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several times steered to victory at Brocklesby and Market 

 Kasen by Mr. Harry Brooks. He also trained and rode 

 several horses for Lord Yarborough, beginning in 1882 

 witb Sensation, which he won with the first time of asking. 

 Lord Bacon, who won the Cup for Mr. Brooks, was first 

 owned by Lord Yarborough, and was given to Mr. Brooks 

 after he had won several races on him. His old jockey 

 and new owner steered him twice to victory at Brocklesby ; 

 and won two more races on him at Market Rasen the 

 following week. He was once thought to be a tip- topper, 

 but was a difficult horse to train. He was afterwards sold 

 to Tom Spence for Mr. " Abington " Baird, but did not 

 do his new owner much good. 



Mr. Brooks also won several races for Mr. J. M. 

 Richardson, and Mr. W. Wood, of Habrough. On a horse 

 of Mr. C. Archer's (Newmarket) he should have been 

 second to Why Not in the Grand National Hunt Steeple- 

 chase at Malton, but unfortunately fell at the last fence. 

 Mr. Brooks's last race was at Brocklesby in 1893, when he 

 had a very bad fall on Fleetfoot. 



Mr. Neil MacVicar, of Limber Hill, rode under the 

 name of "Mr. Rolwyn," and between 1874 and 1886 had 

 two hundred and ten mounts, winning forty-eight times 

 and being second on forty-five occasions. He won a 

 number of races on his own mare Evergreen, a wonderful 

 hunter, and also donned the colours of Lord Yarborough, 

 Lord Downe, Mr. (now Lord) Heneage, and Messrs. J. 

 M. Richardson, J. Clark, S. H. Allenby, Lynton (Rush), 

 Melbourn, etc. Lady Yarborough's Cup twice fell to his 

 prowess. In 1877 Mr. MacVicar won three races out of 

 five at the Sandbeck Hunt meeting, and in 1886 won 

 three out of four races at Brocklesl)y. 



In 1877 he was second on Lord Downe's Earl Marshal 

 (a horse he also steered unsuccessfully in Paris the same 

 year) in the Great Yorkshire Handicap, being beaten by 

 Lord Melgund (the present Earl of Minto, Governor- 

 General of Canada) on Mr. Flower's Daniel. One of the 

 best races Mr. MacVicar rode was on Mr. Perkins's 



