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5 The horse show’s jumping contests: “Society Aids at Piping Rock Club,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 1912.
6 known as “Locust Valley lockjaw”: William Safire, “Locust Valley Lockjaw,” New York Times Magazine, Jan. 18, 1987.
7 “her voice was full of money”: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925; reprint, New York: Scribner, 1999), p. 120.
8 Eleo Sears posed: “Piping Rock Horse Show,” photograph with caption, Chronicle of the Horse, Oct. 3, 1958.
9 Eleo Sears was one of: Peggy Miller Franck, Prides Crossing: The Unbridled Life and Impatient Times of Eleo Sears (Beverly, Mass.: Commonwealth Editions, 2009), provides excellent background to the life and times of Eleonora Sears.
10 Once, in the middle: “Miss Sears Turns Runaway, Swerves Animal from Bolting Among Spectators at Lawn Tennis Match,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 1911.
11 Miss Sears was so well known: “Miss Sears’ Skating Outfit; She Prefers Cap and Muff of Knitted Wool for Cold Days,” New York Times, Feb. 19, 1912.
12 She had popularized: Franck, Prides Crossing, pp. 145–46.
13 “Any professionals seen”: “Society Amateurs in the Saddle: Piping Rock Horse Show Attracts Hunting Set to Locust Valley Grounds,” New York Times, Oct. 4, 1913.
14 Her two horses: Bill Bryan, “U.S. Team Success,” Chronicle of the Horse, Aug. 15, 1958, p. 30.
15 In 1958, the press: “Steinkraus Wins at London Show,” New York Times, July 21, 1958.
16 On July 18, 1958: Bryan, “U.S. Team Success,” p. 30.
17 For both of these horse-and-rider: “National’s Diamond Jubilee,” Chronicle of the Horse, Sept. 12, 1958, p. 30.
18 Miss Sears was one: Bill Bryan, “History of the United States Equestrian Team,” Chronicle of the Horse, Oct. 31, 1958, pp. 15–18.
19 Transatlantic horse travel: “Fly Your Bloodstock,” advertisement, Chronicle of the Horse, Oct. 31, 1958.
20 Bred in the United: William Steinkraus, Great Horses of the United States Equestrian Team (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977), p. 53.
21 Steinkraus was an elegant: Alice Higgins, “Thinker on Horseback,” Sports Illustrated, Dec. 15, 1958.
22 The horse had already: Bryan, “U.S. Team Success,” p. 30.
23 The press had been impressed: Ibid.
24 At Piping Rock, it was: Kathleen Fallon phone interview.
25 Schooling jumps were set: Marie Debany phone interview.
26 All of the fences: Ibid.
27 Harry grinned again at the children: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 118.
28 Wendy Plumb, one of Harry’s pupils: Wendy Plumb Thomas, personal communication.
29 The crowd paused in silence: “Snow Man First in Jumping Event; Beats Diamant for Title in Piping Rock Horse Show,” New York Times, Sept. 15, 1958.
30 He was happy to answer: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 121.
31 But before it had actually: “Snow Man First in Jumping Event.”
Chapter 18: The Indoor Circuit
1 “Grab the mane!”: Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.
2 Johanna had started a scrapbook: Harriet de Leyer–Strumpf interview.
3 Harry let Bonnie: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview.
4 The show opened: “German Rider Clinches Laurels in Washington Show,” New York Times, Oct. 15, 1958, and Toni Brewer, “Washington International,” Chronicle of the Horse, Oct. 24, 1958.
5 But people hoping to see: Brewer, “Washington International.”
6 On October 15, the show’s: “German Rider Clinches Laurels.”
7 Next in line: Brewer, “Washington International.”
8 That night in front of the president: Alice Higgins, “Deutschland über Alles: At Brand-New Washington Show, Germans Collected Everything but the Tickets,” Sports Illustrated, Oct. 27, 1958.
9 The culminating event: Brewer, “Washington International.”
Chapter 19: The Diamond Jubilee
1 The National truly was: Sprague, The National Horse Show, p. 82.
2 Some of the big barns: Corry, “Showing Horses on a Shoestring.”
3 To the press and the public: Sprague, The National Horse Show, p. xvi.
4 Among the stodgy denizens: Ibid., pp. 28–33.
5 Until 1925: Ibid., p. 29.
6 Around the arena: Russell Edwards, “National Horse Show Here Has a 76-Year History of Strange and Wondrous Things,” New York Times, Nov. 1, 1959.
7 In