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Western Australia) and Cato. He built new stables, and trained such celebrities as Annesley, Blue Mountain, Collingwood, Corythus, Dreamland, Euchre, Insolvent, Irralee, Ringwood, Ruby, St. Louis, Titan, and many others, winning four Grand Nationals, Australian Cup, Caulfield Guineas, Hobart Cup, the Maribyrnong Plate, Ballarat Cup three times, and many other races ; while Titan, who had been written off by others as a failure, won him the Toorak Handicap, Railway Stakes, All-aged Stakes, and Farewell Handicap at Flemington, and the Cumberland Stakes in Sydney. Scobie considered Ringwood the best horse he ever rode or trained, despite the successes he had with Blue Mountain, Bolton, Kanaka, Lothair, Ruby, and Zephyr.
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149:. In 1880 he joined Robert "Ballarat Bob" Howie (c. 1842â1910), for whom he won the Australian Cup Hurdle Race on Zephyr, the Maiden Steeplechase, the Melbourne Cup Hurdle on Lothair, Melbourne Cup Steeple on Kanaka, and other big races on Battle Abbey and Collingwood, besides scoring all over the country on Wait-a-While, Battle Abbey, and a host of others.
125:, a son of stonemason William Scobie and his wife Marion Scobie, nÊe McVicar. He was educated at Ararat, and at the age of 12 began working with horses. After a few months working for a surveyor, he fell in with Ralph Parkinson, just out of Ararat, working a chestnut gelding Alma (previously named Postboy) that won a lot of races for his owner.
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Notable horses that passed through his hands include: Alawa, Angelia, Annesley, Annotate, Benbow, Blue
Mountain, Bolan, Brookong, Celia, Charles Stuart, Chit-Chat, Cyden, Cyklon, Demas, Deneb, Dreamland, Eleanor, Emir, Epilogue, Eye Glass, F.J.A., Fossil, Glue, Green Cap, Hautvilliers, Hua, Jack
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His brother George Scobie, sen., ( â ) was a cross-country rider and trainer and father of George Scobie, a jockey who notably won the 1909 Grand
National Hurdle Race on Fossil, and later also a trainer, and W. Scobie, who had some success as a jockey in New Zealand.
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Melbourne Cups. His most important success in later years was the Australia Day Cup at Williamstown with Lusson, who was trained by him for longtime patron
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Marguerite Frances "Pearl" Doyle (1891â1945) before 1915. They divorced; he married again, to Gladys Germaine Smith ( â ) in November 1930. He was a trainer in Melbourne and in 1930 for Sir Charles Hyde in
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