Side saddle

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The Dianas of the Chase Cup side saddle race, the only one of its kind in the World, Ingarsby Hall, Leicestershire, Sunday 29th November 2015. by Leicestershire Photographer Nico Morgan. All rights reserved.

Downton Abbey has revived an interest in riding aside – which is the correct term for riding Side Saddle. I ride (and compete and jump) aside. Yes, that is what I said: jump. Contrary to misguided belief riding side saddle – at least with a modern saddle – is safer than riding astride. By modern I mean from mid-Victorian. One of my saddles is marked by the makers as 'suppliers to the King' so this is either King Edward VII or VIII or George V or VI – the probability is George VI the present…

A lovely picture of OLS Flying Vision crossing the Kilkenny Hunt country in January (credit Siobhan English)

Area 16 Side Saddle on Instagram: “Costume Concours De'elegance 🎩 Janine Hards looking stunning on board Saxon 💃🏻🐎 #area16 #costumeclass #concoursdelegance #sidesaddle”

Although an "official" nursing service was not established until 1881, the corps traces its heritage to Florence Nightingale, who was instrumental in lobbying for the support of female military nurses. The Army Nursing Service, which had been established in 1881, and which from 1889 provided Sisters for all Army hospitals with at least 100 beds, had only a small number of nurses in its employ. In 1897, in an effort to have nurses available if needed for war, the service was supplemented by…