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: y ';tM;-daxbr'THE sipe-sAddle. .../ ,:,;"VVith:;otlier /old-fashioned _ideas, .right- or •wrong, .the; day; Of .'the lady 'side-saddle, rideris passing; away; "This'fact, .was.'in evidence .at,, tho] juriipirig'"bptripetitions,.. where the -girls'' who .rode..astride." outnumbered their sidesaddle sisters - by'*'five -to one. 'In riding : over hurdles the: new,-style has. all. the advantage. The; rider'appears to have better control over, ; her-horse it nan ,'i f .'she rode i ri ', tho old way, and. :-it;i.'was;i plains that she - made fewer .'. mistakes' In fact, she made no mistakes, 'unless it was, the .dare-devil, manner in.'which- shoj-scnt .her horse ;at, the •jump's.' And;",;as;'an;:eque'strienne, she gave a dashing exhibitioii, beside ■: which ■'• tho display ~of. the :adherenti,tb. the/side-saddle paled. Some.:, of the ladies,each;.rodetwp cr three herses, and they meiintedland dismpunted with an acro.bati(!..agility" which' was''positively bewildering to'theless adroit.; .Everything else boinT,equal,', the' kide-saddlo' should be as extinct as the moa in';the.course of a few years.,:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 8
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145ALMOST ENDED. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 8
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