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and W. Raisin are in residence, and at Wantage there are 

 no fewer than six trainers, viz. Hornsby, Robson, C. Morton, 

 G. Clement, H. Luke, and VV. Stanley. Hornsby presides 

 over a large and very successful stable, and in 1898 was 

 responsible for thirty winners of forty-four races, while 

 Robson had fourteen winners of twenty -three events. 

 H. Luke, who has only a small string, is the ex-jockey who 

 won the Two Thousand Guineas on Petrarch, and is also 

 the father of the light-weight of the same name ; and 

 C. Morton was at one time private trainer to the late Mr. 

 George Abington Baird, and has trained a host of good 

 winners in his time. He has just lately acquired a very 

 large stable of valuable horses, and in the future may be 

 expected to do great things for his employers. 



At Ogbourne, in Wiltshire, but quite close to Lambourn, 

 are Charles Peck and F. Lynham. The first-named, a son 

 of the late Robert Peck and a brother of Percy Peck, who 

 trains for Lord Durham, has inherited the family talent, 

 and is quickly making a name for himself. In 1898 he 

 trained the winners of eighteen races, and amongst them 

 was Herminius, a rare staying son of Lowland Chief and 

 Herminia, who won the Ascot Stakes and other good races, 

 and who in the spring of 1899 won the Manchester Cup in 

 a hack canter with 8 st. 13 lbs. in the saddle. Herminius, 

 who was bred by Lord Ellesmere, was bought out of a selling 

 race for less than ^^300 by Mr. John Hammond ; and it is 

 a great feather in Charles Peck's cap that with such a cheap 

 horse he should have won two of the greatest long-distance 

 handicaps. Lynham has been training for many years, and 

 curiously enough he had won the Chester Cup for one of his 

 patrons with Uncle Mac (late Northallerton) only a fortnight 

 before his neighbour secured the Manchester Cup. Nor 

 was this Lynham's first taste of Chester sweets (Cheshire 

 cheese would be perhaps more appropriate, with a cheese 

 going to first, second, and third in the race), as he had trained 

 Windsor when that mare won for Sir John Astley in 1881. 



I have mentioned Ogbourne first of the Wiltshire training 

 quarters because of its close proximity to several of the 

 Berkshire establishments, but most people would probably 



