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continued to the present time. In fact he has trained so many winners 

 he does not remember even all his great wins, but they include : — 



This shows that, like Scott, he could train for all distances, but h& 

 never trained the winner of the Cambridgeshire, Ascot Stakes, or 

 Goodwood Stakes. 



The following are a few of the horses with which this great trainer 

 has shown sport to the British race-goer for the past half-century; 

 and, with the exception of John Scott, no other man ever saddled 

 such a lot of nailers: — Windhound, Thormanby, Kingcraft, Wheel of 

 Fortune, Jannette, Dutch Oven, Silvio, Minting, St. Simon, Melton, 

 Julius, Alice Hawthorne, Sterling, Catherine Hayes, Hobbie Noble,. 

 Lord of the Isles, Galliard, Lioness, Scottish Chief, Liddington, 

 Zambesi, Student, Speculum, Thunder, Camballo, Cherie, Master 

 Kildare, Lady Golightly, Gertrude, Farnese, Necromancer (which he 

 bred), Rosy Morn, Langwell, Saunterer, Atlantis, Atlantic, Charibert,. 

 Spina way, Skjlark, Queen's Messenger, Bal Gal, Childeric, Busybody,. 

 Harvester, Garterley Bell, The Lambkin, Mimi, Buckstone, and 

 Sunbeam. 



He has now been fifty-three years actively employed in his profession, 

 and during all that time he has enjoyed the patronage of most, and the 

 unlimited confidence of all the best supporters of the Turf. Among those 

 who patronised him I may mention, in addition to those already named, 

 the Dukes of Newcastle, St. Albans, Hamilton, and Portland, the 

 Marquis of Londonderry, Lords Strafford, Fitzwilliam, Hastings, Fal- 

 mouth, Lascelles, Charles Beresford, Piosebery, and Rosslyn, Messrs^ 

 R. C. Naylor, Henry Padwick, Clare Yyner, and his brother Robert. 



His greatest patron of all was Lord Falmouth, with whose horses and 

 Fred Archer jockey, Mat Dawson ran up for that nobleman a fifteen- 

 year record, 1869 to 1884, unequalled in the annals of racing. Besides- 

 nearly all the two-year-old races and some of the principal handicaps the 

 "magpie and scarlet" was first past the post in the Two Thousand 

 Guineas three times, Derby twice, Oaks four times, St. Leger thrice, and 

 the Clearwell Stakes no less than nine times. Within the years 1877 

 and 1881 alone, the stakes won by Lord Falmouth's horses, trained by 

 Mat Dawson and ridden by Archer, amounted to Xl 25,752. The grand 

 sum totalled about a quarter of a million, and these were days previous 

 to races of £5,000 and £10,000 stakes. 



When in the full swing of good luck. Lord Falmouth all of a sudden 

 conceived the idea of giving up not alone racing, but breeding horses ; 

 and determined to sell off everything he had in training, as well as. 



