THE NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLECHASE 231 



With reference to the love of iniHtary amateurs 

 for the National Hunt Steeplechase, no even short 

 review of the history of that chase would be com- 

 plete without reference to the successful doings of 

 Captain Arthur, or " Dogie," Smith, as he is more 

 familiarly called by his many yet admiring friends. 

 Captain Smith for riding winners of the National 

 Hunt Steeplechase goes very near the great record 

 of the late Mr E. P. Wilson, who is credited with 

 five wins, all of which, curiously enough, were won 

 on four-year-olds, long since debarred from taking 

 place in the contest. Of Mr Wilson's five victories 

 four were successive : Pride of Prussia, Four Oaks 

 Park, 1 88 1 ; Llantarnam, Derby, 1882, in which 

 Frigate made her debut in England ; Satellite, 

 Melton, 1883; and Equity, Leicester, 1884; these 

 were preceded by The Bear, Cottenham, 1877. 

 But Captain Smith runs this great score very close 

 with four wins at much wider intervals : Game 

 Chicken, Melton, 1864; Daybreak, Burton, 1871 ; 

 Lucellum, Aylesbury, 1874; and New Glasgow, 

 Liverpool, 1880. In the last, however, only three 

 horses ran, the smallest field ever to take part in 

 the chase. In its movable days, curiously enough, 

 that was the only time the Hunt Committee paid 

 a visit to Aintree. It is further recorded of Captain 

 Smith that the New Glasgow win was not scored 

 without a fall. One of Mr Wilson's five also was not 



