Gymkhana games may be held either independently or in connection with private or country club shows, and I would suggest as a programme for such a combination the following events:

CLASSES
1.Ladies’ Single Harness Class.
Appointments (town or country)40 per cent
Horse60 per cent
2.Ladies’ Harness Pairs.
Appointments and counting the same.
3.Ladies’ Hunters.
(Ladies to ride.)
4.Sporting Tandems.
(Ladies to drive.)
5.Pairs of Hunters.
(Pairs made up of a gentleman and a lady, riding their own horses.)
6.Ladies’ Driving Competition.
Driving to count100 per cent
7.Ladies’ Saddle Horses.
Horses to count40 per cent
Riding40 per cent
Appointments20 per cent
GYMKHANA EVENTS
8.Egg and Spoon Race for Ladies.
9.Music Stall Ride.
10.Affinity Race.
11.Potato Race.
12.Drag Hunt Contest.

NOTES

Classes 3 and 5: Hunters to be shown over jumps, which may be merely post and rail, brush, in and out, or any combination of these, performance over jumps only to count.

Event No. 8: Starters will be handed a large wooden spoon and an egg. The spoon must be carried in one hand, with the egg in the bowl, twice around the course. Any one dropping the egg must return to the starting point for another, and whoever first completes the two rounds of the course with an unbroken egg held throughout in the spoon wins the race.

Event No. 9: There must be a fence or wall down the middle of the course. The stalls are made with poles, which are attached at one end to the fence and at the other end to stakes driven in the ground. At the start there should be one less stall than there

are contestants, and the length of the fence should be such that at the start there will be no fence lapping over. The stalls should be between three and four feet wide and all stalls on the same side of the fence.

The contestants start mounted; when the music plays they ride in single file around the fence in a ring until the music stops; the riders then dash for the stalls and the rider who is left over is out of the contest. Before the music starts again one stall is removed, and the performance is repeated until there are only two contestants left for one stall, and then whoever of these gets it wins the event. The horses may be ridden into the stalls backward, forward, or any way in which they can get in. In other words, it is the old game of “Going to Jerusalem.”

Event No. 10: The contestants are in pairs, a man and a woman, each with his pony. All the contestants start dismounted. At the starting signal the man first puts the woman up, then mounts himself; they join hands and dash madly down the field and race twice around the course, holding hands. The pair to reach the finish first win the race. If desired, jumps may be introduced.

Event No. 11: The contestants may be all men, all women, or both. The contestants start mounted at one end of the course, each of them having a spear; at the other end of the course are six or eight