The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-24
NOTABLE FEATS
H. OF ~H0RSEMANSHIP
More Than -Four Hundred Miles
Has Been Covered in Less
Than Three Days.
BY AN ENGLISH RIDER
IN 1859 an oiFicer in British Army Roda
E;f=sen Miles in sixty-iNine Min
,:sss With His Face 80
Horses Tail.
BY AN ENGLISH RIDER
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For combined speed and endurance 1t is
probable that two riding feats of some
centuries ago have never been eclipsed.
When Queen Elizabeth died Robert Cary
set forth on the loag journey to Isdin-
burgh to carry the news to her successor
on the throne, James vi. of Scotland. Rid
ing out of Whitehall between 9 and 10
O'Clock on a Thursday morning he reached
Doncaster. 1o miles away, the same night.
ON the following day he travelled as far
as his own house at Witherington, where
he spent some time in transacting bust
ness, and starting early the next morning
he could have reached Edinburgh by
midday had rot an accident by the way
delayed him. AS it was he completed the
whole journey OF 400 miles within three
says.
Nearly a century earlier the great Koi.
sey, then a royal chaplain, made a re-
markedly quick journey to the low coun.
Nr.es to Interview the Emperor Macmillan.
Leaving London at 4 O'Clock in the after-
noon. he travelled by. boat to Gravesend.
rode through the night to Dover, and,
crossing to Calais, finished his journey on
horseback. reaching MACMILLAN the same
evening. On the following morning he rode
post haste back to Calais. and was at
Richmond at sunset. after travelling to
Holland and back N little more than two
Says.
To find anything like a match for these
teats, we must come down to the last CEN
fury, when South Africa was the scene OF
two astonishing performances. In one. Sir
Henry Smith, just after the outbreak OF
the kaffr war, seventy years ago, car
rled the news from Cape town to Ora
Jamestown in six days, riding a distance OF
7O miles over a wild and almost trackless
country; and again Richard King is cred
tied with a notable feat of endurance tn
riding GOO miles. from Durham to Grahams-
town, in ten days, through a country in
Tested with enemies and over a multitude
OF swollen and bridgeless rivera. every one
OF which his horse had TO swim.
Some Recent Records.
In recent years the most famous Of long
distance rides was that inaugurated by
the German emperor thirteen years ago.
when 200 officers essayed to ride from Ber-
lin, to Vienna, a distance OF $50 kilometers.
The winner was Count Starhemberg, who
completed the long journey in II hours 20
minutes, thus securing a silver bust of
The Raiser, in addition to a money prize of
s1,0W. HIS unfortunate horse did not sur
vive the contest. A little later Captain
Spillberg covered the $40 miles between
Saarbrucken, on the frontier OF Lorraine.
and Rome In thirteen days, crossing the
ST. Gothard Pass and spending twenty
hours each day on horseback.
A few years since five lieutenarrts of the
Twelfth Hussar regiment of France ac-
compl.shed a wonderful feat. Leaving
Gray at 3. O'Clock in the morning. they rode
seventy-two miles to Belfort, arriving at
4 in the afternoon. They then dismonnted,
put on civilian clothes. and walked to a
town twenry-four miles away; here they
dined, then walked back to Be1fbrt,. sad
died their horses. and completed the Jour
ney to Gray, which they reached the fol-
lowing afternoon at 3 O'Clock, having Gov
ara5 100 y,,f1ac ", fFuirtJ.Siv hnl1ro an, |hNrSp,
back and ON foot
A very memorable performance was that
of Cowper ThornhiIl, host of the Ben Inn
at Stilton, in Huntingdonshire, who made
three Journeys between his house at Still
ton and Shoreditch church-a total. dis
lance of 213 miles-in u hours and III min
utes, thus winning a wager of 500 guineas;
as was ALSO that ride of Bernard Calvert
OF Andover. who, leaving Shoredltch at :
o'clock in the morning, rode to Dover.
crossed to Calais and back and, renrount-
ing his horse, arrived at Shoreditch at !
o'clock the same evening. after covering
142 miles On horseback.
200 Miles in Eight Hours.
Squire Osbaldeston once covered aN
miles at Newmarket in 8 hours 40 mitErtes,
using no, fewer than twenty-eight horses,
Mr.. Wilde rode III miles at the CuT1agh
in 6 hours 81 minutes; and Leon, the. Next
can rider, whom many OF our readers will
remember, rode sos miles in less than
fifty hours in February, 1877. In 175s Jen-
nison shafto won a substantial wager by
! riding fifty miles or Newmarket Heath in
l hour and 40 minutes, using ten horses.
In November, 1889, an officer IN the
Ayrshire Light Dragons put 100 suineas
In his pocket by riding fifteen miles on
i the Chelmsford and Dunhow road In sixty
nine minutes, with his face to his horses's
tail: and as a finish to these riding feats
a Jockey cleverly piioted a donkey over a
journey Of 100 miles at Newmarket in
twenty-one hours, though odds of 100 to 10
were laid that the ass would not do the
distance under twenty-four hours.
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