Lida Fleitmann Bloodgood

Lida Louise Fleitmann Bloodgood (1894-1982), was an author, and a horsewoman in both America and Europe.

She was born as Lida Louise Fleitmann in 1894 to William Medlicott Fleitmann (1859-1929). On October 1, 1915 she received a double fracture of her right leg when her lightweight hunter, Cygnet, slipped and fell while they were competing at the Piping Rock Horse Show Association's thirteenth annual exhibition on the grounds of the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York.

In 1922 she married John Van Schaick Bloodgood. She died in 1982.

Her papers are archived at the National Sporting Library.

• Comments on Hacks and Hunters (1921)
• The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present (1931)
• Hoofs in the Distance (1953)
• Saddle of Queens: History of Side Saddle (1959)