plainfield

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Driving Horses, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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This was likely taken at the judging of the annual Horse Show of the Plainfield Riding and Driving Club at Plainfield, N.J. "Ladies to Drive" was a specific class of competition. – New York Times

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield_Riding_and_Driving_Club

Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, (1880-1925) Gloria Vanderbilt's father. Reggie Vanderbilt, as he was popularly known, was the youngest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and wife Alice. He attended Yale, but didn't graduate. Reggie went through most all of the millions of his father's inheritance from high living, automobile collecting, horses, gambling and drinking. All well documented in diaries and the press,and even later in a television docu-drama on Little Gloria, and the famous custody case of 1934. Reggie was founder or president of many equestrian organizations. NYTimes reported he died of throat infection, although popularly reported to have died from complications from liver failure from alcohol consumption, and lifestyle.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield,_New_Jersey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield_Riding_and_Driving_Club en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Claypoole_Vanderbilt

showing in hand - perhaps they already rode