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Show Grant In the Saddle. Grant was at his best jn the saddle. The one real record that he made for himself at the academy, the one time that he excelled all his fellows, was at the final mounted exercises of his graduating grad-uating class, when, riding a famous horse named York, he was called upon to clear the leaping bar that the gruff old riding master had placed higher than a man's head. He dashed out from his place in the ranks, a smooth-faced, slender young fellow on' a powerful chestnut sorrel, and galloped down the opposite side of the hall, turned and went directly at the bar, the great horse increasing h!s pace as he neared it, and then, as if he and his rider were one, risin? and clearing it with a magnificent bound. The leap is still recorded at the academy as "Grant's upon York." St. Nicholas. |