A WONDERFUL HORSEMAN.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 570, 17 April 1876, Page 3

A WONDERFUL HORSEMAN.

THE PRINCE OF WALES WITNESSES HIS REMARKABLE FEATS. On the 28tli of December thoro was alevet at Government House that was terribly crowded. On the 291 h the prince visited Soindia, who did the honours royally, and a‘ the prince took his seat made a salaam with his hands clasped together before he sai down on his left. Of the famous Maharaja! Dr Russel says :—“ He can handle a division of the three arms better than most, and as well as any division general named in Hart.’ As a horseman he is not to be excelled for lightness of hand and firmness of seat. He could not, perhaps, go across tin country in the first flight at the very outset but he can lift ahorse to s:and on its hind legs so bolt upright that a hair trigger touch on the bit would throw it over on its back ; and nitting so balanced to a hair, make it walk on its hind legs in an attitude the maddest equestrian of the circus would noi venture to urge * cul to emulate. He is

rough, they say, in speech, but that his sentiments arc noble enough may be inferred from his answer when the Bombay Government desired to buy from him a site for the palace at Gunesh Khiud, near Poonah. The land belonged to his father, and bcindia was a native of the place. ‘ A man,’ said he, 1 does not sell his patrimony ; but he can give it to bis friend.’ ” On his return the Prince attended the races. The 30th was a blank day. On the Slat, besides some minor visits, the Prince “ assisted at” a grand exhibition of horsemanship by the troopers of the Tenth Native Cavalry. Indian tent-pegs are larger, longer and stick deeper than those used in tentpegging in England. The troopers dashed full gallop one after the other at the pegs, which were replaced as fast as they were drawn. Then rupees were put on the tentpegs to be knocked off by the lance-point without touching the peg. This was done better and oftener than the succeeding exercise of cutting or spearing oranges on tent peg tops. Handkerchiefs were laid on the ground, and the troopers, riding hard, made swoops at them, and missed or caught them up. One man managed to take three in succession in the same gallop. There were exhibitions of horsemanship which might be described as of a circus character, but for this difference —the horses were not ridden at a regulation stride, at a sk Ilf ally adjusted ■ingle, but were ridden boldly about on the hard plain, and everything was done by baud bit and balance.