REMINISCENCES 



Arab Ermine win the Pony Handicap. Among the features 

 of this meeting was a memorable polo match, Chumparun 

 versus The World. Chumparun won ; the following competed : 

 World : Francis Murray, E. Macintosh, T. Eraser, R. Brown, 

 E. Drummond and W. Llewhellin; Chumparun: J. J, McLeod, 

 H. Eraser, R. Hudson, D. Reid, G. Nicolay and F. A. Shaw, 

 How few of this fine lot of horsemen are now left among us< 

 Of The World, Francis Murray, Toast Macintosh, Teddy Drum- 

 mond and Tom Fraser have all retired, while poor Rudston 

 Brown and Willie Llewhellin are dead. Of the Chumparunites 

 Harry Fraser, Rowland Hudson, Donald Reid and Ferdy Shaw 

 have gone home for good ; but the veteran Jimmy is well to the 

 fore, going as strong as ever, while Gilbert Nicolay is still with us. 

 A sad event occurred at the end of 1874 in the death of that fine 

 soldier and horseman Colonel James, who was killed by a fall 

 when pigsticking in Lower Bengal. 



After this Sonepore, Jimmy, Rowland Hudson, Gilbert 

 Nicolay, Bob Crowdy, Apples, and one or two more Behar 

 sportsmen went down to the Assensole Meeting, which was then 

 being run by that fine old Engineer, Mr. John Whitty, who put 

 them up in princely style. The purses were handsome and lot- 

 teries excellent. The Colliery Managers and Railway employes, 

 who were the principal residents, were as keen on racing as pos- 

 sible, and though they did not own any Highborns or Stings, they 

 were desperately excited over their one or two events, closed 

 to local cracks. One anxious owner who had seen Gilbert 

 perform the day before, asked him to ride; Gilbert said " Cer- 

 tainly," but when the mount was produced Gilbert was simply 

 struck dumb, a more unkempt, ill conditioned, awful looking 

 moke had never been brought upon a race course ; there was the 

 crack G.R. immaculately got up, and fancy his feelings at having 

 to pass the grand stand on this atrocious hair trunk. However it 

 was too late to refuse, and he sorrowfully led it away to the saddl- 

 ing shed. While tightening the girths, he overheard, through the 



