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regular followers of Lord Yarborough's hounds for over 

 fifty years, and Mr. Robert, though seventy-four years 

 of age, is still seen out with hounds once or twice a week. 

 He says the best horses he rode were Cartalvin, Snow- 

 storm, Yorkshireman, Tom-tom, Keystone, Heirloom, and 

 Bridegroom. 



Among the horses trained and ridden by Mr. George 

 Walker were Patience, a brown mare that won a handicap 

 hurdle race of £60 at Lincoln in November, 1865, a plate 

 of £40 at the Holderness Hunt meeting at Beverley in 

 June, 1865, and the Don Steeplechase, value c£95, at the 

 Doncaster meeting in March, 1865. She had previously 

 won the Farmers' Cup at Beverley in June, 1864. The 

 brown gelding Philip won the Sandbeck Hunt Steeple- 

 chase at Retford in 1869, and the Brocklesby Sweepstakes 

 of £125, four miles, on the same day as the great finish 

 between Snowstorm and Barbarian. The brown gelding 

 Defence was started seven times, and won on each occasion, 

 the Warwick and Leamington Hunt Cup on November 

 28th, 1871, being among the number; and Waterfall, a 

 black gelding, placed the following races to his credit : 

 The Gone Away Plate of £50 at Lincoln in 1872, the 

 Hunters' Handicap of £50 at Pontefract, the Hunters' 

 Handicap of £60 at Stamford, the Belvoir Plate of £50 

 at Leicester, and the Hunters' Stakes at Redbourne Park, 

 all in the same year. Pensioner, a chestnut gelding, won 

 a £75 Steeplechase at Retford in 1866, the Grand Handicap 

 of £585 value at Bedford, four miles, in a field of 

 thirteen starters, in 1867, and the Lincoln Autumn Steeple- 

 chase of £112, three miles, in 1868. 



It might be mentioned that about the middle of the 

 last century the Brocklesby Steeplechases were called the 

 North Wold Steeplechases, and were run over a course 

 four miles in extent, in difi'erent parts of the Brocklesby 

 country. In 1862 they were run between Limber and 

 Keelby, the late Sir John Astley giving a silver-mounted 

 whip to the winning jockey of each of the two races. 

 The first race was won by Mr. George Walker on Mr. 



