More events to please audiences were added, including music from military bands, re-enactments, Musical Rides by the Cavalry and Musical Drives by the Artillery.
However, horses are still used in the Musical Ride as well as by several provincial and municipal police detachments.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (The Musical Ride)
The Musical Ride was featured on the Canadian fifty-dollar bill produced from 1969 to 1979.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Musical Ride giving us an inkling of what massed cavalry drill at speed would have been like.
Whatever else Mae got out of the conference, she never forgot seeing the RCMP and their famous Musical Ride.
The Musical Ride demonstrates the skills that were required by cavalry in times of war.
The fort was later reconstructed in the 1940s to breed horses for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Musical Ride.
Some of them only train for 18 weeks before performing their historic display, the Musical Ride, whose discipline and teamwork prepares them for operational duties.
The Musical Ride of the Mounted Regiments of the Household Cavalry was first performed at the Royal Tournament in 1882.