Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶Try to keep on the inside of the circle when the hounds turn toward you. It makes your horse last longer because he has less distance to go. ¶If you override the hounds, do not tell the Master you could not hold your horse. "Simply say, 'Sorry...
¶When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and...
¶When the fox goes to ground, "do not ride up to the earth and try to look into it. There is nothing to see, only a hole. If you insist on making yourself useful, ask the huntsman if you may hold his horse for him."
*Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor...
"I think a fellow who would pay $1,000,000 for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner...