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occasionally wins a good handicap. Then there is Tom 

 Sherwood, whose pretty establishment is situated on the 

 Downs, the gate being just beside the City and Suburban 

 starting-post. Sherwood is a brother of the late Robert 

 Sherwood, and uncle of the present trainer of that name. 

 Another Epsom trainer is Arthur Nightingall, the steeple- 

 chase jockey, and a fourth W. Holt, who wins a good many 

 races in the course of the year, and who has a smart and 

 well-arranged yard hard by the entrance to The Durdans. 

 Another Epsom trainer is C. Whitfield, whose business lies 

 among the platers ; and another is Lomas, who has charge 

 of Mr. C. C. Dormer's horses. 



Though many steeplechase nags are trained in the Mid- 

 lands, flat-racing stables are few and far between. At Exton 

 Park, in Rutlandshire, Cole has charge of the horses owned 

 by Lord Penrhyn and Mr. E. C. Clayton, and such as Noble 

 Chieftain and King's Messenger may be quoted as successful 

 Exton horses of recent times. At Bourton-on-the-Hill, in 

 Gloucestershire, ex-jockey White has the establishment 

 which was for many years the residence of the late Edwin 

 Weever, and in Damocles White has possession of a 

 smart colt. Then, again, there are several small stables at 

 Hednesford, near Rugeley, in Staffordshire, where the down 

 lands of Cannock Chase are available for training purposes. 

 Shropshire has one training stable, that of T. Wadlow, at 

 Stanton, near Shifnal. From this place came the Derby 

 winner Sir Hugo, and on the whole it may be urged that 

 Wadlow's is one of the most important of provincial stables. 

 For the late Lord Bradford the Stanton trainer won many 

 races, and though the present peer has not figured largely 

 among winning owners as yet, Wadlow nevertheless turned 

 out eleven winners of twenty races in 1899, the value of 

 which was i^5,ooo. 



On the north side of London, Royston, in Hertfordshire, 

 can boast of several stables, but those of Mr. Guy Marsh 

 and Driscoll are mostly in the cross-country line of business, 

 and at present R. G. Sherrard, who used to train at New- 

 market a dozen years ago, turns out more winners on the 

 flat than all the others put together. 



