BLIND BOY BIDES HORSE.—Peter Richards, a 15-year-old Australian who has been blind since birth, riding his skewbald hone, Pops, round his father’s farm at Blackwarry, Victoria. “I’m never scared of Pope,” said Peter. “She has a lot of common sense, you know. She’s not going to fling herself into any walls or fences.” Peter, who attends a school tor the blind, recently passed exacting tests for the Boy Scouts' horsemanship proficiency badge.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30041, 28 January 1963, Page 3
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72BLIND BOY BIDES HORSE.—Peter Richards, a 15-year-old Australian who has been blind since birth, riding his skewbald hone, Pops, round his father’s farm at Blackwarry, Victoria. “I’m never scared of Pope,” said Peter. “She has a lot of common sense, you know. She’s not going to fling herself into any walls or fences.” Peter, who attends a school tor the blind, recently passed exacting tests for the Boy Scouts' horsemanship proficiency badge. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30041, 28 January 1963, Page 3
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