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Saddle horses, too, have had better times during recent years, chiefly because of the popularity of hunting and polo and as a result of the Army's creation of the Remount Service, which breeds good horses for possible military use. In 1914 French and British buyers took the best of the Western horses. Three years later the U. S. Government could not find enough first-class saddle horses to equip a single cavalry division (4,000 horses). Previously Western horses had deteriorated through large purchases by the British for the Boer War and because of an admixture of homesteaders...
Said the letter, published in Polo's current issue: "There is no protection for the injured player, and nowadays it is made a point of honor with a player that he continue to play if he can possibly remount his horse. This is typically a man's attitude . . . and I do not hesitate to point out that it is silly...
...shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian, his shoulder heavily bandaged, was barely able to remount his vehicle, but McNamara shook himself, got up, pedaled the last mile and won the race, 2,286 miles, 146 pedaling hours...
...Thursday afternoon, April 21. A squad of five enlisted men and a truck containing cooking utensils, shelter tents and blankets will accompany the students, who will pitch camp the first night in the vicinity of Concord. On Tuesday the R. O. T. C. men will camp near the Remount Station at Camp Devens, on Wednesday will return to Concord, and on Thursday to Boston. Full field equipment will be worn by all making the trip...
...teams of two riders each will participate in the obstacle race. Starting dressed in regular uniform, the men will race to a series of falls set up in the arena, scale these, jump into denims, climb out again and remount. Then, further on, they will dismount again, climb through some barrels and jump into the saddle again. Finally, after taking a jump they will race to a rack, where they will dismount and leave their overalls and then report to the judges' stand...