Sat Coffee Break 06-09

[Wilderness]

Since nobody is making guesses at these pics, I decided to test the waters for some things more interesting.

 I may have used two of these previously:

Break over. Back to the grind

[careless hal]

Hard to make a guess when you haven't the foggiest notion!

[Wilderness]

Hard to make a guess when you haven't the foggiest notion!

"Lady (2d left)"
Think Jesse Owens

 and gent 2d right?
Think Memorial Day

"Wife and husband"
Think Surgeon General's Warning!

"Horseman; well-known owner of Hambletonain winner"
Think TB, and another better-known horseman's son.

[AmyHollar]

I'm with Hal!  But I still love to look at them!!!! 

[Wilderness]

I'm with Hal!  But I still love to look at them!!!! 

 Amy,
         You should be ashamed

 I'm sure you read the "girlie' book about this horseman in your pre-teens or early early teens. It's an all-time favorite and still suggested reading for young ladies.

[AmyHollar]

Amy,
         You should be ashamed

 I'm sure you read the "girlie' book about this horseman in your pre-teens or early early teens. It's an all-time favorite and still suggested reading for young ladies.

Young ladies?  My mama didn't raise no..............well of course she did.......I just ignored her.

All I can think is Wilma Rudolph due to your Jesse Owen's clue.......and I'm sure I am in the wrong century and defiantly the wrong racial profile. It looks like they are wearing Russian garb?

[Wilderness]

Young ladies?  My mama didn't raise no..............well of course she did.......I just ignored her.

All I can think is Wilma Rudolph due to your Jesse Owen's clue.......and I'm sure I am in the wrong century and defiantly the wrong racial profile. It looks like they are wearing Russian garb?

 They are Amy.
The Russians invaded Springfield in 1938

[Wilderness]

mystE001 loc?
CaneGoodTimeStableLuncheon

from Aug 1939 Hoof Beats and taken during the 1938 Hambletonian at Good Time Park.
Is apparently on the property of today's Harness Racing Museum in Goshen.

mystE002 Lady (2d left) and gent 2d right?
E. J. Baker, lady, Greyhound, Sep Palin, gent and E. E. Irwin.
The mystery lady and gent were both champions and being photographed with a champion.

from Sep 1938 Hoof Beats and Springfield.

Champions at the Illinois State Fair: E. J. Baker, owner of Greyhound; Helen Stephens, Olympic Women's champion; S. P. Palin, with Greyhound; Floyd Roberts, winner 1938 Indianapolis Memorial Day automobile race; E. E. Irwin, General Manager of the Illinois State Fair.

Helen Stephens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Stephens
Images for Helen Stephens:
http://www.google.com/images?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&q=Helen%20Stephens&btnK=&sa=X&oi=image_result_group

Floyd Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Roberts
Video Floyd Roberts
http://www.google.com/search?q=Floyd+Roberts&hl=en&sa=G&prmd=imvnso&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&ei=FXjTT5WfLcrO2AWN7pXADw&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQqwQwAw
Images Floyd Roberts
http://www.google.com/images?q=Floyd%20Roberts&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&btnK=&sa=X&oi=image_result_group

mystE003 Farm Entrance?
Hanover Shoe Entrance
from Jan 1936 Hoof Beats.

mystE004 Wife and husband?
Mr and Mrs Robert Joshua Reynolds.
from Aug 1936 Hoof Beats

Edwards-Reynolds Group
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-22718421/edwards-and-reynolds-group

Blitz Reynolds was the first of four wives. She was an heiress in her own right prior to her marriage to RJ.
She retained his name after their divorce raising four sons.
She remained active with horses in the Winston-Salem area.
1961
http://www2.journalnow.com/ugc/snap/community-events/elizabeth-blitz-reynolds/1445/


Richard Joshua Reynolds
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6343/Reynolds-R-J-Jr.html

mystE005 Horseman?
Pony Dog(Young Gibson White)
from Jan 1936 Hoof Beats. Doesn't say how old he was here.

YOU probably do not recognize this youngster with his dog and pony. If you have ever been at the Lexington track, you no doubt will know the setting.
This year, this, now-young man, had two ponies at the races along the Grand Circuit. The name of one was Rosalind. She won the Junior division of the Kentucky Futurity and other stakes, and with a record of 2.03 was the champion two-year-old trotter of the 1935 season. Will Dickerson, who drove her to her record, says she will win the 1936 Hambletonian. The other pony was Jack Orr, 2, 2.041/4, a two-year-old pacer that won more money than any other of his gait, regardless of age, in 1935. The boy's name is Gibson White, and he is a son of Ben F. White, who had most of the top two-year-olds, out in 1935. Gibson was not able to be at the races much this
year, due to sickness, but his many friends will be glad to know that he now is in better health and expects to pilot the winner of the Hambletonian next August.

If "Gib" White rides in ahead in the famous trotting classic next summer it will provide the family with a slight edge on Hambletonian honors, as his father drove Mary Reynolds to victory therein in that famous contest of 1933. But it is safe to say that it would be a popular outcome, as the junior White is one of decided popularity in the training profession.
end of quote

The Hambo winner he owned was Rosalind, which his Dad (Ben White) gave to him in an attempt to provide fortitude in his battle with Tuberculosis.
"Born to Trot" was a fictional book based on facts. Written by Marguerite Henry is still good reading for young ladies.
 Last time I looked there had been at least six editions printed, with I believe the last being in Apr 1993 by Simon and Schuster (trivia; Your so Vain?).

[Just Saying]

I remember seeing a pic of Rosalind in a team hitch setting a world's record on the trot. Seem to remember that it might have been with Greyhound, and driven by Mrs. Frances Van Lennep.

Could easily be wrong.

[Wilderness]

Just,
        Frances Dodge-Johnson-Van Lennep "rode" Greyhound to a then world record under-saddle at Lexington in 1941.

 All the Greyhound-Rosalind-team trials were driven by Sep Palin.
 There were multiple Rosalind-Greyhound team trials, perhaps four or five.

 Greyhound did some quite interesting things in the way of records and potential records. During those times, plenty of top-aged trotters virtually lost their racing careers because there were not any races for them (at least with worthwhile purses).

 Greyhound lost nearly an entire year in two supposed match races with Muscletone (exported) that never materialized, and despite the expenses being paid for the Muscletone people to come stateside and see Greyhound race.

 Some horses had established records on the long Daytona Beach and Greyhound was schedule to make an attempt, however during the pre-trips it was determined that he could not handle the sand and was bogged down with slow times, thus the attempt was never made.