NOTiCIAS Quartei^ly Magazine Of The Santa Barbara Historical Society V)l. XLVll.No, 2 Summer 2001 mmm i I K’ Horses and Horse Sports in Santa Barbara County igig--200i
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Carol Storke in this issue o/Nocicias lays out the evolution of Santa Ihirbara eLjuestrianisrn in the last Herself an avid horscu oman,she sought out her many Jelloxv eipiestrians to relate their memories ij'this period,asivell as delving into neivspaper accounts and other archives. Ihe residt is an account u'hich is lively and injonnative.
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author's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 1 am parcicularlv gratcliil to ciic late Harold Doulcon lor tire rich material in Iris autobiography, / l\emember, I term which I have borrowed liberally. Allen Rirss shared many memories v»'ich me, as did Si Jenkins and Kevin Snenv, all ol whom ha\’c been a part ol the history of the Earl Wirren Slnrwgrounds. My late father, Charles Storke, wher was active in the community and on California's 19th Agricultural District board duriirg the acquisition oi the Earl Warren site, was generous with his time and information. Ra\’ Yanez, w'ho showed locally-bred horses to many championships, had a number ot stories and insights to tell. Ralph I lughes was also a rich source of information. Kathleen Brewster and Michael Redmon at the Santa Barbara Historical Society guided me in my investigations through historical records. 'Muriel's daughter Clyde"shoidd Springread 1001 issue: page 23, photograph caption "Connie Barker.uife ofthe hotel’s assistantgeneral manager."pagegi, note "Kimberly Press"should read "A!c.\'ally D'l.ijton, Piddishers."
AUTHOR: Carol Storfe is aninth -genereition descendant ofJose I rancisco(Mega,first comandante ofthe l^iyal Presidio ofSanta Barbara. graeluate of Smith College,she pursued consecutive careers in aiminal justice, public administration, and business injonnation sy.stems. She returned to Santa Barbara in iggo and became a freelance journals. Cwrently she is curating a show for the Santa Barbara Ihust for I (istoric PreseiTation,tvhichfocuses on the unique Californio tradition of local sil versmiths in their crafting ofhits and spurs. She acquired herfirst pony at the age offive.
'rt' H(3Rses have been a ixirl ojSania Barbara's liLstoj-}' since itsJnundin^ in ijSz. Setders during die Spanish and lexican enis created a legacy oj superb horsemanship and, oj cour.sv, horses played a key role m die ranch mans prope>-ties. !he South Coast’sjascinationu'ilh the horse mounts are still a primat-y attraction at Santa Barbara’s largest annual civic celebration,()ld Spanish Days I'iesta. Ihe Santa'^nez Valley continues to bean important horse breeding area.
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7he Polo Class lines up at the igio Santa Barbara Ilorse Slurw on the grounds oftli^ Ambassador Ilotel. Polo has been a part ofthe South Coast sports scene since the iSgos. panding chc Palm Garden to 180 fccc for a larger show. Santa Barbarans participated enthusiastically and formed the Santa Bar bara Horse Show Association to continue the annual event. A list ot lifty-five founders appeared in the program. Dwight Murphy. Sam Kramer, Major Frederick W Lcadbetter, and Major Max C. Fleischmann were leading players. Kramer convinced Santa Barbara riding schools and livery stables into entering. Special classes were enticements. Each stable would enter a group ol four horses, to be judged together. Mrs. Miller Gantz of the H. G. Ranch in Bucllton was the most conspicuous exhibitor in western classes. In 1923. the Ladies’ Musical Chairs was a popular event, foreshadowing later gymkhanas at Pershing Park. By 1924. many entries were coming from the Griffith Park area in Burbank, which had become an equestrian community. at the hotel, due to reverses in his horserelated businesses. An English horseman who could drive a four-in-hand coach in style, he had been around horses since child hood. including four years of veterinary school. He had been chief trainer for C.K.G. Billings, who maintained a tamous trotting stable in Santa Barbara. The success of this horse show and ball led Kramer to a life time career as a horse show manager. Tlie first horse show was in a space 110 feet long. Plank benches were spaced around the Palm Garden. Tom Mason’s livery stables across the street from the hotel, at 307 Chapala Street, provided stall space. Coming soon alter World War I, military classes lor olticers and enlisted men had plenty of entries. Enlisted men also gave wrestling and boxing exhibitions during the performances. The next year. Kramer talked the ho tel into moving some ol the palms and ex-
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HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 35 Although the Ambassador Hotel burned on April 13, 1921, the Palm Garden show continued until 1924. After that, plans to subdivide the old hotel property made a new location imperative. Dwight Murphy, who had helped organize and had ridden in the shows Irom the beginning with his daughter Marjory, bought land at Bath and Yanonali streets. The Horse Show Asso ciation raised construction funds to build a showground, but on June 29. 1925. at 6:23 am of the day construction was to start, a great earthquake leveled Santa Barbara. The showground was never built. A year earlier, on August 13-16. 1924, the first Fiesta had taken place to celebrate the opening of the Lobero"n-ieatrc. Included in the events was a grand historic parade. Horses took center stage from the first, with Dwight Murphy in charge of the horsemanship section, Edward Borein re sponsible for mounting prominent civic leaders and descendants. andAdolfo Camarillo organizing riders to represent historic ligures. Parade marshals were Murphy. Camarillo, and Kramer. Kramer also played a part in The Beggar on HorsC' hack, chc play opening the new Lobero. On Thursday and Saturday afternoons of that first Fiesta, the promoters sched uled a "grand rodeo and field meet’’ billed as a "Wild Wild West Rodeo” featuring vaqueros from Santa Barbara and Ventura County ranches. A rodeo parade snaked through the town to Pershing Park, which at this time was little more than a vacant lot owned by the Southern California Edison Company bordered by Castillo Street and Cabrillo Boulevard and used for informal sports and recreation. Several hun dred seats were added to chc normal ca pacity of chc park. Frank Grccnough’s or chestra and Castro’s Spanish musicians en tertained chc crowd. The Fiesta committee Hatter class at the Ambassador Hotel, igzo. Sam Kramer, a centralfigure in the development of equestrian sports in Santa Barbara during the imxiem era is in the ivhite suit.
In July 1931. the Santa Barbara Na tional Horse Show was reborn under Kramer's leadership. The mid-summer dates avoided the rainy season, and the lighted arena allowed shows day and night. From 1933 through 1936, various charities benefited from the July horse shows. After 1933, memories of the Palm Gar den were invoked by fronds on the barn roofs and a palm-frond shade structure erected over the bleachers. Over the next several years, more stalls were added. From 1931 through the 1950s. many famous personalities would ride in FI
36NOTICIAS had paid the rodeo promoter a ilat $1,000 and worried about making it back, but the rodeo actually turned a profit. The Moming Press reported that Friday. August 15, 1924, on the "First Wild West Rodeo."
'Iherodeo,tkongk ratho'long-draiwi,satisfied the majority ojthe carefreejiesta croivd. There ivas onepainjid though notserious,accident. "Al”Stone and Alvin Pico, tivo ofthe cow'boy riders,spurring with spread Liriats in pursuit of a cow,came into head-on colli' Sion with a hall'hidden telcpiwnc guy-wu'e. Stone was sent plunging and whirlingfrom his saddle. Pico over'rode him before he, too, went crashing dozen. Ilandicapped by stringent humane regU' lation, Ejd{FainiofC Feutt and his men nev' ertheless staged three hours of buck'ridmg, [included saddle bronc and bareback buck ing horses) calfroping, bidl'dogging and bull-riding. In 1925, because of the earthquake, there was only a small Fiesta, but the Wild West show continued. On August 28,1926 and August 15, 1927, large afternoon ro deos were presented. In 1927, the City con cluded negotiations with Southern Califor nia Edison to buy the land and create an official Pershing Park. Tlic old Edison stor age barns at the northern end of the prop erty. where the baseball field is now. were used to store carriages and wagons used in El Desfile JTistorico.
Kramer’s horse show had been home less since the 1925 earthquake as ocher building projects cook precedence. In 1931, Major Lcadbecccr, an exhibitor at chat first Palm Garden show,donated to the City five acres of swampland at the foot of the Mesa, north of the City’s Pershing Park, where the tennis courts arc today. The Santa Bar bara Horse Show Association raised con struction funds, and one thousand truckloads of dirt were hauled in. The Lcadbecccr Arena, as it was popularly known, was Miss Iddh Ppss appears cool and elegant riding side saddle on hermount,Pal. 'Ihc Palm Qarden show continued on the Ambassador Hotel grounds,even afterthe hotelInirned down in tgii. covered with canbark and redwood bark, inexpensive byproducts of the tanning in dustry. County Supervisor Sam Stanwood constructed about six hundred stalls, lo cated at both ends of the arena. Cars, trucks, horses, and pedestrians competed for the open space between the arena, the barns and Castillo Street. The design cre ated a potential firccrap. with an exit at only one end of each stall row.
The State had supported fairs and ex positions since gold rush days as a means ol encouraging improvements in industry and agricultural quality. In 1880,six coun ties including Santa Barbara were combined in the Sixth Agricultural District, In 1887, Santa Barbara County became the 19ch District and in 1891, the northern portion ol the county was split off into a separate District. The state is currently divided into DcsfilcIlistorico and on Saturday compete at the one-day fiesta rodeo at Pershing Park. Will Rogers was one ol the most popular ligures. On Fiesta Thursday, looking like a rather down-ac-che-heels cowboyjust oil the range he would rope ecstatic children siccing on the curb along the parade route of Bl DesJUe. On Friday, he would join in La Cabalgata. a Iree-lorm event in which mounted horsemen rode up and down State Street, and showed oil to spectators. On Saturday, Rogers would head for Pershing Park CO hang out with two hundred other cowboys at the Competcncia dc Vaqueros, throwing his rope over steers, not children, crying his luck against the best local ranch ers and vaqueros, and later entertaining with some trick roping. Will Rogers was not the only Holly'Ihe ivesta-n donent iViis not neglected at the horse shmes. Here patticipants in the Ladies’ Cow Pony Class line tip in their regalia. -r
HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 37 wood cdcbricy. Buck Jones. Tim McCoy, Leo Carrillo, and Moncie Montana were regulars. Charles Scorke was very proud CO have invited Roy Rogers and Dale Evans to perform at Pershing Park in the early 1950s. He remembered them as the Hrsc western entertainers to wear rhinestones and flashy outfits chat would reflect the lights at niohe.o c*
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38 NOTlCiAS fifty-four agricultural districts, nonprofit corporations with boards of directors ap pointed by the Governor and overseen by the California Division of Fairs and Expo sitions in the Department of Food and Ag riculture. In 1933 pari-mutuel wagering was le galized. State fairs, which were centers of local horse racing, started receiving subsi dies from racing revenues and offering horse show prize money.Santa Barbara National entries suffered. The 19th District, taking in the region from Gaviota to the Rincon, had been inactive from 1902 to 1937 In 1937. led by Dwight Murphy, the Santa Barbara Horse Show Association ap proached the 19th District board, which agreed to sponsor the horse show and a con current flower show. This sponsorship made the show eligible for state support. In 1938 the District, energized by a new board, presented the first Santa Barbara National Fair and Horse Show in the Leadbetter Arena. Special emphasis was given to local horsemen and exhibitors. There were many draft classes, intended, according to the District, "to promote use of horses on the farm.’’ A flower show tent was placed in front of the arena and horse show attendees walked through the flow ers to their seats. The Santa Barbara Hor ticultural Society ran the flower show. For four years during World War II, and in 1947, the National was suspended. In 1949, the District contracted with the Santa Bar bara Horse Show Association to produce the show. Harold Doulton’s reminiscences, I Re member,are filled with Santa Barbara horse show history. He hired on as a member of Sam Kramer’s ring crew in 1946. He thus began a career of more than fifty years in the horse show world, becoming a success ful facilities manager and paddock stew ard for many horse shows and fairgrounds as well as for Rancheros Visitadorcs events. Doulton was a member of the family that owned the Miramar Hotel and a descen dant of the British china manufacturers. Doulton andjosiah C. "Si” Jenkins, native Santa Barbaran, horseman, and owner of jedlicka’s Saddlery, both stressed the im portant partnership among members and staff of Old Spanish Days, which oversees Santa Barbara’s annual Fiesta; the Ranche ros Visitadorcs, a fraternal men’s riding club; and the 19th District, to work as a team to put on shows in the 19v50s and 1960s. A number of local notables were in volved in the local horse scene. Sam Kramer was a founder of Rancheros,along with Dwight Murphy, cowboy artist Ed ward Borcin, and J. J. Mitchell. Horace Rupp started working for Kramer at Pershing Park in 1948, and served as ring master for many years. In 1951. he became manager of the National Fair and Horse It appears to be a dose callfor I^'clLindsay En~ glish atop his horse,Bomber. Englishivasaprojessional riderfrom Pasadena. Pie became ajudge jd■ Santa Barbara shmvs in the ig.^os.
Tony Ovieda was chc county sheriff’s "chaser” in charge of chc prisoners from the honor farm who cleaned stalls and laid chc palm f ronds on chc barn roofs and over the arena bleachers. The Santa Barbara National was a popular local event. Licci Paulding, society columnist lor chc Santa Barbara NewS' Press, noted in a "Town Chatter” column in July 1956. "The horse show is a great institution for chc children, and these next few days chc place will be filled with children’s parties in the grandstand and boxes, to watch the juniors as well as their elders perform.” 1 was one of those juniors, riding in the National twice as a teenager in chc 1950's. 'Ihe action isJiist andJurionsoyi Southern Calijoniia Edison’s jldd. 'Ihecity bought the site in igi~ and it became Pershing Parl{. Courtesy Marc t,mJ Donna iMaiimez.
Alter a few years as announcer, he became Sam Kramer’s assistant. Ross, not a call man himself, remembers Kramer as a tiny, cocky man with a delightful personality who always carried an elegant cane, Kramer was a fearless horseman and would wander on loot around the arena gate as horses thundered in and out. Kramer see a high standard for chc shows, insisting on sterling silver trophies,collecting dignitar ies as spectators, and introducing them proudly to chc audiences.
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Elmer Awl was also a leader in chc three organizations. Allen Ross, a well-known figure of chc Santa Barbara equestrian scene, became show announcer at Pershing Park on July 8.1948. As a traveling musician. Allen had learned chc arc ol showmanship and he put it CO good use in chc horse show world.
Doulton managed chc grounds crews and chc ring crew for chc National and chc Old Spanish Days shows from 1949 to 1966. Local moonlighters like Lcland Crawford, later a Santa Barbara attorney and Carl Newman,a retired police officer and sheriff, would work the ring jobs dur ing shows, Refugio "Cuco”Cardcnas brought grounds crews Irom Mexico for the horse show season at Pershing Park.
Bud Landrum started the Channel City Horse Show at the Alisal Ranch in the early 1950s. When it moved to Pershing in 1952, it became primarily a hunter/jumper show, which Frank Jordano ran until its demise in 1987. Proceeds supported the Rotary Club. as well as in the Old Spanish Days show and local Santa Barbara County Riding Club shows. Minors needed official work permits to ride in shows that had cash prizes. I remember those pink sheets we had to show to management in order to get our entry number. I was thrilled to be on my backyard horse in the midst of so many great horses and riders. I remember boxes and bleachers filled with paying spec tators, and the crowds of onlookers and hecklers stationed on the banks of Rubber neck Hill,just to the west of Pershing Park. The draft teams were one of the most exciting events. The sixteen-horse hitches had to be led into the arena before being hitched up, because the full team and wagon could not make the corner at the arena gate. In the 1950s, local horse activities bur geoned. The Alisal Ranch began sponsor ing an annual Santa Ynez Valley Horse Show. Katherine Peake, who was almost single-handedly providing the foundation stock for the area's quarter horse breeders. Participants in local shows were a lot more ready to risk their necks, or at least their arms and legs, in competition than most amateur vaqueros today. The Santa Barbara County Riding Club, now a hunter/jumper club, was in those days a
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Viciv ofPershing Parkjwm "R^xbbcnieck 1lill,"ig^j. Pershing Parkivas the center ofequesUian sports until the opening ofF.arl Warren Showgrounds in ig^^S. was a founder of this show. Jake Copass, cowboy poet and former head wrangler at Alisal, helped run the show until interest faded in the late seventies. Other members of the original Alisal horse show commit tee were Glenn Cornelius. Harvey McDonald (J. J. Mitchell's manager). Sig and Vi Hansen, C. E. Perkins and Emory Hutchinson. The Alisal was also the cen ter of the new sport of team penning in the late 1960s, which many say was in vented there.
The Santa Barbara NewsPress reported on August 7, 1949,"One pretty cowgirl got kicked in the head by a horse and sat on by a cowboy while trying to nab one of the barrels substituted for chairs. A crowd of five thousand watched this disaster. " IThr ftanlj Cartiarj j^.ilionjl SHOW ;nl> K.27.2a. 29.30. 31. Siigos 1.2.nH3 Vie cover of thefirst horse show program at Earl Warren wasgraced by the artwork of local artist Hughes, who won second Nicholas Eirfires. Santa Barbaran Ralph place that day. participated every month at the Riding CarolStarke astride a chestnut mare,EarIlorizpns,bred by DwightMurphy. %esaddle belonged to 'Thomas Starke,owner o/t/ic Santa Barbara News-Press,who often used it in Eiestaparades. Cour~ tesy Carol Starke. 4 t.
HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 41 rowdy group ready to have some wild fun on horseback. The Club, along with its sub group, the Santa Barbara Jun ior Riding Club consisting of young riders, held regular equestrian Held days Irom 1939 through the 1950s eluding the Semana Nautica show and schooling shows before the Cnmpetencid and the National shows. Tlx spectators had a real treat when Musical Chairs came up. Men and women would lope around the arena to music. In the center, barrels were lined up, one less than the incontestants. Wlxn the music stopped,the riders raced to the barrels, executed dramatic slid ing stops,leapt off their horses, and tried to sit on the barrels.
NOTICIAS42 TOPLEFr:A highlight ofthe Santa Barbara Alational llor$e Show was the pair jumping competition. 1 OP CENTER,: Santa Barbara National Horse Show offi cials, Pershing Parl{. Sam Kramer is atfar right. Allen R()ss is at centerwith darl{hat. R^)ss was Kramer's assistant for many years and became manager of Earl Wtirre?! Showgrounds in Cour tesy Allen R(>ss. RIQHT:'The Junior Rjding Club demonstrates calfroping at Pershing Parl{,early 19505. TOP - / LEFT:'[he ig<jZ horse show. Carol and Barbara Stork,e astride theirrespcctive mounts, Bamboo and /^cittcin, practice for Pairs Class. /lorses ivere bred on Rcinclw Juan y Lolita owned by J.J. Mitchell,one oj the founders of Rancheros Visitadores. Courtesy Carol Storhe. BOTIOM LEF'I: 'Ihe Mobil Oil Company shows ojj'its draft team ojsix teen horses at a Eiesta rodeo, Pershing Parl{. Courtesy Harold and Beverly Doulton. y.y. A
ABOVE LEFl: Qnvixry cries his tud{ivith this buck.ing bronco at the 1946 rodeo at Pershing Parl{. Tdote the other anvboys lined along the ivall to uatch. y\BOVE RIQIIT:Barbara Worth ofSacramento takes ajump at Earl Warren Slunegnninds. She rode in localshows jor over thirty years at both Pershing Park and Earl 1 Warren. RJQIIT:Francis "Duke'’Sedgwickobserves ■ T I as his scidptnre, "California C(nvboy on cJ California Cowpony," is moved into place at Earl Warren Shoivgrounds. LEFl:One ojAllen Etiss’specialties during his long tenure as manager of Earl Warren Showgrounds,ivas his anniuilthcmejorthejudges’pavilion. Courtesy Allen Ro.ss. S'—;
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44NOTICIAS Club gymkhanas. He had his crashes, coo, "One time 1 went for the same barrel as Sally Townsend and broke her ankle," he remembered, "buc ic was considered jusc the 'breaks’ of the game," Another popular game the Fiesta crowd enjoyed in chose days was the cowhide race. The rider would tic a rope on an old dried cowhide, A teammate on foot would jump on the hide, and cry to hang on as the horse ran to the end of the arena and back to the finish line. Many of us did not have horse trailers in chose days, I remember riding with my sister Barbie from Fairview Avenue in Goleta along Hollister Avenue and down side streets to Pershing, Ic was overly ex citing one day when some hoc-rodders on Hollister by-passed the muffler, revved the engine and blasted the horn at us. We sud denly found ourselves across a huge drain age ditch in some farmer’s field and could not get back the way we came. Si Jenkins would ride from the Sunset Stables on West Victoria Street to Pershing or all the way to Montecico to Manning Park or the Oak Grove scabies on Olive Mill Road for a gymkhana, Frank "Ketch" Keccham made his arena on Sheffield Drive and Ortega Ridge Road available to the Riding Club, As early as 1938, when the flower show was added, the Horse Show Association and the 19ch District had realized chat the space at Pershing Park was inadequate. The shows sold out every performance. The District was also considering the need for a racetrack and agricultural exhibit build ings. In lace 1947, the 19ch District had re quested a long-term lease from the City for expansion, buc City Parks and the Rec reation and Planning commissions all rec ommended against such a lease. By 1949, when the Santa Barbara Horse Show As sociation and the 19ch District began look ing for a larger sice, the Association had approximately $1.5 million in the bank, which ic promised the state for land pur chase in return for matching funds to build a new facility. Yet ic would be almost a de cade before the new showgrounds opened. In 1950, a sice at the corner of Las Positas Road and Calle Real, south of the former sice of the U.S. Army’s Hoff Gen eral Hospital complex, was selected as the next showground. The State, using funds Aerial view of the site ofEarl Warren Showgrounds before construction began. Courtesy Harold and Beverly Doulton. w ■ ■.; C.K,'V
HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 45 provided by chc Horse Show Association, paid $136,000 for the 136.5 acres owned and farmed by the Parks family. At the same time, the 174-acre parcel north of the Parks property used during the war by Hoff Hospital was designated for MacKenzie Park, the National Guard Ar mory,and a portion of the Municipal Golf Course, My lather, Charles Storke, negoti ated with the federal government in Wash ington to declare this land as surplus and transfer it to local and state governments. Neighbors opposed a horse facility be cause of the possibility of flies. Allen Ross remembered telling a City representative, "If they are green-bellied flies, they come from the local fanner’s market. If brown, from horses." Of course, they were green. Storke made a number of trips to the Santa Barbara City Council, pointing out that two dairies in the area were a much larger source ol Hies. To get City approval for the new showgrounds, the 19th District gave it eighty-two acres to add to the Mu nicipal Goll Course. The District also gave the City ten acres tor the Adams school, a move that guaranteed community sup port for the showgrounds. Allen Ross ad vised against the transfer of these ninetytwo acres, because he believed, correctly, that the remaining land would leave no room for future expansion of horse show facilities. In 1955. the 19th District received state authorization to plan and build the only fairground in California specifically de signed for horse and flower shows. Charles Storke. president of the 19th District in 1956, described the naming of the showgrounds."1 took Governor Earl War ren to the top of the hill overlooking the site. I told him.'This will be the new horse show facility, and we plan to name it after you.’ The Governor only said. 'That ra vine?'But when the City Council approved the deal, he agreed on the use of his name — the only facility in California he allowed to be honored in this way.” The ravine was filled in. and the "Earl Warren Park," soon re-named Earl Warren Showgrounds, was dedicated in July 1958. It had cost slightly under three million dollars. The flower exhibit building was built in 1959 and the administration building in 1961. Equestrian facilities now include a central domed arena, three perfonnance/warm-up arenas, and six hundred permanent stalls. A bronze statue stands imposingly at the main entrance to Earl Warren Showgrounds. The plaque reads, "Califor nia Cowboy on a California Cowpony symbolizing the vanished frontier and a vanishing type." The statue was dedicated in 1967 to Chief Justice and former gover nor Earl Warren. Erancis Sedgwick, artist, art collector, and rancher, was the sculptor. Robert Ingle Hoyt, who married into the Dc la Gucrra/Dibblee/Poctt family, owners of Rancho San Julian, de signed the pedestal. The model for the statue was Texas-born Lefty MePeeters who came here in 1936, loved the Fiesta and rodeos, and rode at Earl Warren many times. Duke”
At Dwight Murphy’s urging, in 1958 the Santa Barbara Horse Show Association relinquished to the District the rights to the National. At the National in July 1958, there were so many entries that horses were stabled at polo fields and ocher private barns. Town dignitaries filled the ringside boxes. Charles Storke and Dwight Murphy greeted the crowds with a history of the horse shows. The first two riders into the Dome arena on July 26, 1958 were Marga ret Rock Rupp and Edna'Vandever Brobsc, who had won first and second prize in the 1919 Palm Garden children’s pony class. The City immediately core down the horse facilities at Pershing Park,and in 1958
46NOTICIAS only. Individual Discricc dircccors also agreed to make up any loss. Fortunately, the first show,in 1961. made a huge profit, and continues to be prolitablc today. In 1969. the adult amateur divisionsjoined the Junior show, and became the National Amateur Show, rclcrred to locally as the "Turkey Show" because it takes place just before Thanksgiving. In the late 1970s, Ross and other horse show enthusiasts concluded chat Earl War ren Showgrounds was too small for the new' types of events and the rising number of entries. John Stegall, an Arizona and Santa Barbara developer who w'anced the Las Positas property for a hotel, proposed to construct a much larger horse show' lacility on the 160-acre Flcischmann polo prop erty he owned in Summcrland and to make a swap. It would have had twelve hundred stalls, lour outside arenas, and an enclosed spores arena for four thousand people. The county supervisors agreed in principle. The developer made a $25,000 model of the pro posed facility, and Ross obtained the sup port of Fairs and Expositions. Joanne Miller, a member of the District board in 1977. did not like the plan and leaked the story CO the Ncu^s-Press. Lois Sidenberg, the w'cll-known local environmental activ ist w'ho lived on Lambert Road next to the proposed site, led the opposition. The plan failed. In addition, attendance plummeted at both the horse and flower show's when the two were split in 1976. In the 1980s. Si Jenkins, a District Di rector and President, was one of those who successfully lobbied Governor George Deukmejian for passage of legislation per mitting satellite pari-mutuel w'agering on fairgrounds and allocating two percent of these revenues for fairground maintenance. Wa2crin£ began at Earl Warren in 1987 with income of over $500,000. increasing to over one million dollars in 1990. Since the Santa Barbara County Riding Club moved its larger shows to the Jack "Fat" Kenny stables w'hich had an arena w'ith cattle chutes behind the A and N Packing Company (later Freeman Packing) at Modoc and Las Positas roads. Small gymkhanas continued to take place in ocher local arenas. Sam Kramer had died in 1957, still horse show manager for the 19th Dis trict. Allen Ross, his assistant, became gen eral manager of Earl Warren Showgrounds in 1959 when Edward Van Clevc left alter a dispute W'ith the District. Already firmly established as a horse show' manager in California, Ross arranged w'ith the State that he could continue to manage other show's, including the Grand National at the Cow'Palace in San Francisco and the state fair in Sacramento. Attendance at the National continued to grow. Ross persuaded State’s Fairs and Expositions to add a pony barn and a dral t horse barn. The Santa Barbara National Horse and Flower Show' was know'n lor its draft teams,and glass panels w'ere placed on the tack rooms so people could see the magnificent team harnesses. Mrs. John Pritzlaff of ScaMair Farms in Montccico. a popular exhibitor at the Santa Barbara National Horse Show' from the 1960s through the 1990s, considered the National a premier event on the American sh(m'cir cuit and the best show on the West Coast for hackney ponies. SeaMair Farms always took over the pony barn at Earl Warren, and displayed the hackney pony harnesses for the public in the glass-sided tack room at the end. By 1960. the National Horse Show'was bursting at the seams. The State only allow'cd one '"fair” for each fairground. At Earl Warren, it w'as the National Horse Show that qualified for the state's racing subsidy. Ross asked the Kiwanis Club to underwrite a new show for young riders
Earl WarraiSluwgrounds,at left, ig g^. EiefairwaysoftheSanta Barbara Municipal QolfCourse may be seen to right. William B.Dewey photograph.
HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 47 chcn, there has been a steady decrease, as other gaming (options prolifcratcd. When Ross left Earl Warren Showgrounds in 1986 there was no one on staff to advocate for the horses. Appoin tees to the board became more political and often less connected to local agriculture. The horse shows became defacto orphans. In 1989. the District initiated a craft and livestock fair, the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo, and made it the Showgrounds’ofticial signature event qualifying for the rac ing subsidy instead ol the July horse show. The transition to a traditional lair allowed the District to add more civil service em ployees and raise the manager’s salary. In 1990, Earl Warren Hall was built as a pari mutuel facility, just as wagering patron age started lalling. The Showgrounds still receives some state funding for its fair, but the wagering percentage allocation has been rescinded. The hall was soon converted into a banquet facility. In 1993. the Santa Barbara Countybased Foundation of the American Show Horse took over the faltering National Horse Show and through 1999 produced the July National at its own expense, bring¬ ing back equestrian attendance and turn ing substantial proHts over to the District. Horse show producer Rae Deane Stone managed the Turkey Show as a contract employee of the District. In 2000, Stone managed both shows for the District. There have been other efforts by de velopers as well as equestrian enthusiasts to move the Showgrounds to another South Coast location on a land-swap basis, but in the traditional Santa Barbara style, there is always some strong opposing interest. In 1998. the 19th District commissioned a study to determine the "highest and best use” of the property. Emphasizing land development scenarios, the consultant, the Tynan Group,ignored the cultural and his torical importance ol equestrian events, as well as economic bend its to the commu nity. The District Board also failed to an ticipate the outcry from equestrians and their supporters, who effectively blocked development plans.
The Board’s decision to locate an in-line skating rink on the horse show portion ol the grounds rather than on other available space effectively limited the size of future shows, impacting potential profitability.
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On July 14, 1999, the Friends to Restore Earl Warren Showgrounds, a loosely or ganized group of concerned equestrians and community leaders, filed in Santa Barbara County Superior Court for a writ of man date against the 19th District Agricultural Association, claiming District violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) with respect to the process in which a lease was given to the Santa Bar bara Hockey Association. After nearly two years of litigation and appeals, the Court, without addressing the merits ot the Friends’ complaint, ruled that the Friends’ lawsuit was not filed before a six-month statue of limitations had expired.
Allen Ross speculated recently about changes in horse shows. He remembers that when he was managing the shows, there were many American Saddlebreds. The grande dame of the shows. Mrs. William Roth, used to come with thirty horses and ponies. She first showed here in 1920. Over the last two decades, the big Saddlebred breeders either went out of business or transferred into thoroughbred racing, which is now also going downhill. Stock horse classes have also faded as western equine athletes have become more special ized, going for the prize money of the rein ing, cutting and cow horse circuits. Grand prix jumping with its high cash prizes has taken over the hunter/jumper world. Grand prix classes are based on the fastest time on a prescribed course. Ross started the Grand Prix at Earl Warren Showgrounds in 1985, with a Mercedes Benz Grand Prix offering $25,000 in prize money, the only class on that Saturday night, performing to a full house. The Western night that same year only tilled twenty-five percent of the house. John Quirk commented in /lorsesAiagazinc that grand prix jumping is a "combat sport” that draws big crowds from the general sports audience. The Santa Maria fair horse show used to follow the National and many exhibi tors would enter both, raising attendance at both events. Now Santa Maria supports only junior horse shows for 4-H and Fu ture Farmers of America. Private Califor nia venues built on cheap desert land have drawn away former exhibitors who prefer to stay at one location and attend four or live shows in a row, all with prize money.
Current management has established a policy in which every type of activity must be self-supporting and large arbitrary per centages of overhead costs are assigned to the fair and the horse shows, making them seem financially unsound. Management is also restricting horse show entries except the District's two shows to two-thirds nor mal capacity, so that it can rent showground facilities for other events at the same time. The primary income for horse shows comes from stall rentals, rather than arena rentals, and thus non horse show income benefits at the expense of horse show income. In May 2001. the Fair and Exposition was split into three segments: the familyoriented livestock exposition in May, the flower show with the Santa Barbara Na tional in July, and the arts and crafts show in November with its items for holiday gift lists. Perhaps with this combination of events with different audiences, the horse shows will again become a magnet for spec tators. Like many Santa Barbara horse lovers. Si Jenkins looked back on Allen Ross ure nostalgically. "He ran the Showgrounds with an iron hand: we never had a finanten-
48NOTICIAS dal problem," said Jenkins. Ross himscll remembers that the philosophy of District directors was different in his day. The Dis trict always allocated a portion of other event revenues to support the horse shows.
The divide between the backyard horse owner and the owner and breeder of show horses has grown. Show horses and their riders tend to specialize in one type of event. Breed shows and specialized dres sage. or huntcr/jumper, reining or cow horse circuits prolilcratc. The horses that compete at the top levels may cost $30,000 to over $1,000,000. These athletes are no longer backyard pets or horses doing double duty on a farm or ranch. Local equestrian sports are alive and well today because the tradition of voluntcerism continues among backyard horse people, local ranchers and trainers, even without much community backing.
The Rancheros Visitadorcs continue to support local horse activities through their foundation Los Adobes de los Rancheros.
HORSES & HORSE SPORTS 49 Horse show programs were once a good source of advertising revenue. Programs from the early days contain a wonderful history of the people and horses who showed and their supporters in the com munity. 1 always bought my own program so 1 could mark my choices for ribbons and compare them with the judge's selections. Now at least forty percent of the entries arc made after the deadline for printing a program and many competitors ’scratch’ their horses just before or during the show. Kevin Snow,who has followed the his tory of horses at Earl Warren through his ownership ol Sasso Feeds from 1977 to 1995. pointed out that in the first half of the century, the people with prestige and status had a deep association with horses. They were men with land, money time, and the passion to engage in horse-related activities. The community power ol these leaders created the social cachet that made horse show balls and charity events pos sible. The many newcomers to the South Coast from the 1970s to the present have not brought with them values that rein force the area’s agricultural and equestrian traditions. Tlic basis of prestige has become monetary,and community leaders arc more and more alienated from equestrian altairs. Like most athletic disciplines, equestrian sports have become more sophisticated. In the early horse show years, many owners used their show and breeding stock lor tun as well as prolit. Ray Yanez. who worked tor Katherine Peake, would ride one of her famous quarter horse stallions to a show championship one day then load him on a barge for Catalina Island to join the Ranchcros Visitadorcs for a rodeo and hunt.
Kathryn Donovan of a well-known Santa Maria tamily, bought one of Peake’s horses, but had to wait for delivery until Yanez and his new bride rode Jay\^^ood in El Desjile Elistorico as the bride and groom in the Alfred Robinson and Ana Maria dc la Guerra wedding, portrayed in Richard Henry Dana’s memoirs. Two Years Bzforc the Mast.
Local voluntcerism survives in the Competenciade Vaqueros, which, although it has changed from a small one-day local show at Pershing Park to a major lour-day event at Earl Warren Showgrounds includ ing a professional rodeo, is still run by vol unteers and sponsored by Old Spanish Days.
The Santa Barbara County Riding Club is going strong as an all-volunteer associa tion. As the cowboys have retreated to the Santa Ynez Valley, the h'lty-ycar-c^ld club on the ocean side of the mountains has be¬ come the moving force in the hunter/ jumper world, giving local children and their parents a chance to compete at local schooling shows and at Earl Warren, It is a lar cry from its origins, when riding in structor Owen Cathcart would beg the group to include English riding classes. Now the Club no longer offers western classes. Pony Clubs on both sides of the
50NOTICIAS traditions arc important to all of us. Wc need a place like Earl Warren on the South Coast to celebrate these traditions and ex pose our young people to them. Many of our local organized sports venues today attract primarily boys—hockey, BMX, skateboarding, roller-blading. Girls need an opportunity to pursue their favorite sports as well. Amateur equestrian competition attracts lar^e numbers of girls and women. In 1999, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recognized collegiate horse show competitions as complying with Title IX requirements that the percentage of women athletes on campus must equal the percentage of women enrolled.
The lace of equestrian spores at Earl Warren Showgrounds is in the hands of the Governor’s political appointees to the District board. The current board has ex pressed support for continuing the horse show tradition and has begun to address capital requirements, but Santa Barbara’s need for housing and recreation will con tinue to threaten not only chat site’s unique historical purpose, but many of the lacilities that house Santa Barbara County’s horses. mountains, run by parents, feed into the Riding Club shows and the local dressage shows. The Calilornia Dressage Society has a Santa Barbara and a Santa Ynez chapter. Dressage is a relative newcomer to Santa Barbara equestrian circles, but it is grow ing by leaps and bounds. Tlicre arc monthly schooling events and clinics in the county, and in July 2000. dressage came to Earl Warren Showgrounds for the first time in local memory. Over the past decade, horse people in the Santa Ynez Valley have gathered steam to create the Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Association. Hard-working volunteers have built a simple Equestrian Center on Refugio Road, thanks to generous contri butions of equipment and time, on land donated by Frank Ketcham’s daughter, Jody Carsello, both of whom were long time horse breeders and trainers. Every weekend during the season there is a team penning, a horse show, or a clinic. Old Spanish Days has helped fund construction of the north arena, which in 2000 was des ignated the "Old Spanish Days Arena."
Santa Barbara’s cultural and agricultural Santa Barbara Horse Shows Time Line 1923, March 27-29—Fifth Palm Garden Horse Show 1924—Sixth and last Palm Garden Horse Show. Ambassador land scheduled lor develop ment. 1924, August 15—First Old Spanish Days in cludes Wild Wild West show at Pershing Park / Southern California Edison fields. 1924-1925—Dwight Murphy purchases land for showgrounds at Yanonali and Bath 1925, June 29. 6 am—Earthquake levels Santa Barbara the day new showgrounds con struction scheduled. Never built. 1925, August—Small Fiesta, small Wild Wild West show'at Pershing /Park Southern Cali fornia Edison fields due to earthquake. . 1926, August 28—Wild Wild West show at 1876—Wild Horse demonstration in Arlington Hotel lot. 1887—Santa Barbara one ot six counties in 6th Agricultural District. 1888—First board appointed for 19th Dis trict Agricultural Association, active to 1902. 1889—First jockey club in California lormcd in bar of old Arlington Hotel. 1919, May 2-3—First Palm Garden Horse Show' - Potter Hotel, renamed Belvedere 1920, April 21-23—Second Palm Garden Horse Show - Potter Hotel, renamed Ambassador 1921—Third Palm Garden Horse Show 1921. April 13—Ambassador Hotel burns 1922. March 30-April 1—Fourth Palm Garden Horse Show
1958—Santa Barbara Horse Show Association transfers rights to National Horse Show to 19th District.
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1931—Major Frederick W Leadbctter donates five acres of swampland against Mesa con tiguous to existing Pershing Park.
1947—Santa Barbara Fair and Horse Show can celled. 1947 late-19th District requests a long-term lease from the City for installation of a per manent horse show ring and other build ings. City Recreation, Park and Planning Commissions all recommend against such a lease.
1957—Samuel E. Kramer dies.
1990—Earl Warren Hall built for pari-mutuel betting. 1993-1999—Foundation of the American Show Horse contracts to run July National for 19th District. 1993-2000—Horse Show manager Rae Deane Stone manages National Amateur Show. 2000—Horse Show manager Rae Deane Stone manages National Show.
1958—Horse show arena and barns built. Stalls at Pershing Park demolished.
1933, circa—Palm frond shade structure added to Leadbettcr Arena bleachers.
1933—State fairs receive subsidy from horse racing, raise premiums for fair-sponsored horse show classes.
1937—Activist 19th District Agricultural As sociation board appointed by Governor.
1931. August—Old Spanish Days Rodeo moved to Leadbettcr Arena.
1942-1945—No Fair and Horse Show due to World War II
1931—Santa Barbara Horse Show Association formed to raise funds and build showgrounds. The Leadbettcr Arena is built. .
1945—First Santa Barbara County Riding Club (Junior Riding Club) Equestrian Field Day
1948—Santa Barbara Fair and Horse Show re sumes. 1949—Santa Barbara Horse Show Association operates National for 19th District. 1940s, late-Discussions with City agencies on expansion of horse show grounds fail, 1950, circa—Santa Barbara Horse Show Asso ciation contributes $1.5 million to State for purchase ot land at Las Positas for new fair ground. 1950—Parks family property purchased.
1927. August 15—Wild Wild West show at Pershing Park/Southern California Edison fields.
1987—Satellite racing begins at Showgrounds.
1958.July 26—First National Horse and Flower Show at Earl Warren Showgrounds. 1959—Flower exhibit building completed. 1959-1986—Allen Ross manages National and Junior horse shows.
1989—National downgraded and Santa Barbara Fair and Expo livestock and craft fair be comes signature event for 19th District eli gible for state subsidies.
1926'1927—City purchases Pershing Park fields, five acres from Southern California Edison Company for $34,650 for a city park.
1935-1936—National horse show becomes a charity event for the Santa Barbara Junior League.
1938—19th District takes responsibility for Na tional. A flower show is added and event becomes Santa Barbara Fair and Horse Show
1961—Administration building complete. 1961—Juniors split from National to separate date in Fall 1969—Amateurs split from National,combined with Juniors for National Amateur Horse Show in November. 1976—Flower show split from National Horse Show.
1933-1934—National horse show becomes a charity event for the forerunner organiza tion ol the Community Chest.
1931.July—First Santa Barbara National Horse Show at Leadbctter Arena.
2001—Santa Barbara Fair & Expo split into three parts, livestock show in May,flower show with National Horse Show in July, crafts show with National Amateur Horse Show in November.
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1946—Park Department takes over mainte nance ot Pershing Park 1946—Santa Barbara Fair and Horse Show re sumes.
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