Horse Show Is Ready For Opening Tonight: Hill City to Benefit by Display of Over 100 Equine Bluebloods Entered in 67 Classes.

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Pittsburgh Courier Archives
The James S. Robinson, Jr. Project
Pittsburgh PA.
July 8, 2010

The below article appeared in the Pittsburgh SUN-TELEGRAPH on January 18, 1945. This article is part of the James S. Robinson, Jr. Project.

Horse Show Is Ready
For Opening Tonight
Hill City to benefit by Display of over 100
Equine Bluebloods Entered in 67 Classes.
There are horses and horses, Pittsburghers who have seen only the hoofed animals pulling a wagon load of scrap iron and waste paper will get a chance to see how horses earn their oats at the first Pittsburgh In-door winter show which opens tonight at 7: o'clock in Hunt Armory.
The show, which is for the benefit of Hill City, the juvenile municipality in the Hill District, will continue through Friday through Friday and Saturday with afternoon and evening performances on both those days.
More than 100 horses, entered in the 67 classes at the show, will compete for more than $3,000 in prize money. A large ring with a clay topping, has been constructed at the armory to ensure good footing for the horses.
One of the feature events will be a performance of the crack drill team of the Cleveland mounted police. Special events for children on Saturday afternoon will be showing of a six Shetland pony hitch owned by R.J. Cunningham of Zelienople and the performance of tricks by two Palominos owned and trained by Sam Linetsky of Pittsburgh.
The schedule is as follows :
Thursday at 7: p.m. , model novice, and amateur classes; Friday at 1: p.m.
, lady riders, light, middle, and heavy weight hunters; at 7 p.m., combination five-gait ed, triple-bar class jumpers, and pleasure classes; Saturday at 1: p.m., children's events; at 7 p.m., championship and stake events.
Blogger Black Buzz states that his dad James S. Robinson Jr. told Mayor Lawrence that seating for this historic event would not be racially segregated, and that all citizens will be able to sit wherever they choose.
Mayor Lawrence complied with this request by my dad and the Mayor made sure that that everyone under his umbrella followed his instructions on having non-discriminatory seating in the said Hunt Armory.
The great Heavyweight Champion of the world, the" Brown Bomber had five of his steeds enter the horse show competition and several of them won first place in their class, one of which was Little Beau, Stepping Fox, and Rider Eleger Harvey.
Prominent socialites, Mrs Theodore Roosevelt III of Louisville Kentucky, and Mrs. C. Snowdon of Sewickley participated as riders and owners in the first annual in-door horse show to be held in Pittsburgh solely for the benefit of Hill City.

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