A NOTED JUMPER
ARMY MARE
(From "The Post's" NEW YORK, Ist May.
A noted performer ai the Brooklyn 'Horde Show last week was a 19-year-old mare, Nigra, one of the best jumpers in the. United §tales Army. An Irish-bred black, standing 16.1, she never fails to draw a round of applause as she pulls her capped hocks jver the barriers. Her career as an army horse began thirteen years ago when the United States was buying thousands of horses for war use. Overseas she was "gassed," but landed with the Army of Occupation in Germany, where the officers discovered they had a prize jumper. Since then she has taken part in the inter-Allied games and in the 1920, 1924, and 192S Olympics. She was on the team which toured' Germany, Poland, France, and Ireland, and in all she has travelled more than 50,000 miles.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 6
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144A NOTED JUMPER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 6
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