TOPICS OF THE SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 November 1907, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE SHOW.

A FAMOUS RIDER'S CAREER. Miss Maggie Hriggs, tiie fair and slim daughter or a 'Taranaki dairy, farmer, lias come rapidly to the front as a young horsewoman. It would not be fair perhaps to publish ,to tho world her exact ago, but slio will bo scarcely more than a girl, for some years to come yet. She has, however, been long known among her immediate friends about Inahn as li clever young horse-woman, who takes as naturally to a. saddle as a duck uoes 'to' water,.'and it is a man's saddle. "It is the only' saddle I .ever rode on,'' sho said to a Dominion representative at the Now Plymouth Show. "I began 'riding about'five years ago, • biit it is only;lately that I have commoted much. I hav'o won competitions at Fcilding, Mastertonj Hnwera, .Wanganui; and other show's. I won this year at flawera- and Wanganui, but I lost at Palriierston." ■ '■ You beat Mis 3 Abbott at Wanganui ? 1 ■ ". Yes, but she beat'me at Palmerston; To-day will be our third-'contest.' It will decide between, us.'.''' You- have taken : riding-lessons perhaps? . "0h,.n0. Nothing boyond my riding it homo, and-then, you know, the work doesn'tgivo me much- snare timo. . I didn't practise jumping' till, a. few ,weeks before the Manawatu snow." Do you take daily rides ? "No, only, occasionally; and then," she said archly, " I havo an escort—my halfbrother. Jack, aged two. Ho rides littlo Shetland ponies, that-1 have broken in' for him."