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Women Pioneers in Show, Race and Steeplechase
1) At the National Horse Show, Madison Square Garden, New York, the first women to show riding astride (not side-saddle) were Marion du Pont Scott (American Saddlebred class) and Canadian rider Elisabeth Coulthard (ladies' hunter) in what year?
2) Judy Johnson, who in 1923 at age 15 exercised her father's horses at Belmont race track, was one of the first two women to acquire a trainers' license in what state?
3) Margaret Cotter riding Rocksie won the open jumper championship at the National in what year?
4) The Professional Horseman's Trophy went to Betty Bosley Bird who bested forty-six men and Margaret Cotter in what year?
5) FEI (Federation Equestrian International) allowed women to compete in Olympic dressage in 1952 and in show jumping in what year?
6) Finally allowed to compete in Olympic grand prix jumping, Belgium rider Brigitte Schockaert and Great Britain's Pat Smythe rode in the Stockholm Olympic games 1956. Smythe won the team
7) No woman won a National Steeplechase Association sanctioned race before May 17, 1975. Barbara Kraeling won at Radnor, PA
8) In a ruling later over turned by state court, Maryland State Racing Commission denied Kathy Kushner (two time Olympic show jumper and 1965 Women's World Show Jumping Champion) her jockey's license because of her
9) Melanie Smith, Leslie Burr, Joe Fargi and Conrad Homfeld won the USET's first team gold in 1984. Where?
10) Blythe Miller became the first woman to win National Steeplechase Association rider championship in what year?
11) Julie Krone, the most successful female jockey of all time became the first woman inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame, posting 3,545 wins, 3,141 seconds and 2,808 thirds in an 18-year career that spanned 20,470 rides. Her purse earnings topped how many million dollars?
12) Sydney 2000 Olympic, US show jumping history was made when they selected an all woman team Which horse was purchased originally in Russia in exhange for some sewing machines?

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