BRITISH STABLES AND FOREIGN METHODS. 



instance, Joseph Enoch, died at his training-establishment on the day when His 

 Majesty King- Edward VII. was making his first appearance on a racecourse (with 

 Ambush II. at Kempton Park) since the lamented death of Queen Victoria. The 

 stirring days with which Enoch had been associated at Danebury have been already 

 hinted at. He achieved many successes later on with the Earl of Zetland and 

 Mr. James Lowther, though it may be doubted whether he had ever such material 

 to work upon again. His kind-hearted geniality will for long be missed at New- 

 market. John Watts, who died all too soon at the early age of forty-one, was a 

 jockey at Danebury when there were so many good riders that he was chiefly 

 employed in carrying 

 letters to the post-office. 

 But he never foro-ot 



o 



his early apprenticeship 



with Tom Cannon, and 



began to do well with 



some of his first masters, 



the Duke of Hamilton 



and the Marquis of 



Zetland. His win on 



the penalised Foxhall 



for the Cambridgeshire 



of '8 1 brought him into 



strong prominence, and 



he made his mark with 



Marsh's stable at Newmarket, especially on His Majesty's Persimmon. He was a 



fine example of the old school of riding, on which it will be difficult ever to improve. 



Thomas Jennings, whom we lost in December, 1900, was an example of a trainer 

 who was almost as much concerned with Continental as with English racing. He 

 was as well known in Italy as in France, and it was a sudden visit of his to the latter 

 country which probably preserved Gladiateur to the Turf. For that great horse, 

 who scarcely passed a week of his life without showing lameness, and could never be 

 properly trained, was gifted with an ugly enlargement on one of the joints of his 

 off fore leg as a yearling. Jennings advised Charles Pratt to "let Nature take its 

 course," and this proved to be the right course. Nothing but " Nature" could have 

 helped an animal with chronic navicular disease to do what he did. 



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" Lord Clifden " by " Newminster " (1860). 



