HORSEMANSHIP EXTRAORDINARY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1081, 3 September 1883, Page 2

HORSEMANSHIP EXTRAORDINARY.

A correspondent of one of the London dailies at Moscow describes some feats of horsemanship performed in the Petroifsky Park by the Cossack Guards before the Grand Duke Nicholas and a distinguished company* as completely throwing in the shade the most daring feats of the circus. The .entire regiment went past at full gallop in loose order, with many of the men standing upright in the saddle, others upon their heads with their legs in the air* many leaping on to the ground. and then into the saddle again at full speed, some springing over their horses’, and picking up stones from the ground;^,; yet regaining their seats. While performing these feats all were brandishing their sabres and firing pistpls, throwing. their car- - bines into the air and catching them again, and yelling like riianiacs; Some men went past in pairs, standing with a leg:on each other’s, horses; one wild; fellow carried off another dressed us 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 on the ground and lay beside them, waiting, as in war, the approach Of- an enemy-, The mother section of iK6? ; regiment then charged down, and in an instant every horse .was on its feet, every, rider- in his,saddle, and with wild yells they rode at' the supposed enemy, When these mttnceiirres were over, the regiment rode past singing, and uncommonly well together, a military chorus. , „• . 'r- ;