HORSEMANSHIP
SAVES DUKE FROM SPILL
MOUNT BOGGED
BRISBANE, Dec. (1,
The Duke of Gloucester’s good horsemanship arid quickness of decision saved him from being thrown, and possibly injured, when the horse he was riding to-day in the Eagle Farm district, a few miles out of the city, floundered and became' bogged in a treacherous quagmire. The Duke was - unperturbed when the horse’s hind legs' sank between two and three feet into the mud as the top surface of the soil gave way, with the possibility of his mount sinking still deeper in tho mire. Exercising good horsemanship, the Duke lifted his mount under him and. urging it forward, extricated it from the boggy patch, and quickly gave it a solid footing. With the country becoming more boggy in the direction in which he was proceeding, the Duke accepted the advico of his party and made a detour that offered scope for a brisk gallop across neighboring paddocks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 7
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