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greatest races, and whose names deserve to be 

 handed down to posterity quite as much as those 

 of the horses themselves, or, at any rate, of the 

 riders, and even more, has been at infinite pains 

 to discover who those trainers were in the case of 

 the Derby, the Oaks, and the St. Leger, and has 

 pubHshed his discoveries in the book already 

 referred to. With his assistance, therefore, when- 

 ever it was necessary, the following information 

 has been gleaned for the benefit of all whom it 

 may concern. 



Of the winners of the Derby, Diomed, Eleanor, 

 and Smolensko were trained ' privately ' (which 

 appears to mean that the trainer's name has not 

 been recorded) at Sir C. Bunbury's, Great Barton, 

 Suffolk, though Crouch is said to have trained 

 Smolensko ; Young Eclipse and Serjeant ' pri- 

 vately ' at Epsom ; Assassin, Saltram, Noble, Sir 

 Thomas (sold, after running once and winning at 

 two years of age, to the Prince of Wales for 

 2,000 guineas), Sir Harry, Hannibal, Cardinal 

 Beaufort, and Election, at Newmarket, by F. 

 Neale ; Aimwell, Rhadamanthus, John Bull, and 

 Daedalus, at Newmarket, by J. Pratt; Sir Peter 

 (Teazle) at Tarporley, Cheshire, by the elder 



