Excerpt from The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 22: January to June 1906Spencer ever owned, and he declares he loved the little creature more than most bipeds he has met since. Fortunately a photograph of Chummy is preserved and here given. The horse was full of intelli gence, and when put in training soon learnt all that was to be known about racing. If a handkerchief were held up to do duty in elementary fashion for a starter's ¿ag Chummy would watch it intently, and was off like a rocket the instant it began to fall. Mr. Gollan has owned innumerable horses since, but his first favourite has never lost his place in his friend's affections.The races on Chummy were unimportant amateur perform ances, and the first real race Mr. Spencer Gollan rode was on Liberty, a mile and a quarter on the ¿at, at \vaipukuran. The horse, it should be explained, was the property of and nominated by a young lady. Just outside the distance Liberty seemed to be holding his own, so much so that the most dangerous of his rivals, an accomplished horseman, and who oddly enough chanced to be riding Denbigh, the dam of Moifaa, called out to ask Spencer how he was going, and, as a matter of fact, he was doing so well that, notwithstanding his rival's Skill and experience, Spencer got the lady's representative home by a very short head, much to the annoyance of the beaten jockey. I suppose you'll get it, he said, rather discontentedly, for I see that not only is her father in the box, but as far as I can make out most of the family as well! Spencer, however, got the race not by reason of family in¿uence, but because he passed the post first, and on Liberty he won his next two races.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.