Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1904 — Women Riders. [ARTICLE]

Women Riders.

In 1852 the following challenge appeared in an English paper: "A member of one of the leading clubs in London and a master of foxhounds offers to back a young lady, from £2,000 to £6,000 (810,000 to 825,000) against any other lady In England, to ride from London to Birmingham, using two horses, to ride four miles over the NewI market course, to ride a four mile Steeplechase over Hertfordshire or to hunt the Hurtley foxhounds and to kill a fox with them." In the paper the following week the challenge wag accepted by Miss Mary Ashburton, g woman horse breaker.