MR. R. VICARY & MR. W. M. G. SINGER 243 



His enterprise and sporting spirit breathed new life 

 into the concern and put it upon a new and sound 

 footing. The course was improved and a permanent 

 stand erected, the whole arrangements being 

 modelled upon those at Sandown Park, though, 

 necessarily, on a smaller scale. As a result, a better 

 class of horses was attracted. Some of the best 

 riders in the kingdom were to be seen on the Marshes, 

 and the company he formed was just beginning to 

 reap its reward when the war broke out. 



At the end of the season 1900-1, the many calls 

 upon his time compelled Mr. Vicary to retire, and he 

 left Mr. Singer to carry on the mastership single- 

 handed. 



