Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport

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Various. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport

Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport

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RIDING IN IRELAND AND INDIA

HUNTING IN THE SHIRES

HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS

THE WIFE OF THE M. F. H

FOX-HUNTING

TEAM AND TANDEM DRIVING

"TIGERS I HAVE SHOT."

RIFLE-SHOOTING

DEER-STALKING AND DEER-DRIVING

SHOOTING

A KANGAROO HUNT

CYCLING

PUNTING

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Published by Good Press, 2019

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People vary considerably in their notions of the right stamp; but most men and women who know anything about horses look out for quality, good bone, loose elbows, active shoulders, strong back, clean hocks, and a head put on the right way; whether in a horse over sixteen-hands or a pony. A judge of horse flesh will never be mistaken about these qualifications, either in the meanest-looking cab horse or a rough brute in a farmyard.

Hunting people of long experience will tell us they have had one horse in their lives. One that suited their temperament, that they took greater liberties with, that gave them fewer falls, and showed them more sport than all the others. Whyte Melville says, "Forty minutes over an enclosed country establishes the partnership of man and beast in relation of confidence." The combination of pluck, decision and persuasion in a man, and nervous susceptibility in a horse, begets intimacy and mutual affection which many married couples might envy. One horse may make a man's reputation, and pleasantly raise the average of an unequal, even shady, lot in his sale at Tattersall's.

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