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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1021, 14 August 1883, Page 3

The Standard's , correspondent writing from Moscow says This morning I witnessed a wonderful display of horsemanship. It took place in the Petrovsky Parky Here, in the presence of the Grand Duke 'Nicholas and most of the foreign officers, the Guards went through an extraordinary series of exercises, which threw the most daring feats of the circus in the shade. The entire regiment went past at fall gallop, in loose order, with many of the men standirg upright in the saddle, others upon their heads with legs in the air j many leaping on to the ground and them into the saddle again in full speed, some springing over their horses’ heads and picking up stones from the ground, and yet regaining their seats. While performing these feats all were brandishing their sabres and firing pistols, throwing their carbines into the air and catching them again, and yelling like maniacs. Some men went in pairs, standing with a| leg on each other’s horses—one wild fellow carried . off another dressed as I a woman. The effect of the scene was absolutely bewildering, and it seemed as if the whole regiment had gone mad. Upon a signal being given the regiment divided into two parts. One rode off, the other halted and made their horses lie down oh thb groiibd and lay beside them, waiting, as ip war the approach of the enemy. The other'section of the regi,£ben„(&arged , and in an instant every jborse was on its feet, every zidejftmhfs saddle, and, with, wild yells, they' at their supposed Whence manoeuvres were over the.regiment rode past singing, and uncommonly, well together, a military chorus.