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PAT ON THE BACK

STEPHANIE BUTTGENBACH

When she was four, Stephanie began riding horses in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Today, at 17, after collecting 20 trophies and 60 ribbons for her riding skill, she is queen of the Horse Show Division of the Grand National Livestock Exposition to be held at the Cow Palace Nov. 2 to 11. Stephanie is a senior at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Convent, will go on to University of California Agricultural College to study merchandising and also further her interest in horses with classes in judging and training.

WILLIAM H. (BILLY) FRANTZ JR.

Flanked by his proud parents and with his fiancée (Patty Glennon of West Chester, Pa., whom he will marry next month) smiling at his left, 22-year-old Billy Frantz Jr. receives the International Gold Cup, emblematic of his victory in the feature of the 19th Rolling Rock Hunt racing meet at Ligonier, Pa. Billy rode Seregal, a 9-to-l long shot and overtook the leaders a bare three lengths from the finish. Mrs. Richard K. Mellon, wife of the Pittsburgh banker who built the International course, presents the cup.

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