Training Racehorses in Years Long Past

1929 - The American entrant for the Cesarewitch Mike Hall landing at King George V Dock from the Minnewaska on his way to Newmarket to be placed in the charge of Basil Jarvis.

1930 - Horses, including Grand National & Lincoln handicap entries are trained on the sands at Bognor Regis, owing to the hard state of the ground at their regular training quarters.

1930 – Another shot of racehorses being trained the sands at Bognor... interested members of the public watch as the horses make their along the beach.

1930 – Trainers preparing horses for the Grand National and the Lincoln Handicap found the sands ideal for avoiding the frozen training grounds of the long hard winter. Pictured here are Lordi, County Guy, and Obliteration appreciating a nice steady walk along the sands at Bognor Regis. 

1930 - A string of horses walking through Epsom including Harpagon one of the Derby entries.

1930 - This year's Derby Tip is seen written on the Amato Well Epsom, Venetian Star a rising young race-horse who has won three races this year, looking hopefully at one of the favourites name, whilst a fair one wishes.

 

1930 - Achtenan owned by Mr. T. Laut a fancied St. Leger candidate leading Frank Butters string at exercise on the roads at Newmarket.

1930 - Jim Thomas has registered his seventh successive victory winning the Hardwicke Plate at Stockton. He belongs to Mr. Stanley Wootton, the Epsom owner- trainer, who bought him for £294 and  Jim Thomas has now won £6,247 in prize money.  This pictures were taken at Epsom on his return from Stockton showing the colt being groomed on his return.

1935 – Newmarket An early morning scene at Newmarket, where some of the finest racehorses in England are trained. Here is Capt. C. Boyd-Rochfort's string passing through a small covert in the Heath during morning exercise.