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same year on similar lines he had had a more 

 comfortable ride on Lincoln and beat Tom 

 French on the favourite Douglas a couple of 

 lengths. 



Most people find what may be termed a melan- 

 choly satisfaction in recalling the pleasures of the 

 past. There is still a fair number of military 

 men who at some time or other were quartered 

 at Aldershot ; those of them who aspired to win 

 steeplechases of sorts found their way sooner or 

 later to Bishop Sutton. As a school for military 

 riders and chasers, Mr Arthur Yates' establishment 

 had no equal. Not only was he guide, philosopher 

 and friend, but a man of such personality that he 

 did not fail to influence those of whom he saw 

 much. He discountenanced betting ; a coup engin- 

 eered by the Bishop Sutton stable was a thing- 

 unheard of. Sport was the keynote applied to 

 the entire business. 



It was in the early eighties, when my regiment 

 was quartered at Aldershot, that I made a most 

 useful and pleasureable acquaintance with Arthur 

 Yates, who first saw daylight in the year 1S41. 

 He is still hale and hearty, and if retired from 

 the sport he so long and honourably followed, 

 yet keeps up his favourite hobby — viz. collecting 

 and studying birds and beasts of every description. 

 When I was last at Bishop Sutton I discovered 



