In a ring at Utica, Mich. last week, Joe Louis put Bing Crosby through a few paces. Bing Crosby is a five-gaited saddle horse and Joe Louis was riding him in the highest-toned Negro horse show ever held in the U. S.
Negro horse shows are not new, particularly in the South. Most famed is the annual, two-day jamboree at Orange, Va., a few miles from the farm of Du Pont Heiress Mrs. Randolph Scott. Accompanied by fortune telling, dancing and sideshows, the horses (mostly nags borrowed from white employers) are a minor attraction, often...
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