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Title
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Royal Mess
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Description
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Article summarizes the current state of the American Royal and examines its and Kansas City's relationship with Kemper Arena. The author describes a visit to the 2014 United Professional Horsemen's Association National Championship, provides brief histories of the American Royal and Kemper Arena, and summarizes the controversies surrounding the arena's future.
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Date
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2014-12-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Unlikely Rider is Getting His Dues
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Description
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The Tom Bass Arena, "a $1.3 million equine warm-up facility at the [American Royal] complex in Kansas City's West Bottoms," is nearly complete. It is named after African American horseman Tom Bass who was a prominent American Royal figure during its early years. Bass was born in 1859, son of a wealthy Boone County, Mo., landowner and one of his slave girls. He was freed at the end of the Civil War. During his career he "performed before presidents and trained horses for celebrities such as Missouri Gov. C. H. Hardin and, later, Buffalo Bill Cody." In 1892 he put on Kansas City's first horse show, a benefit for the Fire Department. "Bass' last appearance at the American Royal was in 1928. He died in 1934."
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Date
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2008-09-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
