The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs (1905) (14594023148)

Identifier: sportsofworldwit00afla (find matches)

Title: The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs

Year: 1905 (1900s)

Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918

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Publisher: London Paris New York : Cassell

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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rovincial countrieswhich it has been my good fortune to visit ; butwhat they lack in size is more than compensatedfor by their quantity and variety. If one meansto see sport one must be prepared to jump what-ever Providence—in the shape of the farmers—hasput in your way. At one moment you may haveto creep down and up a muddy bottom wherean impetuous thoroughbred would probably cometo grief, and five minutes afterwards you mayhave to face naked post-and-rails, or a deepbrook with rotten banks, no Shallow-dug pan with a hurdle to screen it.That cocktail imposture, the steeple-chase brook, but rather the stamp of water-jump described byWhyte-Melville :— Id a lead of them all when we came to the brook,A big one—a bumper—and up to your chin ;As he threw it behind him, I turned for a look,There were eight of us had it, and seven got in. But, if the first requisites in a hunter for theProvinces are the ability and willingness to jumpor get over by creeping or climbing anything that

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zo h I-ul cc h Q Z O I zo I-I o <Z.l- THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. comes in his way, it is hardly less essential thathe should possess strong staying powers. In theProvinces second horsemen are the exceptionrather than the rule, and the horse that leaves

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