Mr. Robert S. Walker 



following year, among other long races, she won the Northamp- 

 tonshire Stakes, and the Goodwood and Doncaster Cups. In 

 1 88 1, Mr. Walker bought Mother Shipton for ^500, and 

 won the Ebor Handicap with her a fortnight later, and several 

 other races after that ; whilst with Vallon by Onslow, whom 

 he bought as a yearling, he won the Prince of Wales' Nursery 

 Handicap at Doncaster, and several others later on, the last 

 being a selling race, when he let her go. 



Mr. Walker's brother George was equally successful both 

 as an owner and a rider, winning many steeplechases, 

 some of them of great importance. With Pensioner he won 

 the big Handicap Steeplechases at Bedford in 1866, worth 

 ^585, and the Lincoln Autumn Steeplechase on the same 

 horse ; whilst on Patience, Pigeon, and Defence (which last 

 was acquired by Mr. Richardson on behalf of Captain Machell), 

 not forgetting Catspaw, which horse he sold to go to France, 

 and went over to ride and win on him there, were all good 

 winners for him in their turn. 



Mr. George Walker died some years since, but the subject 

 of our memoir, now upwards of eighty years of age, is, we 

 are happy to say, still with us, hale and hearty, and resides 

 at Aylesby Manor, Laceby, where the Brocklesby hounds 

 were kept when Messrs. Pelham and Tyrwhitt Drake had 

 them in 1713, a descendant of the last named, Mr. W. Drake, 

 still owning the property. 



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