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purchased in 1868, when the Cleveland Show was at Yarm. 

 He won many prizes and beat 47 entrants in the four-year-old 

 class at the Yorkshire Show, and later came off with flying 

 colours at the same fixture at Hull. The end of " Joe 

 Bennett " was a mystery, he being found dead in the paddock 

 at Marton. Bob Brunton often expressed the opinion to me 

 that he had been poisoned and he had a feeling that there had 

 been foul play. *' Tally-ho Bob " — and he could halloa when 

 the dew of vintage had fallen upon him — was one of the old 

 style of sportsmen and a great character. He died on Sept. 

 17th, 1907.] 



The Fowler Family. 

 The name of the late Mr. Harry Fowler has been 

 mentioned, and it may here be recorded that it was at one of 

 the Stockton race dinners that John Jackson got up and said : 

 ** We ought to have a Stake in connection with the Stockton 

 Races to keep the memory green for ever of that excellent 

 sportsman, and our good friend, Harry Fowler." The result 

 of this was the Harry Fowler Plate, which is still in existence. 

 Mr. Parrington christened the Great Northern St. Leger at the 

 same meeting, and is the only one now left of the old Stockton 

 Race Committee. 



Mr. Marshall Fowler, now of Otterington House, North- 

 allerton, was at one time a familiar figure with the Hurworth. 

 He was born at Preston Hall, just on the Durham side of the 

 River Tees, and began hunting when very young with the 

 Durham County Hounds, with the Hurworth, and with Col. 

 Hildyard's Harriers. So long ago is it since this veteran began 

 to ride with hounds that he cannot speak with certainty as to 

 the exact date, but he knows he was hunting in 1843 and has a 

 diary with frequent entries of " went out hunting," dated 1845. 



