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Filho da Puta to Mr. Houldsworth, he accompanied the 

 horse to Sherwood Forest, where he remained for some 

 years. Subsequently, John Scott took Joe Ackroyd's 

 stables at Whitewall, and considerably increased their 

 accommodation. He then moved to Belle Vue, and 

 constructed a tan gallop, two miles long and three inches 

 deep, on the training ground — thus introducing a new 

 feature in the arrangements of such establishments in York- 

 shire. Among the many celebrated horses which issued 

 from his stables, his favourite was Cyprian, and the best, 

 probably, was West Australian (winner of Gold Cup, 1854); 

 Satirist and Touchstone were also trained by him. Many 

 of the most influential patrons of the Turf entrusted their 

 interests to Scott, and Colonel Anson, Lord Derby, Lord 

 Exeter, Lord Chesterfield, and Mr. Petre were amongst 

 the owners whose horses were trained in his establishment. 

 Francis, Birkbeck, Holmes, Charlton, and Simpson were 

 his pupils, and F. Butler, Templeman, and Flatman were 

 indebted to him for many valuable opportunities of 

 enhancing their fame. He died in 1870. 



During the i8th, and for the first twenty years of the 

 19th century, little or no record was kept of the jockeys 

 who rode at race meetings. Among the more famous of 

 those that donned the colours on the Ascot turf of a 

 hundred years ago, we find the names ofArnull, Goodison, 

 Buckle, Wheatley, Dockeray, G. and J. Day, and the 

 younger Chifney. From the records of 1823 we gather 

 that Goodison won, in all, seven races at Ascot, amongst 

 them the Albany, Swinley, and Oatlands Stakes, His 

 Majesty's Plate, and a match for 300 sovs. Dockeray, 

 another of that early group, was still more successful, his 



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