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changes. Watching them are two other cowgirl 

 riders, Donna Card and Vera Maginnis. 



Bertha Blancett, the veteran at the relay game, has 

 entered six different years for this contest, winning 

 two first world's championships, in two seconds and 

 two-thirds. Ruth Parton has ridden away with two 

 championships and Mabel DeLong Strickland with 

 three, holding the second Round-Up record of 

 11.55 1-5 seconds, riding four horses two miles each 

 day for three days and changing horses and saddles. 

 Lorena Trickey holds the top-notch record in 11.40 4-5 

 seconds, also the best time — 3.52 — for one day's rac- 

 ing. Katie Canutt won in 1918 and holds third record, 

 while Donna Card's close second place for four consec- 

 utive years will be remembered in this event as well as 

 Ella Lazinka's game racing and that of Fanny Steele, 

 Vera Maginnis, Ollie Osborn, Miss Oughy and Jose- 

 phine Sherry. In these women is represented a resource- 

 ful self-reliance, yet they are intensely feminine withal. 



"Shake hands with Allen Drumheller, down from 

 Walla Walla." He's the peer of relay riders and an 

 all-round sportsman, and holds the Round-Up record 

 in the pony express race. He rides for the pure love 

 of the game. He is the son of George Drumheller, one 

 of the biggest wheat and cattle farmers in the North- 

 west, and not only owns a wonderful racing and relay 

 string of horses but rides them as well — so does his 

 sister Jessie. 



Come over here, and let me introduce you to some 

 other relay and pony express riders. 



"This is Scoop Martin," — he holds the relay record 

 for 12 minutes 7 seconds. 



"This is Darrel Cannon," — he first rode buckers at 

 the Round-Up when only fourteen and now is one of 



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