A TREMENDOUS JUMP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 3

A TREMENDOUS JUMP.

At the recent meeting of the Warrentown, Va., Riding Club, Mr. Lud lain's chestnut gelding, Mcrad, six ynars old* by Jonesboro out of Shrew by Red Eye, ridden l)y H. Bartels, and carrying 1561b5., in clearing one of the hurdles, made the extraordinary jump of thirtysix feet, measuring from where hUlsind feet left ground, to the point where they again reached ground. . Tho leap was made after the horse had gone two miles, at the last jump in the race, which was a very wide sod wall, four feet high, with a ditch six feet wide, in front of it. Just before coming to this jump, the horse showed an inclination to bolt, and became very hard to control; He rushed at the wall, at? near top speed, took oifover twenty feet this side, and, by throwing his fore-quarters high in the air, cleared the obstacle. The distance cleared, from the point the hind feet left the ground, to where the front feet touched ground, was 42 feet. These facts are attested by gentlemen of character, who witnessed the leap, and immediately measured ifc by a standard rule. This feat is only excelled, by the performance of Chandler, who, ridden by Capt. Broadley, at Warwick, England, in 1847, cleared 37 feet, over water. For many years, the distance of this leap has been recorded as 39 feet, but this has been corrected by Captain Broadley himself. Murad's performance is confessedly the best in the United States.