A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



studied training with Tiny Edwards at Mickleham in Surrey ; and finally he came 

 to Middleham in 1814 to become as great a Yorkshire idol as was John Gully 

 of Somerset. He began at Black Hambleden, and after a move to the Rufford 

 country with Mr. Houldsworth, he got the Whitewall Stables in 1825, and trained 

 his horses on the springy turf of Langton Wold, where the Marquis of Rockingham's 

 thoroughbreds had been exercised before him. Mr. Edward Petre's Matilda, 

 The Colonel, and Rowton began his fame ; and he never looked back. He was 

 immensely assisted by his brother Bill, who died within a quarter of a mile of the 



" Stockwcir by " The Baron " (1847). 



stables, at Highfield House, in 1848, not long after Lord George Bentinck had so 

 suddenly passed away. For the thirty-three years of his profession he was the most 

 fortunate jockey as yet known to a racing world which knew not Archer. Both he 

 and John were presented to Queen Victoria when she rode over from Esher to 

 Leatherhead, with Prince Albert, to interview Cotherstone. Though not a powerful, 

 or even a brilliant jockey, he had a fine seat, and was a keen judge of pace, the two 

 things most essential to one who had the pick of so magnificent a stable. He lies 

 beneath a stone without any inscription, under the aisle of Waghen Church. His 



