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vrho, although he lost his money on the race, sent it 

 as a mark of his admiration of his riding.' 



The economy of training in Singleton's period can 

 be studied in Mr. Orton's sketch of that jockey s 

 career. After stating that Lord Rockingham had 

 engaged him in the double capacity of irainer and 

 jockey, and to have charge of the Marquis's stalls 

 at Mewmarket, he says: 'But during the winter 

 months the young stock were prepared and made 

 ready for going into work at Swinton, near Went- 

 worth House (the Marquis's seat), Yorkshire, by 

 one Lund, and at the conclusion of the Newmarket 

 spring meetings, when the horses' engagements were 

 run out there, and they were intended to run for stakes 

 at Doncaster and York (of both of which meetings the 

 Marquis was a great supporter), the horses were sent, 

 under Singleton's inspection, to a place called Thixen- 

 dale, near Maiton, where Singleton had purchased two 

 farms, built stables and other conveniences there for 

 training, which he considered the best ground for the 

 purpose of any in the kingdom : and from this place 

 they not uofrequently departed to win many of the 

 best stakes, and defeat most of the first-rate hoi-ses of 

 the day in Yorkshire.' There is every reason to 

 believe that Singleton — for a portion of his career, at 

 any rate — was looked upon as being the best jockey of 

 his time. He retired from a laborious hfe greatly 

 respected. His motto throughout seems to have 

 been: 



'Act well Tour part, there all the honour lies.' 



There were other Singletons in the same line of 



