62 The Life of Fred Archer 
When Lord Eglinton's horses were sent to Fobert, Mathew 
returned to his father for a time and then set up for himself 
at Lambourne, where he trained horses for Mr. (afterwards 
Sir John) Don Wauchope and Lord John Scott. For the latter 
he won a fair number of races, but it was not until 1851 that he 
got a really good one in Lord John's Hobbie Noble, the son of 
Pantaloon and Phryne, who ran away with the New Stakes 
in the first Exhibition year and also the July in the same 
season. Mathew Dawson was very fond of Lord John, and 
was never tired of teUing anecdotes about him and about Mr. 
Wauchope, for whom in 1853 Mathew won his first classic, 
the Oaks, with Catherine Hayes by Lanercost. Dawson also 
trained The Riever and Morgan La Faye. In 1856, Cannobie 
ran third for the Derby, which was won by Ellington, trained 
by Thomas Dawson, Yellow Jack being second. 
When Lord John Scott sold off his racing-stock, Mr. James 
Merry, the ironmaster, commissioned Mr. Dawson to buy the 
whole of Lord John's beautiful mares, which included Phryne, 
Catherine Hayes, and Lady Lurewell. 
At Heath House, a port-wine-coloured mansion, facing 
The Severals and backing on to Bury Hill, the famous trainer 
reigned for nearly twenty years, until he handed over the 
establishment to his nephew, George Dawson, and moved into 
the Manor House at Exning. 
Once the late Mr. Tattersall was ill and he went down to 
Newmarket. He ought not to have gone at all, but he wanted 
to go, and so he would not ask his doctor's advice. Therefore it 
was not the fault of Newmarket that he was ill, but he recovered, 
and lived for about two years afterwards. While he was there, 
Mrs. Tattersall called to see Mathew Dawson, who remarked 
that Newmarket was not a place fit for any human being to live 
in for six months of the year. Yet he had managed to live 
and prosper there for half a lifetime. 
Mathew Dawson also trained for the then Dukes of Hamil- 
ton and Newcastle, the latter of whom owned Julius, Pace. 
