Name Lida Bloodgood Role Author | Died 1982 | |
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Books The Saddle of Queens: The Story of the Side-saddle | ||
Lida Louise Fleitmann Bloodgood (1894-1982), was an author, and a horsewoman in both America and Europe.
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Biography
She was born as Lida Louise Fleitmann in 1894 to William Medlicott Fleitmann (1859-1929). On October 1, 1915 she received a double fracture of her right leg when her lightweight hunter, Cygnet, slipped and fell while they were competing at the Piping Rock Horse Show Association's thirteenth annual exhibition on the grounds of the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York.
In 1922 she married John Van Schaick Bloodgood. She died in 1982.
Archive
Her papers are archived at the National Sporting Library.
Publications
References
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