Victoria Cross Race 1898

This scene on the Roodee was published on 2 July 1898. The text explains that the occasion was a military tournament which was always a popular event. There were displays of tent-pegging and ‘heads and posts’ where a rider gallops along and slices a melon or pumpkin with his sword. The scene shown here is the Victoria Cross race in which, ‘a number of mounted men set off under fire to rescue their wounded comrades (represented by dummies) and return carrying them on their saddles. The prize falls to the horseman who returns first with his wounded charge’. It is not explained how they simulated ‘under fire’.

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