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was put up for sale after the races at Sandown Park, and 

 knocked down to Mr. Arthur Cooper, in whose colours, and 

 ridden by Mr. E. P. Wilson, he won this coveted event with 

 the utmost ease the following year. 



It was in 1877, soon after joining the loth Hussars, when in 

 India with the regiment, that we first hear of Mr. Fisher (as he 

 was then) sporting silk on a race course. During his stay there, 

 he won many races and steeplechases on his own and other 

 people's horses, both on the flat and over a country, the most 

 important, perhaps, being the Kadir Cup ; Lord William 

 Beresford, Frank Johnson, B. Short, and sundry other amateur 

 horsemen of repute being behind him. On returning with the 

 regiment to England, he shared some horses with the late Mr. 

 Hanbury, whose fatal accident at Lewes when riding one of 

 the animals in question, will doubtless be in the remembrance 

 of many of our readers ; and with a view to perfecting him- 

 self in race-riding, spent most of his time, when on leave, 

 with Mr. Arthur Yates at Bishops Sutton, where his partner 

 had already been located for some time. 



In 1887 Captain Fisher had the satisfaction of winning the 

 Gold Cup at the Grand Military Meeting held at Sandown 

 Park, on Dalesman (6 yrs., 1 1 st), belonging to himself, beating 

 eight others ; and this horse he sold shortly after to Ernest 

 Benzon (popularly known as "The Jubilee Juggins"), to whom 

 he proved a rare bargain, his late owner winning, besides 

 several steeplechases, the principal hurdle races at Liverpool, 

 Croydon, and Sandown on him. In addition. Captain Fisher 

 won the Irish Grand Military on Downey, a mare bred by Lord 

 Downe, some of whose progeny, such as Coolmorn, have since 

 proved useful on the flat. In 1889 Captain Fisher, at the 

 instance of Mr. C. J. Cunningham, travelled specially to Don- 

 caster to ride in Why Not's four and a half mile trial for the 



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