Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan the National Horse Show was celebrated (see p. 36); in it, the most spectacular events were those in which Army officers from Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and the U. S. competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps...
...competition for the International Military Trophy 18 riders, three for each team, rode 18 horses around the ring. A last minute shift in the U. S. line-up caused 12-year-old Buckaroo, who had hitherto been the best jumper in the show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland...
...delivering refined gasoline to tankers at 8? a gallon. The Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against 192,000,000 meters exported in the record year 1913. These figures indisputably show that Dictator Stalin is rapidly putting Russia back on the map as a country of huge exports- but is there any kind of joker in this indicated trend...
...general, the National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...
...seven-year-old bay mare owned by Paul Moore, won every event in which she entered, taking nine prizes altogether. Jean Regan rode The Flirt over ten jumps without touching the top-bar on any one. Seventy thousand people, more than had ever done so before, attended the horse show; one of them was Senor Aime F. Tschiffely, who three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky; and the German Army team...