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advantage being taken of the stretches of beautiful down 

 land, whose turf affords such splendid going all the year 

 round. Danebury, so long the home of the Cannon family, 

 and, before them, of the Days, has lately been vacated 

 by Tom Cannon and his sons, and taken over by Mr. 

 W. H. Moore, the trainer of Why Not, The Soarer, and 

 Manifesto — all Grand National winners of recent date. 

 Danebury was in its glory some forty years ago, and if it 

 has not been so prolific of winners during more recent times, 

 it has nevertheless turned out a large number of fair per- 

 formers, to say nothing of such crack jockeys as John Watts, 

 Mornington and Kempton Cannon, W. T. Robinson (now 

 the Foxhill trainer), and others. As a teacher of jockeyship 

 Tom Cannon has been facile princeps in our time, but of late 

 the training has been entirely entrusted to Tom Cannon, 

 jun., who now trains at Chattis Hill, some four or five miles 

 from Danebury, and quite close to Garlogs, which is the 

 property and new home of the elder Cannon. 



Also in Hampshire is the Grateley stable, presided over 

 by Captain Bewicke, with J. Powney as professional trainer. 

 Captain Bewicke's is only a moderate-sized stable, but it 

 plays a strong hand, and in 1899 won the Lincolnshire 

 Handicap with the Irish-bred General Peace, a son of 

 Galopin and Moira, who is quite one of the best handicap 

 milers of the day. When the Grateley stable brings off a 

 coup — and it generally brings off a good many in the course 

 of the year — the ring infallibly suffers; and a similar remark 

 may be made about Fallon's Netheravon establishment. A 

 " Grateley good thing " is eagerly looked for by the general 

 body of backers, but the stable knows how to keep its own 

 secrets, and a fairly good price is generally secured. 



In Berkshire and Wiltshire, more especially the latter 

 county, there are more training establishments than there 

 were some years ago. To give complete details of all these 

 stables would fill a volume, and I must be content with 

 touching lightly upon their features. Taking Berkshire first, 

 F. W. Phillips trains on the downs near Chilton, but the 

 establishment is what is known as a small stable, and 

 only minor events are as a general rule attempted. At 



