Coventry Horsemans

Anyone have any information regarding Coventry Horsemans?;

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 09 May 1959 400 Riders Expected at Horseman's Civic Service PONY CLUB MEMBERS FOR MEMORIAL PARK GATHERING 'A SERVICE in the saddle" for horse and pony riders is expected to attract more than 400 of them to the War Memorial Park, Coventry, on Horseman's Civic Sunday tomorrow.

Thank you Helen. Brilliant and so quick. So they maybe another 399 of those out there somewhere.

There may be more as they did it on other years. Rest of the article - The service will be conducted by the reverend T Bland vicar of Styvechale, who is to give the address. His church choir will lead the singing, and the Coventry festival band will provide the music. Groups of riders from six local clubs will be seen making the way to the memorial park to join in the service, which will start at 11 AM. Rosettes. Clubs from Exhall and Bedworth coma Kenilworth, Walsgrave and Keresley will be represented, and the organisers are hoping many none club members will be present. The Lord Mayor, Alderman H H K Winslow who is taking a party, will present commemorative rosettes to the youngest member of each club. The route to the Memorial Park is to be signposted by the AA, Entrance will be by the entrance in Coat of Arms Bridge Rd, Which leads direct to the enclosures which have been prepared. The online version was too garbled to copy, so I tried the Windows voice to text to read the rest of the text in. Not bad, needed a few corrections and my commas kept turning out as coma.

It wasn't just Coventry either. There's a reference to events at Epsom being an annual affair.

I have others, Coventry & Keresley Horse and Pony Club, The Keresley Horse and Pony Club, Walsgrave Amateur Riding Club and more....

20A The Phoenix wasn't added to the city arms until 1959.