THE CZAR'S FAVOURITE MOUNT.
The linrse that the Czar rode on the occasion of his coronation is an English-bred mure 13 rears old, named Norma. Shu is light gtey in colour. Normals the Czar's favourite mount. He has lidden her for years, and she was the lirst torse he had uiven him when lie was a chubby-laced Cesarewilch and Imperial honours seemed a long way in the futuro. There is something touching in the young Emperor's reinenibeiiug his old horse at such a time, for the horse that heals * Russian Emperor to his coronation is thencefouvard a sacred animal. And theie weie far more showy animals in the 1 nip< rial stables than lll<<lll<l giey mare, but I he honour was reserved tur Norma, and she \va« accordingly shod with silver shoes. [''olowiug a very anci< lit Kiism 11 custom, she ni'l nev<*r lie ridden again, ln.l <wll spei.it Ihe irit ot her 11! <• in h'Turmus ease as a royal i 1 1 siorit r.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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165THE CZAR'S FAVOURITE MOUNT. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 5
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