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Cambridgeshire, the latter in Lodeford Hundred, Suffolk, the 
High Street dividing the two. 
The Dawson family, of course, came to Newmarket from 
Scotland. Mathew was the third son of George Dawson, who 
was in his day the principal trainer in Scotland, and, besides 
many horses, he, like the patriarchs of old, trained successfully 
at Gullane seventeen sons and daughters, all born, save the 
eldest, in a charmingly situated old house there, 
" Gullane," says The Druid (in Scott and Sebright, p. 179 
et seq. ) ' 'was once the Malt on of Scotland, and half a dozen horses 
busy at their o> shaped work in the ' myres ' served in 1861 to 
keep up a faint association with Lanercost, Inheritor, and 
Despot, those knights of the straw body and green sleeves 
who were once the presiding genii of the spot. 
" The house where all the Dawsons were born and bred 
nestles at the foot of the hill on which stands the rude wooden 
lighthouse, keeping watch and ward over the German Ocean, 
and we could hardly wonder that I' Anson always kept his 
* Caller Ou ' impressions as the breezes fresh frae the Forth 
swept over us that July. On one side the yellow harvest 
fields of East Lothian were waving and Dirle ton's Woods grew 
green and fair down to the very edge of the beach. Following 
the gently-curving lines of creamy spray to the right, the eye 
rests on the Bass Rock, ever clangorous with sea-fowl and 
standing out blunt and bare from its wave-washed base, and 
the cone-like eminence of Berwick Law ; while the distant 
range of the Fife Hills takes us back to Johnny Walker and 
his ' dearies ' before his View Halloo was heard at Wynnstay." 
At the then headquarters of Scottish sportsmen Mr. Dawson 
trained for others beside his original employer. This was 
in the days when Mr. Ramsay was famous across the border, 
" Mr. Ramsay hunted the Camwath country as well as 
the three Lothians, and he did not scruple to give 1,500 
guineas for Lanercost, 1,000 for The Doctor, and 850 for 
Inheritor." Then there were his coaches. " Like Ambo 
