 market trainers, did not die till 1838, but he had then 

 retired ten years from the profession, and his retire- 

 ment had been marked by the presentation of a 

 splendid piece of subscription plate from the first 

 turfites of the day. Robinson, the late Joe Rogers, 

 Starling, and a host of other Newmarket celebrities, 

 were brought up in his stables, and he led seven Derby 

 winners, including Waxy, Whalebone, Whisker, and 

 Emilius, back to scale, besides ten Oaks winners. 



