BRITISH RIDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 13

BRITISH RIDING

WINS MILITARY EVENT

The British Army team competing at the American National Horse Show covered itself with glory at Madison Square Garden, when 16,000 excited spectators saw it win the international military team "championship, says the "Daily Telegraph." American writers confessed their .astonishment that such a feat should have been possible with four horses which were bought from English farmers and none of which cost more than £60. Kineton, on which Lieutenant J. A. Talbot-Ponsonby, of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, won the International Individual Military championship on a previous night, and was largely responsible for the later triumph, once pulled a plough. Experts were amazed by the - self-assurance and ease with which Lieutenant Talbot-Ponsonby took this solid bay gelding over sixty-nine successive fences on two successive evenings with only one fault. The Irish Free State took second place in the Military Team championship, with the United States a close third The result was in the balance until Lieutenant Talbot-Ponsonby had cleared the last fence in the final jumpoff. " A CLEAN SWEEP. His faultless last ride left the British team in the happy position of having made a clean sweep of the three most important military events of the S Previously Lieut. Talbot-Ponsonby, with the chestnut gelding McGuire, captured the coveted Brooks-Bright Cup, which he also won in 1931. He is only twenty-nine and was taught by his father, Major E. F. Tal-bot-Ponsonby, Master of the East Devon Foxhounds. He is an instructor at Weedon Cavalry School, NorthampHis companions in the British team were Captain R. G. Fanshawe, 16th--sth Lancers, riding, a brown mare called Norah; Captain Sir Peter GrantLawson, Royal Horse Guards, riding Baby, a bay gelding; and Major A. L. Cameron, Royal Horse Artillery, who commanded the team, on a chestnut mare, Blue Dun.