THE STEEPLECHASE RIDER & DAN FITZ EXPLAINS by BANJO PATTERSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Steeplechase Rider: Banjo Patterson, Australia's writer of the National Anthem "Waltzing Matilda" and a man who has a great respect for horses, provides a tragically humorous story of a steeplechase jockey.
Dan Fitzgerald Explains: Again, a horse story from journalist/writer Banjo Patterson explaining the way circus horses were used and treated around the turn of the 19th century in Australia and the continent.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:33.7 | This is your host, John Hagadorn. |
| 0:35.6 | And today, two great stories from one of our favorite writers, |
| 0:39.3 | Australian Banjo Patterson. Our first story concerning a steeplejace writer. |
| 0:45.0 | Of all the ways in which men get a living there's none so hard and so precarious |
| 0:52.0 | as that of steeplechase riding in Australia. |
| 0:55.2 | It is bad enough in England where steeplechases only take place in winter |
| 1:00.0 | when the ground is soft where the horses are properly schooled before being raced, |
| 1:04.5 | and where most of the obstacles will yield a little if struck, |
| 1:07.8 | and give the horse a chance to blunder over safely. |
| 1:10.8 | In Australia, the men have to go at racing speed on very hard ground over the most rigid and |
| 1:17.1 | uncompromising obstacles. |
| 1:19.7 | Iron bark rails clamped into solid posts with bands of iron. |
| 1:24.2 | No wonder they're always coming to grief and are always in and out of hospital in |
| 1:28.2 | splints and bandages. |
| 1:30.8 | Sometimes one reads that a horse has fallen and the writer has |
| 1:33.2 | quote escaped with a severe shaking end quote that shaking gentle reader would lay |
| 1:41.0 | you or me up for weeks with a doctor to look after us and a crowd of sympathetic |
| 1:44.9 | friends calling to know how our poor back was. But the steeplejayshire writer has to be out and |
| 1:50.3 | about again writing exercise every morning and schooling all sorts of |
| 1:55.3 | cantankerous brutes over the fences. These men take their lives in their hands |
| 2:00.0 | and look at grim death between their horse's ears every time they race or school. |
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