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Bertalan de Nemethy

Age: 90

Hungarian-born riding instructor, who coached the U.S. Equestrian show jumping team from 1955-80; won Olympic silver medals in 1960 and 1972; his book “The de Nemethy Method”and the instructional videos that followed became standards for training world-class, show-jumping horses and riders; charter member of the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in Tampa. He died of pneumonia.

Died: Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 16

Dorothy DeLay

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