Returning to Newmarket in 1880, he settled first at Middleton Cottage and then at Meynell House for the rest of his life. Several continental owners sent horses to be trained by him, among them Prince Tasziló Festetics, for whom he won the Grosser Preis von Baden, the Deutsches Derby, and other important races. From 1885 to 1890 he took charge of Jack Hammond's horses, including St. Gatien, who in 1884 dead-heated with Harvester in the Derby, and won the Cesarewitch Handicap, carrying 8st 10lb; and Florence, winner of the Cambridgeshire Handicap in 1884. For Jack Hammond, Waugh won the Ascot Cup in 1885 with St. Gatien, the Ascot Stakes with Eurasian in 1887, and the Cambridgeshire with Laureate in 1889.