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of Ayrshire, Donovan, Memoir, Amiable, Mrs. Butterwick, 

 etc., and whose stable won i^2 50,000 in stake money in the 

 space of twelve years, stands out as one who has achieved 

 a most remarkable series of successes within a few short 

 years. George Dawson, whose horses were always easy to 

 tell in a paddock, so pronounced was their polish, has lately 

 vacated Heath House (which was secured by the Anglo- 

 American confederacy over which the late Lord William 

 Beresford presided, and for whom the American Huggins 

 acted as trainer), and appears to have given up training. 

 Young Newmarket trainers who have been much to the 

 front of late may be mentioned in Robert Sherwood, John 

 Watson, and Blackwell. The first-named, who succeeded his 

 father, the rider of Wild Dayrell in the Derby of 1855, and 

 latterly a most successful trainer, has won many races in 

 recent years, and so too have Watson and Blackwell. 

 Watson is a son of the late James Watson, of Belle Isle, 

 Richmond (in Yorkshire). He trains almost exclusively for 

 Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, and can boast of having won 

 the Brocklesby Stakes at Lincoln four years in succession. 

 Blackwell made a mark with the ex-selling plater Chaleu- 

 reux, winner of the Caesarewitch and Manchester November 

 Handicap in 1898, and in 1900 he did very well. Other 

 most capable men are Charles Archer, brother of the late 

 famous jockey ; Joseph Cannon, younger brother of Tom 

 Cannon, of Danebury ; Thomas Jennings, jun. ; John 

 Dawson, jun. ; Joseph Enoch, as a general rule good to 

 follow at Redcar and Stockton ; C. W. Golding, who since 

 M. Lebaudy's retirement trains exclusively for Sir E. 

 Cassel ; Michael Gurry ; Percy Peck, who trains for Lord 

 Durham alone ; S. Pickering ; A. B. Sadler ; and Fred 

 Webb, the ex-jockey. In addition there are two of James 

 Waugh's sons — C. Waugh and W. Waugh. George Chaloner 

 has recently acquired a stable full of horses ; and Richard 

 Chaloner, who has been a cross-country jockey, has charge of 

 a small string at headquarters. There are also at the moment 

 two Days at Newmarket — F. W. Day, of Australia, who 

 won the Oaks and Cambridgeshire in 1898, with Airs and 

 Graces and Georgic, and Joseph Day. A. Cort is private 



