Early female fancy rider

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Miss M.J. Forthingham
Sobriquet used by Erin Seifert

In 1869  the "Grand Velocipede Masquerade" was held at the Drill Hall Rink in Montreal to the tunes of the city's 69th Regiment Band and attracted between forty and fifty riders. Among the highlights was a one-mile race, demonstrations of "fancy riding" and an exhibition on two and three wheeled machines by Boston rider Miss M.J. Frothingham.