10-MILE RACE BETWEEN TWO LADIES ON HORSEBACK.
We read in an American exchange that a ten-mile race has just been run at lowa, between two ladies on horseback—Mrs Burke and Miss Pinneo. Both had five swift-running horses, and at the end of each mile sprang from the horse they had ridden to the back of another, which three men were hardly able to hold. Mrs Burke’s horses were well known as running stock in Nebraska; and Miss Pinneo rode five wild and almost unmanageable brutes, which she brought from Colorado. At the end of the ninth mile Miss Pinneo was thoroughly exhausted, and begged her father to excuse her from riding the last mile. “No,” he replied, “you must ride it if it kills you.” Miss Pinneo did ride it, but Mrs Burke won the race by over a mile—her time for ten miles being 21 minutes 49 seconds, and Miss Pinneo’s time 23 min. 40 secs. It has frequently been urged that horseracing was intended to improve the breed of the horse, but we fail to see how such scenes as that recorded above can either improve the horse or develop any womanly virtues.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1013, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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19510-MILE RACE BETWEEN TWO LADIES ON HORSEBACK. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1013, 17 December 1881, Page 3
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