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Johnny Vardeman: At one time, it seemed nearly everybody owned a horse
Gloria Bloodworth Colter
Gloria Bloodworth Colter competes on her mount during a horse show at City Park in Gainesville. - photo by For The Times
Bill Crenshaw got to thinking recently about the days Gainesville was really a horse town. It wasn’t necessarily the popular horse shows that once were a highlight of the year, especially in the 1950s. Those events at City Park attracted people and their horses from all over the Southeast and were really fancy affairs.