BRIGGS,
MARGARET JANE (MAGGIE)
Maggie Briggs was born at Otakeho,
John Dryburg
Mitchell, a noted Clydesdale breeder and sportsman of "Burnbank",
Eventually after two years of tuition, Maggie made her debut at the Egmont A & P Show, Hawera in 1902, when mounted on Czarina, she won eleven first prizes.� In addition, competing on another mount she took third place in the women�s jumping event.� Maggie was quickly dubbed the "Maid from Manaia".� For six years Maggie and Czarina were unbeatable, and when Maggie became too old for the children�s events, the pony was retired from the ring with more than 100 first prizes to her credit.
For Maggie�s twelfth birthday she was given
another horse, Rawhiti, by Gus Sole of Bell Block. On this horse, Maggie began
beating the finest women riders in
Maggie returned to
* Some sources say she was born at Otahuhu (
SOURCES
The Book of
Legends in their
Lifetime by Wally Ingram
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