CHAPTER V 



JUST a few more words that touch on pony 

 racing, inasmuch as Missenden witnessed 

 a celebration which excited much local 

 interest. We had not been long established 

 at the ancient Abbey before a brain wave struck us. 

 Why not get up a meeting of " the miniatures " ? No 

 sooner thought of than carried out by the genius of 

 organization possessed by Ted. One adjacent field 

 lent itself tolerably well to the venture, and all went 

 swimmingly. My friends of the cult rallied to the 

 call nobly, and we had quite a representative entry. 

 Among those who patronized the meeting being J. B. 

 (" Bunny ") Leigh, " Gratty " Blagrave, and one 

 Charlie A' Court, afterwards known in the Great War 

 as " Eye Witness " otherwise Col. C. A. Repington, 

 whose " Reminiscences " afterwards created such a 

 flutter in the social dove-cotes. These were not the 

 days of Catona, Etna, Epsom Embrocation & Co. ; 

 but that useful mare of all work, Phyllis, nobly 

 represented the home string, and what is more, helped 

 me to lift a couple of races. 



There was an event open only to horses ridden by 



patrons of the M. and H.V.H., in which I had entered 



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