Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-07-28
WOMAN SMASHES
RIDING RECORDS
Twenty Relays Of Horses Used ii
Making 212 Miles in Is
Hours.

Washington, July 25.-Talk about Presi
dent Roosevelts riding tests for army Of.
icers Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. Wash.
ington society leader and noted horse
woman, has just completed a ride that
makes even Colonel Roosevelis record ride
from the White House to Warrenton. Va
pale In comparison She rode from het
place, 'Ashantee." at Avon. near Genesee,
n. Y, 1928 miles In actual riding time OF
fifteen hours and seven minutes, It Is IL
all probability the worlds record
President Roosevel,s famous ride from
the White House to Warrenton covered
distance OF ninety-eight miles in fourteen
hours. and he used but i've relays OF
horses. The roads were bad and IT was
winter time. and that was spoken OF as
a remarkable feat. There Is legend, I'M
substantiated, that Buffalo Bill once rode
300 miles in twentyfour hours, and there
are supposed to have been some famous
riding feats performed by post riders for
the postofce department. but. 80 far
as records go. Mrs. Wadsworth's wonder
full endurance ride beats them all hollow.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature Of
| the ride Is the fact that Mrs. Wadsworth
| is not supposed to he Injured to such hard
ships record ride. She did not train
return she rose at her usual hour,
quarter after seven. and suffered absolute
| ~ no III effects from It,
| Mrs Wadsworth was Miss Martha
Blow OF St Louis She lives at 1901
Massachusetts avenue and during tho
season Is an indefatigable entertainer
though even in the height Of the sea-
son she keeps up her horse back riding
from Washin gton to "Ashantee" on
horseback.
Last April she rode from Washing
ton to Luray. Va. and return. accom-
panied by Miss Mary Carlisle, Lieuten-
ant Commander Henry V. Butler. and
Messrs Reginald and Frederic Huide-
koper. Just now she is en- route to
Fort wingate. n. NJ, where she will
be Joined by the Assistant Secretary
Of War, Gen eral oliver, her niece. Miss
SmirnoT, Miss oliver. Captain Frank
Mccoy. and Mr.. Reginald Huidexoper.
for n ride of several hundred miles.
during which they expect TO see tho
celebrated Moki Indian snake dance.
In her record breaking ride Mrs.
Wadsworth used twenty relays Of
horses She actually rode fourteen
The horses are Mrs. wadsworth's own
hunters, four of them halfbreeds and
ten thoroughbreds The shortest re-
lay covered by any one Of the horses
was nine miles The longest was
eleven and three quarters miles. Four
OF these animals were only four-year-
olds broken last May.
The record ride was begun at $3.50 in the
| IA
) Wadsworth was followed by friends in
automobiles. The distance of each round
was 54.4 miles She felt no exhaustion dur
ing the long ride, hut on the last round
she took a doctor with her to settle tho
question as to whether she was riding on
her nerve alone. She secured a certrcata
from the physician that at no time during
: the ride was she severely taxed physically.
= During this ride of 2lo3 Mrs Wads-
- worth lost only one and onc-half pounds
in weight, and drank only three-fourtha
+, of glass OF water. half a glass at noon
=, and quarter of glass at five o'clock.
n At the end OF the second round sht
/, stopped for sixty-two minutes, and Mt thu
!, end of the third round she stopped fol
eghty-two minutes. Her actual time ir
q the saddle was 10 hours and minutes.
:, A remarkable feature of Mrs Wads
worth's performance was that the average
time per mile for the first 53.4 miles wa:
three minutes and seven seconds. which II
itself constitutes a record. The averag,
per mile for the first ll76 miles was three
minutes and nfty-four seconds.
= The ride was made by Mrs. Wadswortf
TO see what could be accomplished in thi.
way without especial training of either
rider or horses. The result Is record
that has probably never been surpassed
certainly never by a woman.