And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sidesaddle. Very impressive. I greatly admire the stunt women of the '40s and '50s Westerns. They were a different breed, skilled and fearless. Barbara Stanwyck was such a woman. In the movie '40 Guns', on the day they were to shoot a scene where Miss Stanwyck gets drug by a horse, her stunt woman/double was ill, but that didn't stop her. She told the director "I'll do it". And by golly she did. When you look closely, it's her getting drug!
I have hunted fox from horseback (but not sidesaddle!) twice, in Ireland, with Willie Leahy (God rest his soul) and the Galway Blazers. It was exhilarating and the most enjoyable vacations I ever took.
My wife has had many horses since she was 12 years old ... (she's 73 now). For much of that time, she has done three-day eventing, jumping, dressage and fox hunted. Anyone who sits on the back of a horse in a tiny English saddle after they turn 50 (or maybe 60) is asking for trouble. Not that I'd even remotely think of saying that to my darling wife!!!
Side saddle! And the horse is looking at where it's going to land.
ReplyDeleteYes, sidesaddle in English saddle jumping downhill. That is one dazzling feat.
ReplyDeleteThat speaks of a well matched horse and rider.
Could also be a different use of the horn.
DeleteI want to see that landing.
ReplyDeleteSidesaddle. Very impressive.
ReplyDeleteI greatly admire the stunt women of the '40s and '50s Westerns. They were a different breed, skilled and fearless. Barbara Stanwyck was such a woman. In the movie '40 Guns', on the day they were to shoot a scene where Miss Stanwyck gets drug by a horse, her stunt woman/double was ill, but that didn't stop her. She told the director "I'll do it". And by golly she did. When you look closely, it's her getting drug!
What a woman. And a class act, to boot.
"The Sewing Circle"
DeleteBut most of the time it was a guy dressed as a woman.
DeleteGreat Escape!
ReplyDeleteI can hear my dad saying, "That's a good way to break your neck."
ReplyDeleteI have hunted fox from horseback (but not sidesaddle!) twice, in Ireland, with Willie Leahy (God rest his soul) and the Galway Blazers. It was exhilarating and the most enjoyable vacations I ever took.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has had many horses since she was 12 years old ... (she's 73 now). For much of that time, she has done three-day eventing, jumping, dressage and fox hunted. Anyone who sits on the back of a horse in a tiny English saddle after they turn 50 (or maybe 60) is asking for trouble. Not that I'd even remotely think of saying that to my darling wife!!!
ReplyDeleteThe late Queen Elizabeth rode side saddle well into her 90s.
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