Colonel Peter Aubertin 



which do not exist now, and Captain Aubertin rode a good deal 

 for Mr. Young and Mr. R. Combe, winning some races on 

 Mermaid and Carlotta, whilst at Albrighton — a very festive 

 meeting — he won the Warren Steeplechase on Plough Lad, 

 beating Captain Holyoake by a short head. In 1876 he went 

 to Punchestown to ride Scots Grey, and was beat a short head 

 by Lord Maurice Beresford on Revenge. Captain Aubertin 

 rode Scots Grey again in the Wexford Handicap, this being 

 the last time that good horse ever ran. Later on he won the 

 cup at the Kallultagh meeting on Vanity, getting a bad fall on 

 Simon in the next race. 



At Birmingham he rode Titterstone, and won a couple of 

 races on Sidbury and Simon respectively. In 1880 increasing 

 weight told its inevitable tale, and Colonel Aubertin, making 

 up his mind — reluctantly, you may be sure — to give up race- 

 riding, brought a highly successful career to a close at the 

 Baldoyle meeting with a gallant victory on Irish Paddy. 



On relinquishing riding, Colonel Aubertin settled at the 

 Weir House, Alresford, Hants, in close proximity to his old 

 friend Arthur Yates. That the element of danger being 

 present in any of our field sports is rather an attraction than 

 otherwise to the average Briton, there can be little doubt ; at 

 the same time, the bravest among us is apt to draw the line 

 at barbed wire ; and to its unwelcome presence in nearly every 

 field from one end of Hampshire to the other is due the 

 fact that the subject of our memoir prefers to rely on rod and 

 gun for amusement rather than the hunting-field, of which 

 formerly he was so staunch an admirer. 



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