1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

Olympic Games of Stockholm, 1912 and was awarded to the winnerof the individual prize jumping.According to a ruling of the International Olympic Committeeat its meeting at Luxemburg in 1910, prizes at the Olympic Gamesmay consist only of medals and diplomas, though challenge prizes canalso be awarded. In order to obtain a large number of entries tothe Horse Riding Competitions in spite of the absence of moneyprizes, the Committee, from the very first, endeavoured to obtainchallenge prizes for all the competitions. The General Secretary, CountCl. von Rosen succeeded in doing so, during the course of the journeysundertaken on behalf of the Committee, and the result far surpassedthat body’s wildest hopes, no less than four monarchs each placing achallenge prize at its disposal, three of the gifts to be awarded atthe Horse Riding competitions. This fact probably contributed mostessentially to the large number of entries from abroad in these events,while it also set a grand and international stamp on the first Olympiadof the competitions in question.At the horse riding competitions the following prizes were awarded:Military: The German Emperor’s challenge prize, a magnificentsilver shield, on which was engraved the portrait of the Emperor;for Prize Riding: the Emperor of Austria’s prize, an equestrian statuette insilver (a copy of the statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna);and for Team Prize Jumping: the King of Italy’s prize, a silver-gilt"Victory” on a marble base.The Swedish Cavalry had also presented a challenge prize to beawarded to that nation whose representatives obtained the best totalresults in all the Horse Riding competitions. The prize consisted ofan equestrian statue of a Carolean soldier, modelled by BaronessAmen, née Sparre.Of these prizes, Captain Cariou, on Mignon, won that presented byCount Géza Andrássy. The other challenge prizes were all won bySweden, and the Committee for the Horse Riding Competitions hassucceeded in obtaining for them a worthy place of deposition, permissionhaving been obtained to place them in the Royal Armouryat the Northern Museum.ENTERTAINMENTS.In order to worthily welcome the foreign competitors, the Committeearranged a Reception Banquet at Hasselbacken on the 13 July,at which Prince Carl took the chair. There were also present H. R.H. the Crown Prince, Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Wilhelm andPrince Eugen of Sweden, the Grand Dukes Kyrill, Boris and Dmitriof Russia, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, 120 foreign officers andmembers of the Diplomatic Corps, and about 220 Swedes, amongstwhom were the members of the Swedish Olympic Committee. Duringthe banquet, H. R. H. Prince Carl, Hon. President of the Committee,proposed the health of the sovereigns or other Heads of the nationsrepresented and Colonel, Count E. Oxenstierna, proposed the healthof the guests from abroad in the following speech:580