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Sage advice from
Britain’s Churchill
ritish Prime Minister
Winston Churchill was -!■—rfond of all horse sports. He was an avid polo player, as well as an owner and rider in steeplechases, point-to-points and pleasure riding.
In a letter to a family member in November 1896, he proudly noted that his father’s racing colors - chocolate and pink - would “appear on Indian soil” (in the then-British colony of India) for the first time at a pony race meeting.
In a 1930 admonition Churchill advised parents:
“Don’t give your son money. As far as you can afford it give him horses. No one ever came to grief - except honorable grief — through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.
“Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses (betting on them), but
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