240 Life and Times of " The Druid' 



them trained in private. Consequently 

 Fobert, who had not been much heard of 

 since General Chasse's time, was installed at 

 Spigot Lodge. Tommy Lye, whose con- 

 nection with them had ceased after the last 

 Doncaster Meeting, handed over his jacket 

 to Job Marson, who had worn it a few times 

 previously, and continued to do so with con- 

 siderable success for four seasons. Van 

 Tromp was a foal at the foot of Barbelle, his 

 dam, when Fobert brought out his first batch 

 of Eglinton two-year-olds in 1845 > but the 

 season of 1846 was the beginning of the 

 great Eglinton winning cycle. In that year 

 Nerissa won the Chesterfield Stakes ; Dolo, 

 thanks to Job Marson's powerful handling, 

 kept his legs in the North Derby at New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, when Fancy Boy and Sir 

 Tatton Sykes — both of them great favourites 

 for the coming Doncaster St. Leger — were 

 left sprawling on the glassy surface of New- 

 castle Moor ; and next day Dolo won the 

 Northumberland Plate as well. Van Tromp 

 pulled gallantly through his three two-year 

 old struggles at Liverpool, Goodwood and 

 Doncaster, but his defeat for the Derby next 



