A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



When John Bowes died in 1885 many people forgot that, as "Mr. Valentine," 

 Lord Falmouth had had Hurricane and Queen Bertha at Whitewall ; the first won 

 the One Thousand of 1862, the second won the Oaks in 1863 ; they were the two 

 last of the great winners trained by "the Wizard of the North." Since Blair Athol 

 had won the Derby and the St. Leger, Jenny Hoiuletfs chance victory in the Oaks 

 of 1880 was almost the only good thing from Malton before John Bowes died. For 

 nearly half a century the home of John Scott, for twenty years after that the home 



of his widow, Whitewall 

 House seems never likely 

 to train another winner 

 in its stables (1903). The 

 Musley Bank establish- 

 ment has been given up 

 as well, where Mr. James 

 Snarry, son of old Sir 

 Tatton Sykes's stud- 

 groom, used to breed 

 and train. One of the 

 presents John Snarry 

 had received was Polly 



" Queen Bertha* by "Kingston" (1860). Agnes, whose blood went 



back to the Spot mare 



foaled in 1762. She was the dam of Lily Agnes (by Macaroni], dam of Ormonde, 

 and she stamped her excellence upon one of the most famous families of brood 

 mares on the Turf. 



It is curious that so few of the past Yorkshire trainers were Yorkshire bred ; 

 John Scott, the Dawsons, John Fobert, and old John Osborne were all born further 

 south. When Osborne came to Ashgill in 1837, he found John Fobert at Spigot 

 Lodge, where General Chasst! was, whose great rival and conqueror was Lord 

 Sligo's Bran, trained by Murphy not far off. At Brecongill, Tupgill, and Thorngill 

 in turn the name of the Dawsons was well known, and from there came Ardrossan, 

 sire of Jack Spigot and of Beeswings dam, and Charles XII., Our Nell, Blue 

 Bonnet, Van Tromp, and Lanercost. The brothers Tom and John Dawson at 

 Middleham also trained such famous racers as Priestess, Rowcna, E Her dale, 

 Ellermire, Ellington, Jonathan Wild, Grimston, and St. Bennett; and it is 



