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...couple first met during the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, when Phillips was a reserve member of the British equestrian team. They continued to bump into each other at other equestrian events. For a while, Anne, who won a European riding championship in 1971, appeared smitten with another dashing horseman, Richard Meade, who gallantly rose to Anne's defense last year when some blackguard suggested that her riding ability was overrated. Anne later cheered both Phillips and Meade as they won gold medals at the Olympic Games in Munich...
Died. Colonel Alois Podhajsky, 75, director of Vienna's Spanish Riding School (1939-65); of a stroke; in Vienna. Podhajsky was a retired Austrian Army officer and the holder of an Olympic equestrian medal when he became chief of the academy of classical horsemanship in 1939. The star attractions of his performing troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton...
...Ruski Boulevard, in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, looms one of the oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...HISTORY OF HORSE RACING by Roger Longrigg. 320 pages. Stein & Day. $22.50. The author briskly covers the circuit from the chariot contests of ancient Greece to modern-day trotting, flat racing and steeplechase events. Intensive history is interlaced with odd bits of equestrian esoterica, like the tale of the dancing horses of Sybaris who betrayed the Sybarites in battle in 510 B.C. by throwing their riders at the sound of the enemy's flutes. Here one can trace bloodlines, learn how jockeys developed their "monkey-on-a-stick" riding style, or simply be amused by the 30,000 deaths...
...Surely there has never been an Olympic Village like this one," says a member of the Dutch equestrian team. "Everyone I've talked to is happy. Happy, that is, until the action starts and the moment of truth comes. You must remember that come September 10 this place for the most part will be a village of losers...