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Something I sent to Ms. Smithyman:

>Here is a picture of Frank Hopkins. I scanned

>it from the newsletter of the Green Mountain

>Horseman's Association circa 1940. It shows

>him as a young man. There was at least

>one other picture of him as an older man

>(short wirey fellow :-). If I recall correctly,

>he was judging the GMHA 100 mile ride. I also

>attach the article he wrote for them. I had

>posted it to Ridecamp last fall. Evidently

>he hooked up with the GMHA folks late in

>his life because they were putting on

>their 100 mile ride, and that was pretty

>much all that was left of the distance

>rides that had been his preoccupation.

>The American Morgan Horse Association in

>Shelburne, Vermont has a complete set of

>GMHA's magazines. (I only saw three,

>and two of them had Frank Hopkins in

>there somewhere.) It might be useful

>scanning them to try to find more info.

>"Oldie" horseman seem to know about Hidalgo and

>Hopkins as a matter of course, the way we

>know about Secretariat. It is only people

>born after WW II who have forgotten them.

If anybody wants to see the photo again,

it's still at:

Linda B. Merims

Massachusetts, USA