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years head lad to Charles Jousiffe (the trainer of Bendigo 

 and Surefoot), has a fairly large team under his charge ; 

 but a more important Wiltshire establishment is that of 

 W. T, Robinson, at Foxhill, near Lyddington, where there are 

 some of the finest downs in the Southern Counties. Robinson, 

 who for several years was first jockey to Captain Machell, 

 and who rode a brace of St. Leger winners in Kilwarlin and 

 Seabreeze, has only been a trainer for some half-dozen years, 

 but during that time he has been very successful in big 

 handicaps ; and he probably made his name as a trainer 

 more quickly than any of his competitors have done, 

 though in the matter of stake money won he has not yet 

 approached George Dawson's figures. That great horse 

 Clorane, who won the Lincolnshire Handicap with the record 

 weight of 9 st. 4 lbs., was Robinson's first strong card ; and 

 in 189s he won the Royal Hunt Cup with Mr. Basset's horse, 

 and two months later the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood with 

 Wise Virgin for the same owner. In the following year 

 Clorane took the Lincolnshire Handicap, just referred to, and 

 Winkfield's Pride the Cambridgeshire for the Foxhill stable ; 

 and in 1897 Winkfield's Pride credited the establishment 

 with a second Lincolnshire Handicap, while a year later 

 Foxhill threw a third main in the same race, when it won 

 the first big handicap of the year with Prince Barcaldine. 

 The victory of the last-named was followed by the Jubilee 

 Stakes success of Dinna Forget, who also won the Liverpool 

 Summer Cup in the same year ; and thus it will be seen that 

 during the four years from 1895 to 1898 inclusive Robinson 

 had an extraordinary share of handicap success. 



Another Wiltshire establishment is that of Messrs. T. and 

 A. Taylor, at Manton, near Marlborough, and at present some 

 forty thoroughbreds are located at the famous stables, where 

 the late Alec Taylor (father of the present trainers) made so 

 big a mark. Of the many successes of Alec Taylor I need 

 not write much. He trained for the Duke of Beaufort, for 

 Mr. Stirling Crawford and the Duchess of Montrose, and 

 for many other magnates of a bygone generation. He 

 was always famous for turning out stayers, and particularly 

 devoted his attention to long-distance races. Since the death 



