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generation, and considering that costly and fashionably-bred 

 yearlings are unknown at Brecongill, he fairly holds his 

 own. 



Dobson Peacock has now the largest stable at Middleham, 

 having succeeded to much of Harry Hall's business. He is 

 a painstaking and capable man, and I never saw a horse 

 turned out in finer condition than his Xury was when 

 Grey Leg just beat him in the City and Suburban in 

 1894. Peacock's stables are in the town of Middleham, but 

 W. Swann has Spigot Lodge, where Harry Hall lived, on 

 the north side of the low moor, while T. Connor is at 

 Thorngill. W. Ridley also has charge of a small string, 

 and the latest new-comer is Tom Chaloner, the trainer of 

 Marco, who has some half-dozen horses, the property of 

 Mr. Smith Ryland. As a general rule the Middleham 

 training is got through on the low moor, but there is fine 

 going on the high moor, further away from the town, and, 

 as the name suggests, at a higher altitude. 



Richmond-trained horses are seldom heard of nowadays, 

 and since the race meetings ceased the moor above the 

 pretty Yorkshire town has been little utilised for training 

 purposes. Thomas Lunn still has charge of a small 

 team, and Latham, the steeplechase jockey, looks after a 

 longish string of cross-country nags, most of whom are 

 owned by Mr. J. Monro Walker. At Bainesse, close by 

 Catterick, Swainstone trains a few home-bred ones for Mr. 

 David Cooper, and at Kirkbank Hall, some few miles from 

 Richmond, Marriner trains privately for Mr. N. H. Scott. 

 Richmond Moor, however, is not requisitioned for Swain- 

 stone's or Marriner's horses, and truth to tell Richmond only 

 plays a modest hand in the game of modern racing. 



Another old-time Yorkshire training quarter is Hambleton 

 Moor, situated some few miles east of Thirsk, but on the 

 summit of the moorland range, and not in the great plain 

 of York which travellers going North know so well. Since 

 the death of the veteran Tom Green there has only been 

 one stable at Hambleton, that of J. Vasey, which wins in 

 its turn on the Northern Circuit. At one time Green was 

 trainer to the late Lord Durham, and in his day he held his 



