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NOTED MODERN ENGLISH TRAINER DIES W T Robinson Who Among Other Famous Horses Trained the Unlucky Craganour Passes On One of the most successful and widely known English trainers of the present time and an accom ¬ plished jockey in his earlier days paid the great debt Monday July 1 when W F Robinson died concerning the dead turfman London Sportsman said saidThough Though ho hail been unwell during the winter he had sufficiently recovered to be about as usual and his demise comes as a surprise Robinson made his mark both as a jockey and a trainer and at various times many good horses were under his care Though he had lately a comparatively small stable with F Curzon as his chief patron it was a well filled establishment at one period aiid he sent out the winners of many liriportant races racesRobinson Robinson was apprenticed to the late Tom Can ¬ non at Danebury that has turned out a ntnnlicr of famous jockeys of whom John Watts the brothers Morny and Kemmy Cannon and the brothers T and S Loates may be mentioned as bright ex ¬ amples while Robinson hiniself achieved many notable successes in the saddle He was seen to great advantage as a light weight and had his first mount in 18S3 though no race was placed to his credit that season nor did much luck coirie his way the following year He received considerable patronage in 1885 when he gained a dozen brackets and in 1885 had no fewer than 2SO mounts of which he got thirtynine first past the post He had a great season in 1887 when he steered Kilwarlin to victory in the St Leger in what was a somewhat sensational race his mount having been left at tin post He attracted much attention by his good horse ¬ manship on the Doneaster Town Moor and Lord Rodney the owner of Kilwarlin procured the can ¬ cellation of his indentures to Tom Cailnbii artd be ¬ came his first master For his new natron he won tlie Cesarcwitcii and a good stake on the threeyear old Iliumwood It was a lucky mount as Morning ton Cannon had been engaged to ride the colt but a cold kept him out of tlie saddle and Robinson took his place In 1888 he won the St Leger for the second time on Lord Calthorpes Seabreeze In addition to taking the Oaks on the same filly An ¬ other classic success was on Bonavista in the Two Thousand Guineas in 1892 wearing the colors of the late Mr Rose RoseAS AS A TRAINER TRAINERIn In tlie training profession lie proved conspicuous ¬ ly successful and made a name In connection with the Lincolnshire Handicap and the Brocklesby Stakes of which latter lie prepared the winner on several occasions and Robinson sent out the winners of the Lincolnshire Handicap three years in succes ¬ sion viz Cloraae in 1890 Winkfields Pride in 1S97 and Prince Barcaldiiie in 1S9S Clorane had ac ¬ counted for the Royal Hunt Cup in 1S95 and the fol ¬ lowing year Robinson won tlie Cambridgeshire with Winkfields Pride The last named was also suc ¬ cessful in the Prix du Conseil Municipal at Paris What a good thing that Cambridgeshire was for Winkfields Pride whicli took a large sum out of tlie ring was shown by his easily winning the Old Cambridgeshire a collide of days afterwards Prior to settling down at Foxhill the deceased had been private trainer to Lord Gerard aiid afterwards train ¬ ed for Mr Bassett at Winchester He also won good Rices for Mr Jersey Lady do Bathe with Mer man Malinna and Uniform One of Robinsons sup porters at Foxhill was Bower Ismay for whom lie trained Craganour and hoped to achieve with that colt the coveted distinction of winning the Derby The son of Desmond Veneration II had a highly siiccessfnl time as a twoyearold when he was un defeated and won among other races the Cham ¬ pagne Stakes at Doncaster and the Middle Park Plate Prior to running for tlie great Epsom race Craganour had easily won the Newmarket Stakes and to 4 was taken about his chance for the Derby The race proved to be one of the most sen ¬ sational on record Some of the jockeys did not dis ¬ tinguish themselves by their horsemanship and the result of a most unsatisfactory contest was that Craganour got home by a head from Aboyenr about whose chances 100 to 1 was obtainable at the start The stewards objected to Craganonr on the ground that he jostled the second horse and having heard the evidence of the judge and deputy judge they found that Craganour by not keeping a straight course had at one point of the race seriously in ¬ terfered with Sliogun Day Comet and Aboyeur and had afterwards bumped and bored Alwyeur so as to prevent his winniiig They disqualified Craganonr and awarded the race to Aboyeur Needless to say the result gave rise to no end of disappointment to the public and the owner of the horse and Mr Isriiay gave up racing for some time and sold Craganour who realized the substantial sum of 30000 pounds
