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June 5, 2012

The Chronicle Over The Decades: 1960s

Green hunters in the 1960s jumped imposing fences like this one. Bimbay and Celia Rumsey were the green working hunter champions at the 1960 Southampton Horse Show. Photo by Freudy Photo.

The Chronicle of the Horse has been a great help to us in so many ways, for so many years. We’ve learned many things from it, have been laughing tears with Raleigh Burroughs and crying tears with some of the poets, young and old. Your classifieds have helped sell some of our good hunters and we simply thank you for everything.

Sincerely,
Dinah and Jim McGowan
R.D. 1, Box 141
Califon, N.J.

And this letter, from May 24, 1968.

Phenylbutazone

Dear Sir:

I would never, never give Phenylbutazone to my horse in order to make him go sound in competition, but I’m surely going to stock it in our stable veterinary cabinet. My husband is careless and he has been stepped on while he helps me feed and water in the morning. I figure if I can shoot him full of Phenylbutazone fast enough, it will protect my ears from a lot of bad language and be of great help to him as he sprints for the train.

Read about the 1930s and 1940s.

Read about the 1950s.

Read about the 1970s.

Read about the 1980s.

Read about the 1990s.

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