PART III 



CHAPTER VI 



BRILLIANT HORSEMEN 



It seems needless to emphasise how inexhaus- 

 tible is the subject of horses — one studied during 

 hundreds, even thousands of years by kings, 

 statesmen, soldiers, business men, and yet there 

 is so much to learn, that the task of giving the 

 faintest outline of what has been chronicled, and 

 what might be, seems hopeless. 



Here is a very incomplete sketch of some of 

 our most brilliant horsemen. Yet, just as 



" Many are poets who have never penned 

 Their inspiration, and perchance the best," 



SO are there countless instances of riders as good, 

 or nearly as good, as those I am about to refer to, 

 who, through lacking notoriety or good mounts, 

 are less known or only known locally. That this 

 must be so the reader will easily acknowledge 

 if he attends race-meetings in Buenos Ayres, 

 Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the 

 world where residents are lovers of thorough- 

 bred horses, and prepared to pay big prices for 

 them, or who breed them at great expense. 



It would, indeed, puzzle a first-rate judge of 

 pace to know how to class the horsemanship of 



