A VETERAN TRAINER

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 8

A VETERAN TRAINER

DOBSON PEACOCK'S DEATH

Mr. Matthew -Dobson Peacock, the famous Yorkshire trainer, died at his home, Manor House, Middleham, last I m?" t, h- He was ?9 years of age. i Dobson Peacock,' as he was generally i Know", was born", at Harmby, nea*i Middleham, on February 29, 1856 Although he had been ill for more than a year heistill took an : active interest in the training of his Worses. It was his custom, whenever possible, to watch 1, , I^r-i"Sr\ hls motor-car at their work on Middleham Moor. When he took up training, h e succeeded the late Harry Hall at Middleham, He combined farming with training, and was a noted breeder of; sheep. The leading tramerin the North of England he always ; had an exceptionally large string of horses under his care. Lofd Ellesmere and; Lord-Hamilton of- Dalz eH\rere aniong his patrons. Three years-- ago Peacock achieved the great ambition of his life by training one hundred,dinners'- in one seaifaS" * ff? at .Manchester on the last day of the season that .he accomplished this feat, .when Herdnslea, the ?K am& 10n s Printer of the year, won the Ellesmere Handicap. Had Peacock won the Derby there: could not have been more enthusiasm than was disPla yed,on occasion. Such Peering had not been heard on a racecourse for years. ■ Tovmark the occasion he was presentedl with a Georgian : silver mug. Peacock realised another amb' tion—to win a.race at Ascot—when, he won theWokjngham Stakes witn Heronslea in 1931. One of his disappointments was that he never trained the winner of a classic race. l, it*??"l^ the winners of practically i all the Big handicaps in the north, bi* times he won. the Northumberland ! Plate, the "Pitmen's Derby"; three times the Manchester November Handi leap; and once the Chester Cup and the uieat Yorkshire Handicap. ' His invasions of the big meetings in the south were frequent in late.years and were very successful. One of the highlights of Ins career was when he won the Cambridgeshire in 1932 with Pullover a big outsider. , Up to his death this season he had won more races than any other trainer.