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beside Tom Dawson's front door at Middleham. He stands on 
a rockery with stones and plants from Middleham, so, Mr. 
Dawson says, his foot is, so to speak, on his native heath. 
George Dawson's early death left John in his brother's 
charge, and the two worked together for nine years. 
Thomas Dawson became a power in the land in the days when 
the North-country stables well held their own with the stables 
south of the Trent, and when the rivalry between the two 
sections of the racing world. North and South, was at its 
height. He died in 1880, within a few months of his brother 
Joseph. 
It was Joseph Dawson who, first of the Dawson family, 
took the road south to Newmarket, whither he was eventually 
followed by his brothers Mathew and John. Joseph first 
established himself at Ilsley, in Berkshire, whence he moved to 
Newmarket, having made up his mind that the town possessed 
advantages which could not be found elsewhere. He began, 
with Mr. Pryor as his chief patron, in hired stables close to 
Heath House, and then resolved to start an establishment of 
his own, which he did at Heath House itself ; but he moved 
into Bedford Lodge as soon as a new range of stabling was 
completed. It is said that under the roof of Bedford Lodge 
the question was once asked : " Who was Joseph Dawson ? " 
Mathew Dawson had named James Waugh as his successor 
as private trainer to Mr. Merry, and moved into a " cosy place " 
opposite to St. Mary's Rectory, Newmarket, whence he moved 
into Heath House as soon as Joseph vacated it. From this 
time the brothers were never again separated, and John soon 
afterwards joined them in the racing metropolis, where in 
1861 he took up his quarters at Warren House, as private 
trainer to Prince Batthyany, a connection which lasted for 
twenty-two years and came to a tragic ending on the afternoon 
that Archer won the Two Thousand Guineas on Galliard. 
Scarcely had Galliard, the son of Prince Batthyany's old 
favourite Galopin, passed the post, the winner of a very close 
