Birthplace : Limber Magna 



sportsmen of his age was but the natural outcome of the love 

 of his early days. And there is no doubt that he gained his 

 wonderful capacity for never losing his head in a race, or any 

 other form of competitive exhibition, from the fact, that from 

 childhood he always sought out youths considerably his senior 

 in>ge, and well worthy of his steel. 



We all three emancipated ourselves at a very early age 

 from the control of our grandmother and mother, and dispensed 

 as often as possible with the attendance of our kind old groom, 

 who had taught us all to ride, really believing that we were in 

 every way capable of managing ourselves and our ponies. 

 And although it would not be advisable for every boy to 

 attempt this early emancipation in matters equine, yet it can 

 hardly be doubted that it made my brother, from a very early 

 age, a self-reliant horseman. 



The great love of horses which grew up with him, from the 

 day when at four years old he was presented with his first 

 mount, a very handsome Shetland pony, no doubt contributed 

 in a large measure to his wonderful judgment where horses 

 were concerned, and made him one of the soundest, as he was 

 one of the most popular judges at the hundreds of Horse 

 Shows at which he was called upon to adjudicate. I recall 

 that this same small steed gave him his initial taste for racing, 

 for the first time he mounted it, with much pride before an 

 admiring crowd, I amongst the number, it promptly ran away 

 with him round and round the field, but he stuck to it, and at 

 last reined it in before us in triumph. Frightened he was, no 

 doubt, but victorious. 



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