Identifier: loversofhorsebri00roseuoft (find matches)
Title: Lovers of the horse : brief sketches of men and women of the Dominion of Canada devoted to the noblest of animals. --
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Rose, Geo. Maclean (George Maclean), 1829-1898
Subjects: Fox hunting Horsemanship Horse racing Horses
Publisher: Toronto : Hunter, Rose Company
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e at this eventis an object of envy Id win a jirize at the lb)r-e Show i> to remain unsalisiied without a ie;ielilionof the experience, and it was no surj)rise to find this fair ri is also a graceful andaccomplished <lriver, single, double and tandem, and has scored more than one victoryin the Harn<ss Class. .\niong the younger set, Mrs. Young has no superior in the (;iialities which go tomake a successful horsiwoman, and her ambition in this field is not likcK to goliiirewarded, judging from her already remarkable acliievemiMiLs. f^^^^M^&m Lovers of the Horse 155
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BURTON HOLLAND AVERY o;oo(l record as a gentleman rider is that of Burton Holland. He is athoiough Canadian, and his father before him, Rolph Burton Holland. He^vas honi in roronto in 1874, being t-ducated at the Model Schot)l and Trinity College School, Port Hope. In the fall of 1S!)S he rode his first race on J. Straclian ,K)hnstons Roulette, atthe Country and Hunt Clubs meeting at the Woodbine, Toronto, finishing third in afield of eight in the Hunters Flat Handicap. His first victory was the following year,being his^Hrst steeplechase, riding Dumont in the Open Green Steeplechase at theWoodbine; also winning the Hunters Flat with Leading Lady at the Montreal HuntClubs races at the old Bel Air course. He was successful in wimiing on Red Pat andLapwing, both steeplechase, the same afternoon. Returning from South Africa thefollowing year, with the first contingent, he won with Murray Hendries Barley Sugarat the Woodbine. Since then the most important of his wins have been the HuntersF

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