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establishments ; and it is quite the regulation thing for 

 those with a taste for hunting to spend the winter in the 

 shires or other favourable district. That a jockey can attain 

 to these things by his ability alone, without deviating by a 

 hair's breadth from the path of probity, we happily have 

 proof; therefore it is a pity that cause should exist for the 

 suspicion that other courses are at times adopted. 



Nearly one-third of the horses that run each year in 

 England are trained at Newmarket, and Newmarket just 

 holds its own with the country training quarters in the 

 matter of stake money won. The place, at the present 

 moment, is not quite so popular with owners as it was a few 

 years ago. By some it is reasonably urged that there are 

 too many horses at Newmarket, and it is a fact that fever 

 among them is more common there than it is at other 

 training quarters ; but I am inclined to think that no training 

 ground in the kingdom is as good as the Limekilns, which 

 affords good going at every season of the year, and is only 

 impossible when frost-bound or covered with snow. New- 

 market as a training centre varies in its successes just as 

 much as other training grounds do ; it has its good and 

 its bad years. Sometimes Newmarket-trained horses carry 

 everything before them, as in 1898, when the winners of the 

 Two Thousand Guineas, One Thousand Guineas, Derby, and 

 Oaks were trained there. To Newmarket also went the 

 three ;^ 10,000 stakes of that year by the aid of Goletta, 

 Velasquez, and Cyllene, and at Ascot such races as the Gold 

 Vase, Prince of Wales' Stakes, Royal Hunt Cup, Rous 

 Memorial Stakes, and Alexandra Plate, to say nothing 

 of minor events. In handicaps Newmarket-trained horses 

 were successful in the Great Metropolitan, City and Suburban, 

 Stewards' Cup, Goodwood Plate, Brighton Stakes and Cup, 

 Lewes Handicap, Great Ebor Handicap, Great Yorkshire 

 Handicap, Portland Plate, Newmarket October Handicap, 

 Caesarewitch, Cambridgeshire, Liverpool Spring and Autumn 

 Cups, and Manchester November Handicaps. In the last 

 twenty years Newmarket horses have won the Derby 

 fourteen times, the Oaks seventeen times, the Two Thousand 

 Guineas fifteen times, the One Thousand Guineas seventeen 



