THE ENGLISH HORSEMAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 4

THE ENGLISH HORSEMAN.

The fact that some Englishmen cannot adapt themselves straight away to the gyrations of the colonial brickjumper should not by any means be advanced as an argument that they cannot ride at all. In fact, according to Mr E. P. Walker, of the Sydney Stock Exchange, after a hunting season in England, the Englishman and also the Englishwoman who follow hounds have reached an equestrian standard that is particularly high. “I was hunting in Wiltshire,” said Mr Walker, “and what I saw there made me regret that I had ever thought disparagingly of the Englishman as a horseman. I have seen men come down the greateset croppers, and yet calmly mount again and ride r on. I have seen them rise at anything in the shape of an obstacle, an I I have seen an enthusiast following the hounds on horseback with his fractured arm in a sling. An example of pluck was shown me by a lady rider who fell in a ditch with her horse encumbering her. Yet she got up as though nothing had happened.” In the hunting field, Mr Walker declared, the Englishman stands by himself.