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PROGRAM: THE CAVALRY SCHOOL HORSE SHOW AND RACE MEETING, Fort Riley, Kansas, May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1939

Original program publication for this event which took place at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1939.  Original illustrated yellow enamel-coated wrappers; 104 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings, plus15 foldout maps of race courses.  Square-bound.  Program printed on enamel-coated paper.

Overall condition: very good plus to near fine; some bowing of wrappers and very light soiling on spots of back wrapper, otherwise, fresh and clean. 

U.S. Military publication.Numerous photographic illustrations of horses and military riders, as well as race courses and horse racing.  Frontis-photograph: Major General John K. Herr, Chief of Cavalry, on “Star Witness, Grandson of “Man O’ War.”  Photographs by Fitzgibbon.  List of Officers of the Cavalry School Horse Show and Race Meeting.  President, Brigadier General Robert C. Richardson, Jr.  List of Trophy Donors and Judges.  Handicaps of Horses entered in Jumping Classes.  Post and Inter-Post Handicapping Rules.  Classifications.  Photograph of the Elliot Memorial Point to Point Race, Riverside Race Course.  Photograph: Jenny Camp, by Gorden Russell, with Filly Foal, by Fitzgibbon (Jenny Camp in 1936 Olympics).  List of Boxholders for Cavalry School Horse Show.  Catalogue of Horses.

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