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...ranch, learn cavalry maneuvers from Canadian ex-mounties and U.S. Cavalry officers. At civic celebrations they stage precision drills, trick riding, other stunts. They perform at San Francisco's annual East-West football game on New Year's Day, have appeared at State fairs, roundups, rodeos. Last week San Francisco's possemen were the feature attraction at the Pacific International Horse Show & Rodeo at Portland...
Portland's rodeo fans have witnessed many an unscheduled thriller in their arena but none to equal last week's performance of San Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist...
...Hollywood. Said bride's mother: "It's good to know that Lenore will settle down." Then the law tagged Jakie on two rubber-check charges. He skipped his date with the judge and forfeited $500 bail. Sally Rand said she was going to marry Thurkel Greenough, rodeo rider. His wife said that Sally would have to wait...
...Commerce with Army help got Private Bushface to town. It took a proclamation by the Mayor ("Private Krause Day") to do it. Lugging a key to the city with enormous modesty, Private Bushface toured the town with pretty girls, was honor guest at dinner, a dance and a rodeo. Toward midnight the garlands were dead and he prepared to depart. Said he to Chamber of Commerce Manager Paul Ord: "I might come again some time...
Nearest thing to an oldtime cavalry post is a Remount depot. There ex-cavalrymen who have a way with horses "gentle break" Army mounts in 120 days, without rodeo roughstuff. Veterinarians supervise horse conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready...