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WOMAN'S SIDE SADDLE WHAT OF THE HORSE? LONDON, March 17. «'The reaction in favor of women riding Ride-saddle seems destined to .succeed/' says the Daily Mail in a leading article, ''and the Richmond Show's decisions in that direction is likely to be conclusive.
"Women's crags-saddle seat owed its vogue to circumstances which had nothing to do with the merits of either strle. Women then merely wished to assert their rights by imitating men, tat women have now asserted their own status, and consequently the two tjaea of saddle can be judged according to the relevant human and equine physiology. "The majority of the authorities certainly favor the side-saddle, as it is suited to the peculiarities of female muscles, but from the viewpoint of the 3 horse a doubt remains. The main thing from the viewpoint of women is that a really skilled woman achieves far greater grace aside than astride."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16913, 30 March 1929, Page 15
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