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Word: bridoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lepper | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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