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May 31, 1906
The Elbert County Tribune
Elbert, Elbert County, Colorado
What is this article about?
An article notes the shift in perception: women, once thought incapable of handling horses without ruining them, are now educated through observation and horse shows, making sex less relevant in horse management.
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WOMEN KNOW HOW TO DRIVE
Many Are Now Informed as to Handling of Horses and Can Be Trusted.
It is not many years ago that anything in the shape of a horse was supposed to be good enough for a woman, says Country Life in America. It was the popular idea among those who knew that given a good horse a woman could ruin it in less than a year. All this has changed among the intelligent women, however. Nowadays the women know how to handle a horse--that is those who use their brains and have watched the real horseman at his work. so this question of sex is not as important as it was at one time.
Of course there are thousands of women who know little or nothing about the horse, but with the great number of horse shows all over the country their education is progressing fast, and it will not be long before almost any horse with a reasonable disposition can be safely trusted to a woman and be driven or ridden without damage. At the same time there are ladies' and men's horses. not due to the fact that the animals will be handled by the different sexes, but because they require different characteristics according to the persons in charge of them.
Many Are Now Informed as to Handling of Horses and Can Be Trusted.
It is not many years ago that anything in the shape of a horse was supposed to be good enough for a woman, says Country Life in America. It was the popular idea among those who knew that given a good horse a woman could ruin it in less than a year. All this has changed among the intelligent women, however. Nowadays the women know how to handle a horse--that is those who use their brains and have watched the real horseman at his work. so this question of sex is not as important as it was at one time.
Of course there are thousands of women who know little or nothing about the horse, but with the great number of horse shows all over the country their education is progressing fast, and it will not be long before almost any horse with a reasonable disposition can be safely trusted to a woman and be driven or ridden without damage. At the same time there are ladies' and men's horses. not due to the fact that the animals will be handled by the different sexes, but because they require different characteristics according to the persons in charge of them.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Women Handling Horses
Horse Shows
Social Change
Driving Horses
Where did it happen?
All Over The Country
Story Details
Location
All Over The Country
Event Date
Not Many Years Ago
Story Details
Women have become knowledgeable in handling horses by observing experts and attending horse shows, changing past stereotypes that they ruined horses quickly; soon any reasonable horse can be trusted to them.