HORSEMANSHIP EXTRAORDINARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1150, 18 September 1883, Page 3

HORSEMANSHIP EXTRAORDINARY.

A correspondent of one of the London dailies at Moscow, describes someifeats of horsemanship ’performed hr:; the Petroffsky Park by the ■ Cossack Guards before; the Grand Diike Nicholas and a distinguished company as / coippletely throwing in the shade the most daring feats of the circus. The entire regiment went past at full gallop in loose order, with many of the men standing upright iitifthe) saddle, others, upop .their .heads . witfi- their feet in the) air, man^,Reaping on to ! the ground and” thenjhto the saddle again at full speed, some springing oyer their horses’ heads, and picking up stones from the ground, and yet regaining their seajls. While, performing these feats all were brandishing their sabres] and firing pistol?, throwing their carbines.into the air and 'catching them again, And'yelling like’maniacs.'' Sotne J men went past in pairs, standing with a leg on each other’s horses ; one wild follow carried off another dressed as a woman. The effect of the. scene was absolutely bewildering, and it seemed as if the whole regiment had gone mad; Upon| a signal 1 being given; the regiment divided into two parts. One rode off; the other halted, and made) their horses lie down on the ground and lay ■ beside them, waiting as in war, the approach of an enemy. The other section of the regiment then charged down, and in an instant every horse was .on its feet, ' every rider in his saddle, and with yells rode at the supposed enemy. When these manoeuvres ; were oyer, the regiment rode past singing, and uncommonly well together, a military chorus.