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Trainer (T),  Jockey (J)

Associated Places:  Bedford Lodge, Newmarket; Machell Place, Newmarket

Description:

James Jewitt belongs to a small select band of trainers who have sent out the winners of the both the Derby and a Grand National. In addition, Jewitt just failed to win at Aintree as a jockey, being runner up on Regal in 1881. Seaman, whom he trained to win the following season, he turned from a wild, severely bitted horse into one as quiet as a lamb and suitable for his amateur owner-rider, Lord Manners, to ride in the most taxing steeplechase of the year.

Jewitt, a good-looking and well-dressed gentleman, always tuned out his charges looking equally well, and was a fine judge of a horse. He was as quick tempered as his racing manager and partner Captain James Machell, but the pair won many of the top races in the last 20 years of the 19th century.