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is thoroughly up to date. I often wonder what one of the 

 old Yorkshire trainers of the early part of the century would 

 say were he to see Egerton House. Marsh belongs to the 

 most thorough class of professional trainers men who have 

 been brought up to, or have been apprenticed early in life to, 

 racing, and many of whom have gone through the rough 

 routine of stable work, followed by a course of jockeyship, 

 and who have eventually settled down as trainers. Many 

 of the present-day trainers are trainer-bred. To the general 

 public, as apart from the racing public, Marsh is best known 

 as trainer to the Prince of Wales, and for His Royal 

 Highness he has trained (amongst others) Forizel II., Thais, 

 Persimmon, and Diamond Jubilee. With Forizel II. Marsh 

 won the Manchester Cup, the Gold Vase at Ascot, the 

 Goodwood Cup, and other races, with Thais the One 

 Thousand Guineas, with Persimmon the Derby, St. Leger, 

 Ascot Cup, Eclipse Stakes, and Jockey Club Stakes, and 

 with Diamond Jubilee the Two Thousand, Derby, St. Leger, 

 Eclipse Stakes, and Newmarket Stakes, all within the space 

 of six years. This is truly a wonderful record. The Daw- 

 sons, the Pecks, the I'Ansons, Sherwoods, Cannons, Jennings, 

 and Days may be quoted ; but several others have climbed 

 the ladder from the bottom, and good men have sprung from 

 either class. There is a third class, though a small one, 

 whose success makes it heard of, which springs neither from 

 the stable nor from the family of trainers. This class may 

 be termed trainers by intuition, and a notable member of it, 

 who won more races in 1898 than any other trainer, was not 

 long since a farmer. 



Of the older school of Newmarket trainers but subse- 

 quent to the trainer-groom period John Dawson, of 

 Warren House, and James Ryan, of Green Lodge (Tom 

 Jennings having died in December, 1900), may be men- 

 tioned as first-rate exponents of the art, who have scored 

 many successes in the past ; and such as James Waugh, 

 Alfred Hayhoe, W. Jarvis, T. Leader may be quoted as 

 men of standing, who have held their own for at least a 

 couple of decades. All mentioned are Newmarket men. 

 Not so ripe in years is George Dawson, who, as the trainer 



