Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, November 15, 1962, page 38 (of 64)
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WAKE UP YOUR DRINKS with the sunny morning flavor of Schenley RESERVE
Schenley Sour Schenley Old Fashioned Tall or short, it's a better drink with Schenley... because Schenley's grain neutral spirits are blended with straight whiskys 8 years old! • Schenley Old Fashioned - muddle 3 dashes bitters, sugar, water. Add ice, 11⁄2 oz. Schenley, cherry, lemon, orange slices. • Schenley Sour - mix tsp. sugar in 3⁄4 oz. lemon juice. Add 11⁄2 oz. Schenley, cracked ice. Shake. Serve with orange slice, cherry. BLENDED WHISKY, 86 PROOF, 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. © 1962 SCHENLEY DIST. CO., N.Y.C.
So You Want a Horse!
EVERY Saturday morning 14-year-old Babs Benson, her younger sisters Linda and Diane, and 18 of their friends gather at the Benson home in suburban Atlanta for a meeting of the Sandy Springs Pony Club. After talking for a while about the proper care of their horses and equipment, the 21 girls go for a trail ride. Sometimes they'll go on an all-day picnic trip to the Chattahoochee River, nine miles away. When they're hungry, the pony club riders stop at a Sandy Springs soda shop. Tying their horses is no problem; Sandy Springs has so many riders these days many stores have built old-fashioned hitching posts in front. The Bensons, who bought their first horse five years ago and now have four, are one of the growing numbers of suburban families who keep horses in a back-yard barn or a converted garage. Thirty years ago, only a relatively few people could afford the costs of maintaining a stable, grooms, and horses. But since World War II, many thousands of suburbanites have discovered that a back-yard acre or two is plenty of room for a horse, and a garage makes a fine stable. As for grooms-well, in this do-ityourself age, everyone's a groom. One equine expert, Dr. M. E. Ensminger, chairman of the department of animal science at Washington State University in Pullman, estimates that about 288,000 suburban families own 433,000 horses, an average of 1.5 horses per family. Dr. Ensminger figures the number of pleasure horses in the U.S. is now about 1,300,000-300,000 more than 10 years ago. The boom in riding is bringing joy to saddle and bridle salesmen, too. Miller Harness Co., Inc., of New York, one of the largest such tack stores, says its sales last year were double those of three years ago. The first consideration in buying your own horse is to decide what you'll want to do with the horse and what you can afford to spend. "Buying a horse is like buying a car," says one suburban horse lover. "You've got to be careful." Adds Mrs. Warren Benson, Babs' mother, "Be sure to buy from reputable dealer. He should let you take the horse home for a week to see if he likes you and you like him. If the dealer won't let you try the horse out for a few days, don't buy him. And never buy your first horse at an auction. You may think you'll get him cheaper, but once you've bought him you can't take hi back," she explains. HORSES are classified by breeds, as dogs are, depending on size, color, and other factors. Owners of most purebred horses have formed associations to keep a registry of all horses of their breed, sponsor shows and auctions, a publish information about the breed. But some horses' breeding isn't known, of course. If you want a horse just for pleasant trail riding, you'll probably find that nearly any comfortable and peaceable steed of unknown ancestry will be fine. "I find that people in the East generally like any kind of rangy b quiet horse," declares R. A. Phillips, an Ocala, Florida, horse breeder. You can buy such a horse, which may be perfect for your needs, for between $150 and $250. In the West, horses of registered and known breeding are more popular, Mr. Phillips says. If you hope to do some jumping or foxhunti or polo playing, or if you plan to enter your horse in shows, you'll want one whose breeding is reg-