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makers were " held up " where they stood ready to com- 

 mence operations on the first race, watches and money were 

 stolen on all sides, and for some ten minutes the utmost 

 lawlessness prevailed. Nor was it possible to secure an 

 additional supply of police at a moment's notice, for Scar- 

 borough Racecourse is three miles from the town, and at the 

 top of a very steep hill. A similar scene was once enacted 

 at Shrewsbury, but I was not present, whereas I watched the 

 Scarborough raid from a carriage on the far side of the 

 course. On this particular occasion a very popular local 

 magnate, whom the roughs would not touch, carried away 

 some ^7,000, pressed upon him for safe custody by book- 

 makers and others. 



I have stated elsewhere that there are more thorough- 

 breds bred in Yorkshire than in any other county, and on 

 the face of that fact there ought to be more racing in the 

 county than there is. But of late years there has been such 

 a rush to Newmarket that a majority of the Yorkshire 

 breeders, who put into training the youngsters they breed, 

 send them out of the district. Many Yorkshire landowners 

 there are who race, but at the moment I can mention only 

 Lord Harewood and Mr. Vyner as those who train their 

 horses in Yorkshire. The first-named nobleman, who also 

 trains with George Chaloner at Newmarket, always has a 

 few nags with Charles Lund at Malton ; and Mr. Vyner 

 trains privately near Ripon, and he is perhaps the best 

 supporter of Yorkshire racing of the present day. Lord 

 Durham, Lord Londonderry, and (until very lately) Lord 

 Zetland bred horses in the North and had them trained at 

 Newmarket; and though a contrary state of affairs pre- 

 vailed in John Scott's time, it is now a fact that all the 

 largest Northern owners neglect the Yorkshire training 

 grounds in favour of Newmarket. 



This, in a great measure, accounts for the disappearance 

 of such meetings as Richmond and Northallerton, and it 

 also causes the sport at Beverley, Thirsk, and Ripon to 

 be very moderate as far as class is concerned, since 

 nowadays horses of the first class are so rarely trained 

 in Yorkshire. The stables at Malton probably contain as 



