Epsom Oaks
As an amateur jockey he won the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris on "Parasang" in 1888. After a fall at Sandown Park Racecourse in 1892 he decided to take up training and in 1893 he was appointed trainer to the 16th Earl of Derby at Bedford Lodge stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. He trained "Canterbury Pilgrim" to win the 1896 Epsom Oaks for Lord Derby and the 1906 Epsom Oaks with "Keystone II".