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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1481, 12 September 1918, Page 9

The well-known English trainer, W. T. Robinson, died on July 1. He trained the winner of the Lincolnshire Handicap three years in succession, the successful horses being Clorane, Winkfield’s Pride and Prince Barcaldine. For some years he trained for Mrs. Langtry, and won races for her with the Australians, Merman and Maluma. Craganour was a notable horse that Robinson had in his charge.

The running off of Arlington at the

Marton meeting once more brings up the everlasting question of placing hurdles right across the course (remarks the “New Zealand Tinies”). There can be no valid reason at all why that should not be done; indeed, it is pure conservatism that prevents the idea being put into operation to-day. Take two of the prominent jumpers about these parts today, Arlington and Ormesby. They would just as soon run off at a fence as take it, and the next day they, or either of them, would sooner take the jump than shirk it. This running off business is far too common for the financial comfort of the average punter, and the sooner the possibilities of it are minimised to a degree unrecognisable without the aid of a pair of ten-cylinder prisms, the better for all.