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Other Malton trainers are Charles Lund, who trains for 

 Lord Harewood, Major Joicey, and others ; Binnie, whose 

 patrons are mostly Scotchmen ; Bruckshaw, whose principal 

 patron until quite lately was Lord Decies ; William Sander- 

 son, who has recently won a lot of races with the stock of 

 Breadknife ; and Tinsley, whose establishment is the smallest 

 of the lot. All the above use Langton Wold for their gallop- 

 ing ground, and all turn out a good proportion of winners, 

 though they seldom come south of the Midlands. 



Middleham has known so many changes of late that it 

 is hardly recognisable as the place it was. Fred Bates, who 

 trained so long for Sir Robert Jardine and Mr. Bibby, has 

 retired, and T. Weldon, the trainer-jockey, has taken Tup- 

 gill. Bates was always a dangerous man when he fancied 

 one of his charges, and at Ascot for many years he was in 

 the habit of making a big mark. How many Ascot Stakes 

 winners he actually trained I am not quite certain, but he 

 won the race twice with Teviotdale, once with Ishmael, 

 twice with Lord Lome, and once with Enniskillen, all within 

 the space of fourteen years. Then too Harry Hall and 

 Drislane not long ago went over to the majority, and as 

 a matter of fact the veteran John Osborne and Dobson 

 Peacock are the only Middleham trainers who have been 

 there more than a year or two. John Osborne, who lives 

 at Brecongill, on the south side of Middleham low moor, 

 and overlooking the Coverdale Valley, has been more or less 

 a trainer all his life, for in his early riding days he lived with 

 his father, old John Osborne, and after the decease of the 

 last-named he was in partnership with his brothers Robert 

 and William. Since John Osborne gave up riding in public 

 he has conducted a small stable with marked success, and 

 in 1898, for example, he trained half a dozen winners of 

 eleven races. His trump card was King Crow, who within 

 a few weeks won the Great Northern Handicap, the Man- 

 chester Cup, and the Northumberland Plate, and it is a 

 thousand pities that this fine stayer could not afterwards 

 stand training. He ran in the Caesarewitch, but pulled up 

 very lame. John Osborne is quite of the old school of 

 trainers, but he has nothing to learn from the younger 



