Cobourg Horse Show

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Cobourg Horse Show 1905-1914; 1921-1923 In the earlier shows there were only 12 to 15 exhibitors but by 1911 no less than 35 large stables were represented with some 165 horses. The world record for the high jump was set in Cobourg in 1912 by Sifton's "Confidence", which cleared 7 feet 10 5/8 inches. This in itself was a notable advertisement for Cobourg Horse Show, which had come to be considered the best on the continent. The infant show of eight years earlier had grown notable, but soon the first Great War was to interrupt it. Although revived in 1921, the Horse Show suffered from the general mechanization of the times. The golden age of horses was past.

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c. 1905

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