Mr. Alexander Goodman 



Several of these, however, supported the horse for small sums 

 in spite of his warning. 



Alec Goodman had remarkable success in the National 

 Hunt Steeplechase, winning it three times out of four rides, viz. 

 in 1863 on The Czar, only five ran ; in 1865 on Mr. Chaplin's 

 Emperor, when there were twenty-nine runners; and in 1866 

 on Mr. Studd's Shangarry, beating sixteen others ; the one 

 losing mount being in the race at Market Harborough in 1861, 

 when Oueensferry won, on which occasion he rode Mr. John 

 Gurden's Robin Redbreast, who started second favourite, but 

 was unplaced. 



The Czar on whom Alec Goodman won at Market 

 Harborough in 1863, beating Bridegroom and Penarth, the 

 latter described as the grandest horse ever sent from South 

 Wales to do duty as a steeplechaser — was a fourteen-year-old 

 hunter belonging to his friend Mr. John Goodliffe, so that the 

 result of the race was most acceptable to the hunting men, and 

 when on the same day he won the Great Corinthian on Socks 

 for Lord Calthorpe and the Farmers' Grand Annual on Mr. 

 J. S. Bennett's Lady Florence, their enthusiasm knew no 

 bounds. 



As Alec went to the post on The Czar his face was so 

 expressive of confidence as to elicit the remark from jocular 

 Tom Olliver, " Vo?i see77i as though you had been living on live 

 birds ^ you look so sharp." 



Sir Peter Laurie was a horse his name was much associated 

 with in his early riding days, and his portrait, with himself in 

 the saddle and his owner, Mr. Charles Bevill, at his head, was 

 presented to Alec Goodman by a number of his hunting friends 

 at a banquet in his honour at the Haycock at Wansford in 

 the autumn of 1890. 



Sir Peter was a bad starter, and they generally had a man 



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