Race horses

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  • LCSH. Previously Horse Racing--Race Horses Source: Visual Records database

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14 Archival description results for Race horses

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Carmincita ; Elliott family

The item consists of two reels of film footage.

  1. Carmincita [?] : Woman riding and jumping a horse, ca. 1955.
  2. Elliott family [?] : vacation film taken near or in Palm Springs, California, ca. 1959.

Gymkhana at the Victoria Driving Park, April 26, 1890

The file consists of one album of 19 photographs containing views of unidentified horses, jockeys, and spectators at a Victoria horseracing competition. There are no identifying captions on the photographs.

Below the title, the following is typed on the album front cover:
“Committee: Major DuPont, Mr. Justice Drake, J.C. Davies Esq., John Martin, Esq., M.G. Drummond, Esq, Dr. Duncan R.C.A., G.L.S. Warrender, Esq., R.N.; Hon. Secretary: L.H. Webber, Esq.; Judges: Mr. Justice Drake, the Hon. P. O’Reilly, Major Dupont; Starter: Lieut. Col. Hughes, R.C.A.; Clerk of the Course: The Hon. C.E. Pooley.

Conditions: Post entries will be accepted. The decision of the judges to be absolutely final. The “assembly” will be sounded by a bugler ten minutes before each race. All prizes to be sweepstakes, except in race No. 10 in which the prize will be $25.”

Pages are made of card, with a thin layer of paper adhered to only the front, punched with two holes, and tied (bound) with [blue or green] ribbon. Photographs have been cut into circles 7.5 cm in diameter and adhered to album pages with unknown adhesive. They have each been decoratively framed with five concentric circles hand drawn in blue ink. The final photograph has been adhered to the outside back cover.

[Sandown track]

News item. Some good footage of horses and riders on the track during warm-up periods.

The Hornby collection : A night for Ole Conkey

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "A Night for Ole Conkey" [00:29:00] by Otto Lowy is the story of a racehorse. The BC Archives holds another tape with this title, see T4303:0210. Part 2: "100 In The Shade" [00:23:40] by Daniel Wood. A feature on; the daily life of those over 100 years of age [T4303:0214], originally broadcast on 1981-02-21.