LET 'ER BUCK 



jumps and vaultings off and on and about their horses. 

 One not satisfied with the others crawling around the 

 neck of their horses while on the run, proceeds to 

 crawl under the belly of his horse and come up the 

 other side without slackening its pace. 



SWING TO IT! 



But no less courageous and daring are the women 

 who ride. Whether it be cow-pony race, standing or 

 relay, when you get such an aggregation of riders in 

 the lists as Bertha Blancett, Mabel Strickland, Vera 

 Maginnis, Donna Card, Ella Lazinka, Katie Canutt 

 and Lorena Trickey and others, the last word has been 

 said in this style of racing. These women are skilled 

 in the lore of the race and the horse no less than the 

 men of the range. They not only put their horses to 

 the utmost, but ride with consummate knowledge dis- 

 played in every form of generalship in the race. Yet 

 some of these women in another week, perchance, will 

 be about their domestic duties in house or ranch. Re- 

 grettable incidents which happen occasionally go only 

 to show the kind of stuff of which these riders are 

 made. 



The relay for both men and women has been most 

 popular from inception here. At Pendleton was the 

 first contest which required the girls to change their 

 own saddles, but they did compromise a little by allow- 

 ing a "drop" stirrup, a heavy leather strap below the 

 stirrup to enable them to mount more easily, for the 

 relay takes a great amount of endurance. 



The first contest ever run here was between Ella 

 Lazinka and her sister. Ella brought in her own 

 string from her father's ranch and won the first silver 



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