Mr. Arthur Yates 



hunters' handicap for him the next day, in which Solicitor 

 and others were engaged, an invitation which was promptly 

 accepted, the amateur handicapper giving Solicitor 14 st. to 

 keep the weights down, whilst to Fairyland, a mare trained by 

 Tom Spence, who was little inferior to Solicitor, was allotted 

 1 1 St. 9 lbs. When the handicaps appeared in the morning, it 

 was so little altered that its framer, the moment he saw it, 

 backed the mare for ;!f 200. Alas ! the good thing came 

 undone, though how was inexplicable, seeing that, on her sub- 

 sequent running, she must have had at least two stone in hand. 

 As a result, Mr. Reginald Herbert won with Chassepot, which 

 had about 4 st. taken off in the handicap as framed by Mr. 

 Dalglish. 



In 1885 the subject of our memoir married Miss Amy 

 Johnson, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Johnson, after 

 which he settled down at Wellesbourne, near Warwick, where 

 he still resides. 



Mr. ARTHUR YATES 



From amongst the group of really brilliant gentlemen riders 

 who flourished during the seventies of the last century, it 

 would have been difficult indeed to have picked out one with 

 a better winning average or possessed of a larger share in 

 public estimation than Mr. Arthur Yates. 



Familiar though the dark blue jacket and cap might be at all 

 the more important cross-country meetings, including Liverpool, 

 if you wanted to see Arthur Yates thoroughly in his glory — 

 like Alexander Selkirk of immortal memory, " Monarch of all 



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