DARING GIRL RIDER.

Shannon News, 16 October 1923, Page 3

DARING GIRL RIDER.

GREAT CROWD THRILLED. SENSATION AT HORSE SHOW. A pretty twelve-year-old girl, with gold on curls, gave 15,000 people the shock of their lives at Watford Horse . Show, says a London paper. Slie was riding a magnificent young chestnut mare. ' whose beautifully shaped flanks gleamed like silken sheen in the sunlight. , Suddenly the mare broke into a furious gallop, and sped along at a pace which would have made even Mumtaz ‘Mahal blink. The little girl astride in the saddle, leaned forward like a born jockey. She had circled the great-enclosure twice like two flashes from a gun, and was going round agaiii at a faster pace. Every pair of hands in the crowd clapped, and then it seemed to dawn on everyone at the same moment that the galloping horse was out of control.

The clapping, ceased as if by magic Women stood up in their seats in the stands and clenched their hands and every eye anxiously followed Hie careering chestnut mare, which never slackened for a 'moment’s fraction at even the sharpest turns until a score of men, like a solid phalanx, bayred its way.

Two of them gripped the bridle and everyone breathed again. The fair rider just smiled, pulled her sunbonnet over her head, pushed back a truant curl from her flushed - cheek, and* waved aside the two men from her mount’s hear!. ‘‘ What on earth is all this fuss about ? ” she asked.

“ I was just,: showing you what Stray Moments could do. The dear would not run away with me for anything ! ”

Then, before the astonished men who handle horses every day of their lives, could utter a syllable. Stray Moments was off again in high glee, her pretty rider’s curls waving like a gleam of sunshine behind her bonnet. She/was simply "No. 133 ” to the crowd. Her name'is Rettv Bulger, and everyone;.at her home knows her as the finest little .horsewoman for many miles around.