Their loss was two killed and seventeen wounded.

The others only lost three or four slightly wounded.

It proves how lightly a highly-disciplined cavalry can come off where one would have said hardly any could survive.
As we retired the Boers kept following us up, though with great caution.
Riding along the valleys, dismounting, and creeping from kopje to kopje among the stones, a large body of them came up to Brooks Farm, and began firing at our sangars and outposts at ranges of 800 to 1,000 yards, the bullets coming very thick over our heads, even after we had reached the protection of the Gloucesters' walls and earthworks.

There our infantry opened fire, while two guns of the 13th Battery near the railway cutting, and two of the 69th on Observation Hill, threw shrapnel over the kopjes, and checked any further advance.
But the Boers still held their positions, pouring a tremendous fire into any of the cavalry who had still to pass within their range.

As to their number, their magazine rifles, firing five shots in rapid succession, makes any estimate difficult.