"I am, of course, a Scotsman by birth, and though I came to Yorkshire so young as to be almost a Tyke, I have always had a great love for Gullane . . . and those things which are essentially Scotch."

"He's coming, he's coming!" -- the crowd's heels are drumming, 
And voices cease humming, and hearts gladly soar; 
In raputous cheering its good to be hearing 
That swells from their throats in a great Yorkshire roar. 

I'Anson the portly, the kind and the courtly, 
Who ne'er judged men harshly nor did one a wrong; 
A stout-without-doubt man, an out-and-about man, 
As tender in heart as in hand he is strong. 

Just think of the horses on Britain's best courses 
That William I'Anson has shaped from the raw -- 
Of Beauclerc and Rathlea (no broken-kneed rath he!) 
Of Breadalbane, Breadknife, and swift Broomilelaw! 

So many points giving to any man living 
In training a horse in the way it should go; 
What trainer could match him or possibly catch him 
In flat-racing winners that Turf-records show? 

How well he had reared them (till rivals all feared him) 
Jim Snowden, Jim Fagan, Bob Colling could tell; 
How great was their pride in the fierce joy of riding 
The mounts their loved master made sound as a bell! 

Still laughing and joking, his pet cigar smoking, 
His mind's eye looks back on the fame-crowded years; 
Life-pensions reserving for servants deserving, 
He's "seen them all right" and calmed poverty's fears. 

But what is bred in the bone comes out in the flesh, and the love of horses, of training them, and the fascination of the Turf were all inherent and potent within him.

• In 1869 he left the potential of a mercantile career with Sir James, who bought him three horses, and with these William commenced his life as a trainer. 
• He lived at first in a cottage that was part of his father's property at Highfield. His hearth apparently attracted some of the greatest men of the Turf who came to talk to "Young William" after transacting business at his father's place. 
• Soon, however, he moved his string to Hambleton, near Thirsk, where he trained with his older brother, Tom, to assist him. His first important patron was Mr Henry (later Viscount) Chaplin.

William I'Anson Jr. is still the Leading Trainer (7 wins):  Pursebearer (1881), Castor (1885), Lady Muncaster (1886), Derwentwater (1887), Lockhart (1889), Royal Stag (1890), Barbette (1903)
 

• However, in less than two years, in 1873, Tom died suddenly, and before the end of 1874 William and his increasing string returned to Highfield.
• On the death of his father in 1881, William inherited the Highfield Estate, and in 1892 began the building of a new house there in "the Italian style". 

The article ended by saying: 

 Well! that is about enough for today respecting Messrs. I'Anson. All that remains is to thank them heartily for their kindness, patience, and hospitality, and wish that people of such a "good sort" were very plentiful.