Lindsay Coleman Howard was an American sportsman. The son of the prominent businessman and
ThoroughbredThe Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
racehorseHorse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
owner, Charles S. Howard, Lindsay Howard began riding horses at a young age and by the early 1930s had developed into a top class
poloPolo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
player. He captained the San Mateo Hurricanes that played in the Pacific Coast Inter-circuit Cup Polo Championship against such teams as the Midwick Country Club, captained by
Neil McCarthyNeil Steere McCarthy was an American corporate and film industry lawyer, and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. A third-generation Los Angeles native, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in law...
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, the polo capital of the world, and they and friend
Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
decided to establish "Caballeriza Binglin Stock Farm" near
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where they purchased a number of locally bred horses and shipped them back to the United States.
In the latter part of the 1930s. Lindsay Howard became nationally known when he and Bing Crosby bought and raced horses together under the name
Binglin StableBinglin Stable in Moorpark, Ventura County, California was a stock farm established during the latter part of the 1930s to race and breed Thoroughbred horses. The stable was owned by entertainer Bing Crosby and close friend, Lindsay Howard...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/04/24/PENINSUL13181.dtl&hw=estate&sn=056&sc=344 at the same time as his father Charles Howard owned the superstar runner,
SeabiscuitSeabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...
. In 1939 Lindsay Howard took over as
trainerIn horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...
of the Binglin racing stable.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/400094971.html?dids=400094971:400094971&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+07%2C+1939&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Lin+Howard+Trains+Binglin+Horses&pqatl=google The Binglin Stable partnership came to an end in 1953 as a result of a liquidation of assets by Bing Crosby in order to raise the funds necessary to pay the federal and state inheritance taxes on his deceased wife's estate.
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In 1925, Lindsay Howard married Anita Zabala of
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, a descendant of one of California's first
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families. The couple had three children before divorcing in 1938. Howard served with the
United States ArmyThe United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
, rising to the rank of Captain. The divorce involved much bitterness and on December 13, 1943, Lindsay Howard faced a court martial for conduct unbecoming an officer.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B15F63E5C167B93C6A91789D95F478485F9 The charges were brought against him a result of his missed
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payments but in the military trial he was acquitted. Anita Howard remarried to
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. In 1940, Lindsay Howard married a second time to actress
Judith BarrettJudith Barrett , also known as Nancy Dover, was an American film actress of the late 1920s and through the 1930s, up until 1940....
with whom he had two children before their much publicized divorced in 1952.
Lindsay Howard died in 1971 at age sixty-seven at his home in
Moorpark, CaliforniaMoorpark is a city in Southern California. It was founded in 1900 by Robert Poindexter, presumably named after the moorpark apricots that grew in the area. The city has experienced a great amount of growth since the late 1970s...
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