TRAINERS OF DERB\ AND OTHER HORSES. 105 



all interested in horse-racing know. In all probability, 

 the majority of trainers are most faithful to their em- 

 ployers ; it is in their interests that they are reputed 

 to do those things which they ought not to do. It is 

 the public who suffer when a horse is ' stopped.' It 

 may be left to others to argue or illustrate how far it 

 is an offence, and of what magnitude, for a trainer to 

 aid his employer in deceiving the public. That the 

 public have often been deceived by various ' stables ' 

 on various occasions may be taken for granted. 



Harking back to the old times and the old stories 

 of training vicissitudes, ninnerous incidents and anec- 

 dotes might easily be collected bearing on the subject, 

 biographical sketches having been published of some 

 of the more notable of them. ' Black Jack' (Mr. John 

 Lowther) would form a good subject for a sketch, 

 but limited space forbids. The old school were firm 

 believers in discipline, and brought up their lads in 

 wholesome fear of the rod. The riders who were 

 trained in the Yorkshire stables about the end of the 

 last century were well acquainted with the biting 

 qualities of the supple ash plant. 



Mr. John Sct)it, of White-wall, may be cited as a 

 trainer who began on the traditions of his art, and 

 lived long enough to witness many of what were called 

 'new-fangled' practices. Born about the close of the 

 last century, John Scott had attained the good old 

 age of seventy-seven years at the time of his death, on 

 October 4th, 1«71. For a full half-century of his life- 

 time he figured as 'a feature' of turf-life. His father 

 had also been in his day a trainer, and lived to the 

 grand old age of a century mhius three years. The 



