To the Editor;

 

I read with anguish your review of the National Horse Show at Lexington!

Those of us who showed at the original Madison Square Garden recall the atmosphere and grandiosity of everything about this Event !

We were part of that generation who witnessed all the Olympic riders and so many others before they became famous!

And those unusual jumper classes that you don’t see anymore!

Just parking your horse van right there on a side street and unloading horses then using an elevator was an experience!

Trying to school before your class in a very tight area and not run into a beam was another challenge!

Then there was the show itself with packed stands and thunderous applause, elegantly dressed presenters with huge impressionable trophies.

And for the evening classes such fashion and spectacular formal dress with so many spectators of note including President John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy!

I’m sure my memories leave so much out but we were kids back then having the time and rides of a lifetime no matter the ribbon!

Thank you old and gracious Madison Square Garden !

These current horse show execs are truly making a mockery of what used to be an almost sacred and dignified horse show!

Jeanne Sharpe