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was his brother, Thomas Dawson, of Middleham, 

 who was the first to abstain from the practice, and it 

 was afterwards carried into effect by all the brothers. 

 I don't think we have ever seen their equals, take 

 them altogether, as trainers. Matthew was the best 

 trainer of a two-year-old, I think, I ever knew. 

 Thomas, as anyone old enough to remember him 

 five-and-twenty or thirty years ago will agree, was 

 very hard to beat in the North, where he had some 

 real good rivals to compete with, among them John 

 Scott, John Osborne, and John Fobert ; he was a 

 very clever as well as a successful trainer, especially 

 for a long race. Joseph, whom I have just pre- 

 viously mentioned, was a very shrewd man indeed 

 when he trained at Ilsley thirty years ago. No one 

 won more races or placed their horses better than 

 he did ; and it was a lucky day when Lord Stamford 

 selected him for his private trainer. This was 

 proved by the success he had, 



John Dawson (of course, I am speaking of the 

 elder one) also migrated from Compton, on the 

 Berkshire Downs, to Newmarket, where he, like his 

 brothers, has been pretty successful, being the trainer 

 of ' Galopin ' amongst other good horses belonging to 

 the late Prince Batthyany, to whom he was private 

 trainer for a long time — in fact, up to his death. 



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