Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30
NOTABLE FEATS
OF ~H0nSEMANSHIP
More Than -Four Hundred Mile
Has Been Covered in Less
Than Three Days.
BY An ENGLISH RIDER


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ia.n the .u.Mite .dac nc tra.elei a, far
his r.n hol.s.. AZ W4h~frston. where
h. .ieat some t.lae in transferring bust
.s. and s;|ar,tart lrlv .a,. lext morning
4 Aa .ula ha4e reached Edinburgh hy
f~1iiiay mad not an accident by ihe waH
! Jay .i man. rs 1T was ne 'ariIi"s'd 'Ae
Nlole l2l!4ieY OF AZ" nli,S witlin thfes
Nearly a century earlier the great MOI
s'E, th"n Il ROYAL chaplain, MADE Il re-
inarEap.Y quick Jpi.Fn"y 10 IN" low crln
Nres to Interview the I'm" ror MaNmiinn
leaving LONDON AZ \ O'Clock IN IN" al'er-
noon, ne Travelled by boat TO 'fiNesehu
rode through the nlSht to Dover ami.
crossing 10 Calais. finished his Journey en-
horseback. reaching MaNlTlilan mo sans
evening. ON the foilowlng morning ne rode
post haste back 70 Calais. ana was az
Richmond at sunset. after travelling to
HOLLAND and Lack III littie more than TWO
Nays.
To find anything ike a match for these
feats, We me- corrc down to the last cen
fury. who. .oash Africa was the scene OF
,"o astonishing performances. In one, Sir
Henry Smith. just after the outbreak Of
the Kafir war. seventy years ago. car
ricd the news from Cape town to Ora
Jamestown in six days, riding a distance OF
90 miles over a wild and almost trackless
country; and again Richard King is cred
ited with a notable feat of endurance in
riding 600 miles. from Durham TO Grahams-
town, IN ten days. through a country in
tested with enemies and over a multitude
of swollen and bridgeless rivers. every one
of which his horse mad to swim.
Soma Raoe,+ Rccorde
I, ,o,a,, no mos, f,,,rrs of LON,
at.,,rc. r,das uas ,n,t in,Irur,t.d hv
,ha car.a 80. ,h;rtaon ,a,r. 400
,.,,o, .no nrr,arr as.nra1 g. ~ fro,, per.
In to vionna , dis,.nno Of cSn kjIo,,eters
r, na. 800, c.nrh.n,Lara Who
an,,Ia.aa .,a Ia,n ;avrnn, i, =, he,,rs %
min',tos ,hus socnrinr - si,,,-. hnst of
49, 1.ats, ~ 5a,,,an % 1000, r,ya az
o., onn us ,ntarrn,,o norsa an ,ot 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. Gothari Pass and spending twenty
hours each day on horseback.
a few years since five lieutenants 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 Relfort, arriving at
in the afternoon. They then dismounted.
put on civilian clothes, and walked to Il
town twcnty-four miles away: here they
dined. then walked back to Belfort, sad
died their horses. and completed the jour
ney to Gray, which they reached the fol-
lowing afternoon at 3 O'Clock. having COW
cred 1872 niles in thirty-six hours on horse
back and on foot.
A very memorable performance was that
of Cowper Thcrnhill. host of the Bell Inn
at Stilton, in Hun~tingdonshire, who made
ton and Shoreditch church-a total dis
lance of 23 miles-in IL hours and II min
lltGS Tins winning a wager of IM0 GynineaS