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from Brailsford in the same year. She was up to sixteen 

 stone, he said ; she could gallop all day, jump anything, 

 and could come out two days a week — a rare poor man's 

 horse. Could there be higher praise ? For, mind you, to 

 jump anything and gallop all day twice a week with her 

 owner up meant doing something. She won three steeple- 

 chases to boot, at Derby and Uttoxeter, and was never 

 parted with. Grayling, a son of hers, bought by Sir Peter 

 Walker, won the Cheshire point-to-point steeplechase. 



Mr. Power is a welter weight, but being a very strong, 

 resolute horseman, he goes the shortest way, and he and 

 his horse can crash through lots of places which would 

 turn over a lighter pair. He once reduced his weight by 

 twenty-three pounds in ten days for a considerable wager 

 to ride his horse Monte, in the first of Sir Peter Walker's 

 point-to-point races at Bradley, and won it. On another 

 occasion he got off fourteen pounds in a very short time, 

 having actually fasted for twenty-four hours before the 

 race, to ride his Faro in the point-to-point at Ednaston, 

 and again won Sir Peter's heavy-weight race. 



In 1883, like a great many other people, he went 

 ranching in Wyoming, but the love of hunting was too 

 strong in him to admit a rival, and every winter saw him 

 at home. So ranching and money-making had to go to 

 the wall. But no man worked harder while he was at it, 

 and no one more thoroughly enjoyed a day after black- 

 tail deer in the foot hills on a bright September morning. 

 He roughed it, too, with the best of them — so much so, 

 that, when he went to fight in South Africa in 1900 with 

 the Derbyshire Yeomanry — in which regiment he was 

 granted a lieutenant's commission — he found the hardships 

 of a campaign mere child's play. In the campaign he got 

 his chance, and, with the same rapid promptitude which 

 marked him in the hunting-field, took advantage of it, 

 distinguishing himself, and earning the soubriquet of "No 

 Surrender Power." * On his return home, invalided with 

 a bullet-wound in his head, he met with an enthusiastic 



* Since this was written lie has been presented with the D.S.O. 



