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seventies he was at Lordship Farm, where he gathered experience for some sixteen 

 years, when Joseph Cannon took on the place. But when Lord Ellesmere built 

 Egerton House in 1892, Marsh really had his opportunity. The large and 

 roomy stables over which he presides are most conveniently situated just beyond 

 the July course on the Cambridge Road, within two miles of the Newmarket Post 

 Office, and certainly form one of the smartest establishments of the kind hitherto 

 constructed. There is accommodation for about eighty horses in the boxes and 

 stalls that surround its two huge courtyards, and just outside them is a large square 



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From a photograph taken at Sandringham. 

 Reproduced by permission of His Majesty the King. 



' Perdita II. ' 



paddock for walking exercise. With its avenues of Scotch firs and light, sandy 

 soil, there is no touch of dampness or malaria in the place, which is very little 

 affected by fog. Better buildings it would be scarcely possible to devise, and it 

 would be difficult to imagine the sentiments of old Tom Parr of Wantage, or 

 the Yorkshire trainers of the early nineteenth century, if they could behold the 

 developments of modern racing in this particular direction. They might prefer 

 Fisherman, and his kind, to all the luxuries for man and beast which we seem 

 to have agreed to consider more essential than producing the old stamp of stayer ; 



