This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MUNRO/MONROE, RITTER, BLOCHER, BOTTOMLEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IGB.2ACI/200.1 Message Board Post: I don't know about racing in MI but I have a picture from a postcard from Dec 1915 taken at an Ostrich Farm in Pasadena, CA with a sister of my grandfather sitting in a carriage pulled by an Ostrich. Ostriches must have been a fad in that era.