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Updated: May 28, 2025
And to Sir Denzil's latest descendant the first sight of the training-stable as the pony-carriage came to a standstill alongside the grass plot in the centre of the great, graveled square offered very definite and stirring poetry of a kind. On three sides the quadrangle was shut in by one-storied, brick buildings, the woodwork of doors and windows immaculate with white paint.
"The fact was, of course, appreciated at King's Pyland, where the Colonel's training-stable is situated. Every precaution was taken to guard the favorite. The trainer, John Straker, is a retired jockey who rode in Colonel Ross's colors before he became too heavy for the weighing-chair.
"There is another training-stable quite close, I understand?" "Yes, and that is a factor which we must certainly not neglect. As Desborough, their horse, was second in the betting, they had an interest in the disappearance of the favorite. Silas Brown, the trainer, is known to have had large bets upon the event, and he was no friend to poor Straker.
Great as were the sums which were lost at commerce, hazard, or faro, they were less than the training-stable, the betting-ring, and the stock-jobber now consume; and the same influences which have destroyed the Whig oligarchy and the King's friends have changed and enlarged the manner and the habit of gambling in England. Of Selwyn the humourist it would be easy to collect pages of witticisms.
They have even offered the bribe of a race in which only French jockeys are permitted to ride, but these, with only an exception here and there, have very promptly given up the business, disgusted either by the severe regimen required in the matter of diet or by the rigorous discipline indispensable in a training-stable.
Livingstone had bought her out of a training-stable, and had given her to his cousin, after having broken her into a perfect light-weight hunter. One of the few extravagances in which Mr. Raymond indulged his daughter was allowing her to take Bella Donna wherever she went. "Don't excite yourself, you small Amazon!" replied Guy to her indignant refusal. "How you do believe in that mare!
Years afterwards an attempt was made by Colonel Anson to bring about a reconciliation; but Lord George said he would not have anything to do with "the fellow." A great stroke was made in 1836 when Lord George won the St. Leger with Elis, it was the first time a horse was conveyed in a van from his training-stable to a race-course.
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