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The verses in Riding in Rhyme were written over a period of years while John Davies was head instructor/trainer at The Grange Farm Center in London, England, and The St. James Equestrian Facility in Chicago, Illinois. The verses are intended to be humorous and easily remembered, practical lessons, written basically for children, teenagers, and young adult students. They include actual lessons in horsemanship, stable management, and certain per...

March 30th, 1970 David Paul Ryder, a twenty-two-year-old post-polio victim from the Battersea, London, UK, set out to walk across the USA on elbow crutches from Santa Monica to New York, total distance of nearly 3, 000 miles, accompanied by three companions. The marathon was undertaken to bring attention to the medical profession and handicapped persons throughout the world, the benefits derived from horseback riding as a modern form of physio...

In 1936, three years before World War Two near London, England, a four-year-old boy suffered the loss of his father who died of coronary heart disease at the early age of forty-five. His mother, widowed with six children, whose meager income was derived only from dressmaking and alterations, could not afford to keep them all in the rented house. Consequently the four youngest were sent to an orphanage run by Methodist Clergy, over a hundred mi...