Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy of the show-ring. Two years ago at the National she rode her Grey Knight to three blue ribbons in one day and wound up with the hunter championship...
Such sights, for three generations, have been the trimmings of opening night at the National Horse Show in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, biggest of the 300-odd shows held in the U. S. each year. But after 55 years, the National is definitely established as a major U. S. sport event. Though starchy socialites peered at one another from arena boxes last week, the galleries were packed with fans to whom the competition in the ring was more exciting than the competition in the boxes...
Because Irish, French and English military teams, old favorites with the fans, had a previous engagement this year (thus narrowing the international field to Mexican, Chilean, U. S. cavalrymen), the twelve principal civilian events for hunters and jumpers* received more than customary attention during the eight days of the show. Because 75% of the hunters and jumpers exhibited at U. S. horse shows nowadays are ridden by women, the spotlight focused on the jumping Jills...
Last week, after virtually deserting show rings for a year (while hobnobbing with Hollywood folk), Liz Whitney reappeared at Madison Square Garden. To the galleries' shouts of "Come on, Liz!" she rode four of her entries. But at week's end, no Whitney horse" had qualified for the championship final...
Proud was old J. P. Morgan, and prouder was his head gardener, James S. Kelly, when, at the swanky Nassau County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society fall show, 22 of the 25 Morgan entries won prizes...