The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-20 00:00:00

A VISIT TO MAGTON WOLDS.

(Front the Racing Times.)
Situate two hundred and twelve miles from the great
metropolis aro the far-famed Malton Wolds, the scenery
and views from which on a fine day beggar description,
presenting a panorama of woodland and diversified land-
scape of immense extent, including noblemen's mansions
scattered about, with a charming proportion of rural
country seldom equalled, but certainly never excelled.
unfortunately there were two drawbacks to contend with,
which opposed themselves to the charm of our visit to this
celebrated spot last week. The first was, that when wo
reached there on Thursday morning, having received a
courteous invitation the previous evening from Mr. John
Scott, the well-known trainer of Whitewall House, to in-
spect his horses -whilst at exercise, the weather turned out
gloomy and threatening, thus preventing us from obtaining
more than a limited view of this lovely scene ; and, more-
over, the rain, which both the appearance
of the
glass and
the gloomy state of the atmosphere prognosticated, came
down in heavy showers afintervals during the morning.
The other grievance, which may as well begot rid of at once
to make our description pleasanter afterwards, was to find
that a great share of these celebrated training grounds were
now only a relic of the past. On ascending the hill, which
was and is the main road to the wolds, and to which so
many pilgrims to this favoured spot we fear will some day
return in vain, it is to be recorded that owing to an un-
riaeaetirsdeaiPl of the which perhaps the less
ground, in fact all on
of the road, has been enclosed. The
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Grand Stand of Malton racecourse is turned into a farm-
house, the ground of the course ploughed up, and those
familiar spots, where so many of our turf celebrities under-
went their preparations for our greatest sporting prizes,
live only in our memory. In fact we are sadly afraid it is
hut a question of a few years before the final catastrophe
may come, and the same mercenary feelings remove all
that is now loft for the trainers' use.
Appended is a list of Dlr. Scott's horses in training,
brood mares, yearlings, foals, &c. The animals in training
were all doing more or less work on the welds, with the
exception of War, Westwiek, Claros, and Rondinella ; the
first-named was fulfilling an engagement at Wolver-
hampton, and the other three at Stockton Meeting. There
is little doubt from the improved form Mr. Bowes's horse
displayed with Honesty and Strathconan, both backed for
a lot of money in his race at Stockton, he will be favour-
ably heard of in connection with the St. Leger. It must
not be forgotten that this celebrated trainer has a lot of
six engaged, one or other of which is very likely to give a
satisfactory account of himself on the day. Knight of the
Crescent and Knight of St. Michael look and go well, and
are in splendid condition. The latter, however, will never
successfully compass a distance of ground. The colt by
Stockwell out of Midsummer is also undergoing a prepa-
ration for the Doncaster event. This horse, it will bo re-
collected, was backed heavily for the Derby, but as he
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