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Barton and Mr T. Hone, the property of Captain 

 Childs, and Dalesman, belonging to Captain Fisher, 

 owner up to 1885-86-87, and lastly Mr H.L. Powell's 

 The Midshipmite, with Major Burn Murdoch in the 

 saddle. All these were won at Sandown, with the 

 exception of Scorn, his race being run at Aylesbury, 

 when Mr Barton defeated Roddy Owen by a head 

 in the smallest field — namely, three runners — on 

 record for the race. 



So numerous are the officers and others who 

 benefited by Arthur Yates' tuition and counsel in 

 the sport that to give the names of all would fill a 

 book ; but those I well remember include Captain 

 Childs, Colonel F'isher, General Broadwood, Lord 

 Binning, Mr Hanbury, Colonel Reggie Howe and 

 Major Hughes Onslow. Of all the horses that 

 passed through Arthur Yates' hands, he says 

 Defence was certainly the best horse he ever 

 rode. Harvester the best he ever owned, and 

 Cloister the best he ever trained. But there 

 were two chasers whose names will always re- 

 main green in the memory of Bishop Sutton : 

 the one bears the name, as Mr Yates is always 

 pleased to call him, of Dear old Crawler, and lies 

 buried on the lawn alongside Harvester ; the other 

 was Harold, the horse that after a fall at the 

 water at Croydon was caught and remounted by 

 the aid of his tail, thereby not only bringing Mr 



