WOMEN RIDERS' EVENT
MISS MACMILLAN FALLS
United Preu Association—B? Electric Alt* friph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 22. At the Royal Show today, JWlss Madge Keene, riding liomino, cleared a record height (7ft 4in) in the high jump event for women riders. Miss Vera Macmillan; riding Coal Dust in the-same event, had a nasty fall, and received a> severe shaking.
Last week Miss won the water jump, becoming the first woman in the history of the show to win an event of that nature. At the .1925 show she was; seripusly injured, when she crashed at one^ of the1 hurdles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 6
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