Ladies’ Steeplechase Aka Ladies’ Horse Race (1920-1929)

Ladies’ Steeplechase. Location of events unknown. Various scenes of women’s cross-country horse race in progress; horses galloping across the countryside & jumping hedges; etc. Men and women stand at entrance to tent with sign ’Weighing Room and Dressing Room’. Women jockeys come out carrying saddles. Also shots of women jockeys mounting horses; riding past crowd before start of race; etc. More footage of race. Shots of crowd at the event - a more relaxed; casual atmosphere than some of the large race meetings. Girl unsaddles horse while a man holds it. Sports. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin