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Funny Cide was a ridgling who was gelded and went on to become a champion race horse. A ridgling (also spelled ridgeling), [1] or rig, is a cryptorchid; [2] a male animal with one or both testicles undescended, [1] usually describing a ram, bull, or male horse, [3] but cryptorchidism also can be an issue in dogs and cats. [4]
Accounts originating in the 20th century, from the Ludington family, say Sybil played an important role after the British raid on Danbury, Connecticut. [1] [5] [10]According to the story printed 140 years after the alleged feat, [1] on April 26, 1777, then 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles (64 km) from her hometown in Fredericksburg, New York (near Danbury, Connecticut) through Putnam ...
Griffith died on August 15, 1998, at 56 years old. Dick preceded her in death on August 10, 1984. [3] When Griffith was trick riding at a rodeo, she had an accident. Her horse Winnie stumbled while she was moving from the horse's neck to another position. Winnie somersaulted, and Connie was crushed under her. [2]
The suicide race was created in 1935 by Claire Pentz, the publicity director of the Omak rodeo, in an effort to promote the rodeo. [2] The race is rooted in nineteenth century Native American endurance races, which were held in on the Colville Indian Reservation in a valley near Keller, which was flooded after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s.
Looking through the woman's belongings, the informant found various wigs, colorful clothes and a photograph of the woman riding a horse. Suspecting she was a spy, he considered contacting the authorities but was afraid to do so. Both the informant's story and the photograph were published in a subsequent issue of the newspaper. [31]
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, White died on September 20, 2019, at the age of 65, in Youngstown, Ohio. [12] "Cheryl was never a great self-promoter, and wasn't concerned with the politics of racing,” her brother, Raymond White Jr., said in a press release announcing her death. "She just did her thing. She didn't understand what she had accomplished.
Pages in category "Deaths by horse-riding accident in the United States" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Webster answered an ad placed by William "Doc" Carver in 1923 [2] for a diving girl and soon earned a place in circus history. Her job was to mount a running horse as it reached the top of a 40-foot (12 m) - sometimes 60-foot (18 m) - tower and sail down on its back as it plunged into an 11-foot (3.4 m) pool of water directly below.