Photo, by Jl 7 . Till, Melton Moivbray. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Accident to Gustave Ranelagh Richmond The Duke of Cambridge 

 Management of Horse Shows Apathy of Londoners to Horse Shows 

 A Libel Action Berlin Berliner Tattersall German Riding and Break- 

 ing The Thiergarten Riding in Berlin The Points of the Horse Fillis 

 and Germinal Circus Renz Melton Mowbray Lectures Rugby 

 Yorkshire Leicestershire End. 



WE had hoped to have Gustave ready for the jumping 

 competitions at the Agricultural Hall ; but about a 

 month before that event came off, when practising him over a 

 broad water jump, he overreached badly on account of the land- 

 ing side being so soft from the infiltration of water, that he could 

 not get his forefeet quick enough out of the sticky ground to 

 avoid an accident I freely admit that this was due entirely 

 to my carelessness ; for no one knew better than I did, that 



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