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Beatty's stable, and J. E. Watts (whose father thought Persimmon the best he ever 

 rode) soon showed that he had inherited a good share of talent by his successes, 

 when only fifteen years of age, on the horses trained by Richard Marsh. His best 

 race was on Ballantrae for the Cambridgeshire against Morny Cannon. H. Randall, 

 a good amateur in his day, had the luck to get Sceptre as a professional, besides 

 winning on Quintessence for Lord Falmouth ; and Herbert Jones showed that his 

 Diamond Jubilee victories were no fluke by successes on Orchid. The changes 

 produced between 1897 and 1902 will be best seen from the following table of the 

 winning mounts for those years, the absence of S. Loates being accounted for by his 

 severe accident at Northampton in 1901 : 



In this list it is worth noting that George McCall achieved the remarkable feat of 

 winning all five events on the card at Beverley, in October, 1901, and bringing home 

 the favourite in every case but one, and this with fields of average size on an ordinary 

 programme ; neither in events of only two or three competitors as sometimes were 

 seen forty years before, nor in a day's racing which began at eleven in the morning 

 and included several matches, as was the case with George Fordham or Jimmy 

 Grimshaw. An instance of the opposite kind may be quoted in the Thursday of the 

 July Meeting in 1836, when a ^,"50 Plate, over the Ditch-In was the solitary item. 



* Riding as an amateur in these years. 



