COMMANDING OFFICER'S OPINION 15 



" Of course you can never be like us " 



(meaning by ** us " the thoroughbred type), 



" Of course you can never be like us, 

 But be as like us as you are able to be." 



It may strengthen your courage in your 

 choice if I tell you that our Commanding 

 Officer, Lord Waterford, although himself 

 more of a believer in the hunter than the 

 race-horse, likes to see the thoroughbred in 

 the ranks. I remember a few years ago I 

 sold a very beautiful litde race-horse, called 

 Rubric, to one of our most sporting N.C.O.'s, 

 Sergeant Franks. This horse was quite 

 capable of winning high-class races, only 

 that he early took it into his head that 

 racing was a silly game, and decided not to 

 try. Well, at the first mounted parade the 

 Colonel called my attention to this horse, as 

 being his ideal mount for our game. I 

 believe Rubric found heart enough to win 

 our Troopers' Race, and I saw him win other 

 contests of a more rough-and-tumble kind ; 

 but I only mention him here to show that 

 you will not be wrong, in your Commanding 



