HUNTING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 710, 15 October 1903, Page 21

HUNTING.

Last week I wrote about the married ladies following the Pakuranga hounds, so this week I will take some of the unmarried ones. . Miss, Ethel Abbott comes firse. bhe is one of the best girls in the country to manage, a horse, and always rides astride. She has. splendid hands, and one never sees her pulling her mount in all directions until the poor brute does not know where it is or what it is expected to do. This past season she has been riding Arkau. a big black horse, and one of the boldest jumpers in the field. He was comparatively raw when Miss Abbott got him some eighteen months ago, but under her tuition has become a good hunter. Miss Buckland and Miss Maud Buck I- rhave been greatly missed in the field, and much sympathy was felt for them in the loss of their father. r I he late Mr Altred Buckland was one of the founders of the Pakuranga Hunt Club.

Miss Olive Buckland, who this year won the Point-to-Point, Steeplechase. has a very pretty seat on a horse, but then there never was a Buckland to my knowledge who could not ride, and ride well. Taranaki has had his first hunting experience under Miss Buckland's guidance, an< has never once turned his head. She rode Whirlwind at the beginning of the season. There is nothing like a variety oi mounts to keep one up to the mark. Miss Gray., of Papatoetoe, has keen hunting very regularly this year. > he rides , a bay horse whose name I do not know, but he is a good fencer, and she is generally well up in the field. Miss Gorrie has not been out as regularly this year as in past seasons, owing

to her old favourite Jimmy being somewhat off-colour. However, the days she was out. he went well, and kept up his reputation as being one of the best horses in the field. Miss Nora Corrie has hunted very icffularlv. Starlight, her mount, is a bay horse on the heavy side ; he is rather a difficult horse for a lady to hunt as he needs a lot of‘ riding. He is, however, particularly good over wire, and seems to prefer it to walls or post and rails.