Word: horsemanship
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Francena Thomas, riding for the seniors, took top honors in three of the activities and brought her class first place in the meet. Miss Thomas won the experienced horsemanship class, the musical chairs class, and a bareback riding event...
Sophomore riders copped the runner up spot by placing first in the remaining two activities. Gloria Rosenbaum '51 took the intermediate horsemanship, while in a "break-the-ballon" game, Charlottes Coe '51 kept the balloon tied to her waist and intact the longest...
...profile, the middle-aged dictator looks undertrained and overstuffed. But his boasts about his physical strength, his horsemanship, his swimming, his farming, his pool shooting, his poker playing, his business ability are not altogether idle. When he plays cards, he never loses. "It's fantastic the luck I have. It's that way with anything I want to try-I'm the champ. I'm the champ shot of the Guardia National, didja know that? Pistol or rifle. Jeez, I never miss, it seems...
...Mexicans, who rode off with horsemanship honors at last summer's Olympics, jogged confidently into the arena at Madison Square Garden last week. Only two nations-France and Canada-bothered to compete against them* in the military events of the National Horse Show, the World Series of the horsy set. Shrugged one member of Canada's four-man team: "We just came to do the best we can. But the Mexicans, it is their whole life...
...City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...