A WILD SWING AND TEAR THROUGH A 

 SMOTHER OF DUST 



Swiftly Followed by the Indians in 



A MAD-CAP RIDE, EVERYBODY FOR HIMSELF. 



Then the Relay 



SWIFT AND RECKLESS AT THE TURNS 



The maverick race "through a smother of dust" is one of the 

 most picturesque and characteristic events. Twenty to thirty 

 cowboys in a turmoil of ropes, hoofs, horns and dust take after 

 the most "outrunningess" kind of a steer. The first rope over 

 the horns wins. 



The bewildering, quick changes of the relay and pony express 

 are indescribable. Both closely akin, are a survival of the old 

 dare-devil riding of the cowboy mail-carriers through the coun- 

 try of hostile Indians. In both races, each rider has two 

 assistants, one to hold and one to catch, saddles to weigh not 

 less than twenty-five pounds, any cinch allowed, same horses to 

 be used each day barring accidents, each race a three-day con- 

 test, best total time winning. In the cowboy's relay champion- 

 ship, the rider has four horses. He must saddle, unsaddle, mount, 

 and dismount unassisted, ride two miles each day and change 

 horses each half mile. On the first day, riders draw for place in 

 paddock, afterwards they take them in the order in which they 

 finish. 



Two timers are assigned to each horse in both pony express 

 and relay, as one relay between George Drumheller's and Fay 

 LeGrow's strings ran so close that at the end of the three days' 

 racing there was but 1-5 of a second between them. LeGrow's 

 string ridden by E. A. Armstrong winning in 12 minutes 56 1-5 

 seconds. The Round-Up relay record of 12 minutes 7 seconds 

 was made by Scoop Martin on a Drumheller string in 1911, 

 also the best single day record of 4 minutes 1 second. Darrell 

 Cannon holds second record of 12 minutes 21 1-5 seconds made 

 in 1920. 



Watch Allen Drumheller on Lillian Ray as with hat gone, he 

 races apparently "swift and reckless at the turns." See his style, 

 far forward, low and close on his horse, riding with him, prob- 

 ably sitting thirty pounds lighter than either of the other men. 



The most important thing in the relay is horsemanship in 

 arriving at stations. Drumheller after dismounting takes one 

 step to grab cinch to unhook, one step ahead to throw on saddle 

 to waiting horse, and one grab in hooking up, then on and away. 

 A steady head may win a relay or pony express race for it's a 

 long one and many things may happen. 



Allen Drumheller's record makes him the most remarkable 

 all-round racing rider who has ever run at Pendleton. He has 

 ridden into two world's relay championships and one second in 

 the three consecutive years he raced, with Sleepy Armstrong a 

 close second. Allen not only holds third record in the cow- 

 pony race, but first in the pony express, time 6 minutes 18 1-5 

 seconds; also best time one day 2 minutes 5 seconds. In 1915 he 

 took first in all three, relay, pony express and cow-pony. 



Jessie Drumheller, petite and the very essence of refined fem- 

 inity, is a splendid counterpart of her brother, a superb relay 

 rider and holder of the 1918 girl's cow-pony championship and 

 also the record time of 54 seconds on the Pendleton track. 



