The Hoboken Riding Club celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with public displays of horsemanship

The largely German-American Hoboken Riding Club celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with its annual horse riding display at the Hexamer and Walter Riding School in Hoboken.  A main attraction was an exhibition, reportedly for the first time in the United States, of "Jeu de Barre," a contest in which riders attempt to strip ribbons from their opponent's shoulders without losing their own. (By John Osborne)
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"Riding the "Jeu de Barre," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 21, 1866, p. 68.
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