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Mrs. Florence Evans Dibble is a friendly, blue-eyed member of a prominent Boston banking family who fell in love with horses 20 years ago when presented with one by her Cambridge physician. Endowed with independent means, she bought more horses, persuaded one-time wealthy Horseman Thomas Fay Walsh to...
This annoyed Mrs. Dibble. So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters. Mrs. Dibble discussed this with Trainer Walsh at her 18th-Century man sion near Newburyport, Mass., at her stables in Lenox, Mass., in...
Last week Mrs. Dibble was ready for the test. At 7 a. m. after breakfasting with her party at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she climbed to the Valiant's box, clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her...
Although Mayor LaGuardia had not granted it a police escort, the coach ignored traffic lights. At Fifth Avenue & 30th Street, site of the old Holland House whence Tobacconist Sorg started his run, Mrs. Dibble set a smart pace. The Valiant clattered through Manhattan traffic to South Ferry in 29 minutes...
Weed, expected that because of these innovations the show would make money for the first time in many years. The regular program of the National Horse Show was not seriously impaired by such novelties. Among the 36 events for saddle horses, 34 for harness horses. 17 for hunters, and 19...