. Chicago Equestrian Association : Organized 1908. Horsemen and horsewomen -- Illinois Chicago; Horses; Horses -- Illinois Chicago. ated churn, and having all of the merits of a distinct aird engaging personality. The moods and humors of a horse are as various, as versatile, and as uncertain as are those of a woman. They are just as easily predicated, and this, of course, gives to one's equine comrade, all of the pleasure of the indefinite, and unknowable. Nor are we confined to the vagaries of but one horse. There are available for us all of these mul- tiplied by just as many different horses
. Chicago Equestrian Association : Organized 1908. Horsemen and horsewomen -- Illinois Chicago; Horses; Horses -- Illinois Chicago. ated churn, and having all of the merits of a distinct aird engaging personality. The moods and humors of a horse are as various, as versatile, and as uncertain as are those of a woman. They are just as easily predicated, and this, of course, gives to one's equine comrade, all of the pleasure of the indefinite, and unknowable. Nor are we confined to the vagaries of but one horse. There are available for us all of these mul- tiplied by just as many different horses as our inclinations may insight, and our check books aflford. Golf links are all very much alike. Every horse is just as different from every other horse, as one star differs from another. And usually the bonds between the horse and the rider is the closest, excepting only that between sweethearts, by which mortals are bound- If the poet in describing the affection of the Arab for his horse exagger- ated, when he said, "more than maiden, more than wife, more than gold, and next to life, Russian the robber loved his horse," he exaggerated only a little. And here we come upon one of the links in the chain by which men and women are so securely bound to their equine friend. For the horse is to its owner an object of real aflfection. Most people who own saddle horses love them, and their horses have a real personality that makes them objects of a genuine affection. Our horse is an object upon which we can pour out all of the pent-up emotions that arise in the human breast, and be sure of a just, even though dumb, appreciation and reciprocation. If our horses are frequently the objects of an almost idola- trous worship, we need never know that they are squan- dered upon an unrequited and ungrateful object. For we do know that, just as many people do really love their horses, so their horses do also love them. Even this is not the whole of the story. For horseback exercisi
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