The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-22
HORSE AND CATTLE SHOWS.
National Exhibition At Springfield.
SECOND DAY AMONG THE HORSES AND HORSE MEN
GREAT CRowD-sCARCITY OF PROVISIONS, ETC.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.


SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 20-P NJ.
The sun Is going down upon the second day Of the
Great Horse Exhibition" at Springfield If it is not
great exhibition of horses it has called together great
exhibition of men and women, though cannot say much
for the beauty Of the latter cordering their number
s crowd has been very great dsy the dust very
th:k the horses very fast the drivers highly
excited the consumption of gingerbread has bec
nous; the hotels have been exhausted II provisions and
as the ksepers of the Warmer House informed your
respondent oday that they could give him dinner it
will be necessary for the HMD Office to serd to be-
ket Of animal food at A Mr. Wright attempted to
feed the crowd under large tent and for fifty cents you
might get tough beef pleasantly varying between
aud cold weak co.e bul.st potatoes, an.p with
crust Ia sole leather Aoonstat cloud of dust ,bscured
the view of the spectators upon the ground Whom they
wanted thing 70 clear away the aluvia deposits from
their bronchial ORGANS they soud ~ turpentine g, and
water to be drank out of greasy rambler, and uader
the painful influence of baif q dozen elbows in
one's ribs, or half DOZEN pairs of cowhde
boots treading upon ones toes. really can't sse
where the people who have here to night will Sleep
There 20 every two beds in the city last
night and that average must bo increased The
trains running here both from the ner and SOUTH the
east and the west have been doublcd and the very air
generally pure and freshsmels of he stable and is
disorder, and Gghtirg presume thet the liquor
excessively bad that the people could not drink
enough TO get drunk without cauerisng their throat
Innings
The attendance has been great and $s $50 has been
taken foe tickets to day
Ex-Governor Floyd, Of Virginia. Governor Seymour, of
New York. and Governor Clifford OF Massachusetts,, are
here. Bolts, Of Virginia, is also here.
AT nine O'Clock this morning the matched horses
exhibited, TO the number Of thirty three psrs They
generally very respectable though struck my
attention as being particularly fne The horses were
good enough, but the matches we're not.
Then the coils exhibited. They chiefly
Black Hawks and Morgans-under sized and small boned
The blood has not improved since Justin Morgan, Of
to breed these celebrated horses We trust
that something will be done to improve the blood which
deterorating rather than improving. This is i'm
portan than the making out OF stud books turf regis
ters There we're thirty two colts exhibited
Fancy matched horses @ We were % now G exhsited-Mteen
blacks, which excited good deal of attention, The
fancy horses looked ne and the vast crowd highly
After dinner the stations from four to years old,
to the number of thirty three exhibited, ans also
one hundred and eight gelc ings.
During the whole afternoon the enclosure alive
with exctement-the filled with fast trotters,
the completely covered with four thousand
spectators including many women and in the area were
6ashng thoroughbreds matched pairs and saddle horses
mixed with groups of amateurs who gathered about their
ayorte horses and earnedy upon points
There was accident of any account One horse
away, but he seized quickly and before he had done
any harm.
is impossible to describe the unique and interesting scene
had never thought the noble animal had so many
friends Such enthusiastic crowd and very dry,
too never saw in all my life.
Among the breeding mares admired Lady May ily an
English thoi oughbIei owned BY Lieut.. r NJ kiebe, OF
the Boston Light Dragons, and ridden by him as
rade horse She Is eight old bright bay anda very
fine annv indeed. She attracted great deal atten
ton admiration. Also Messenger mare, Julia, hf
teen hands, weight ,0c0 lbs, and owned by Mr. DE Wolf
of Bristol She is Maine horse, and of fine stock. Mr.
Perkins of Beckett had line Duroc Messenger mare
pd Mr. Sha,rnAus Jenny Lind. (plAck Hawk) from
Vermont al admired. William Beardsley OF Albany
exhibits Lady Hunt Tippoo stock, wsight 900 ibs
161s LANDS high, rared in Camden. D. h. Hangerford,
New York, exhibits DOLL Nearly all the rest YER
mont horses and from Vermont stock, owned in Massa
chusetts.
Among the stations there several like the virtuous
Marcia who "tower above their SEX" There are two
splencid fellows from Canada. One of them Is Clyde
Brton and his sire is also about Tie celebrated Cassus
N. Clay from New York. attracts much att, ntoD He Is
here under the charge of Mr. Curry Of New York The
celebrated Bush Messenger is here, with of his colts
Mr. Hall of Manchester, N. H. has fine stallion of t
Sherman Morgan stock The Bush Messenger menti. sed
above weighs SEQ lbs, he is 17a hands high and he
trots in less than three minu He is owned by
Hiram Reed, of Augusta, Me-, and is cetratcd for his
him than any other stallion that know OF. Joseph
Mosher of Enc county, New York, has Genesee Gray,
well-known New York stock horse .. G. Tinkham, Of
stallion from French and Morgan stock He Is
eight years old, and very. spirited jackson Nj
chols shows Messenger stallion Seobse Wasmngs
1235 pounds. Mr. r. Twiche, of Petersham, has black
Morgan stallion, eight years old, very fue shswy ami
NAL One of the prettest horses the ground Lone
star, ewned by H. Bal of New York. He is by the old
Vermont Black Hawk out Of Morgan mare, and can go
in three minutes Captain w. A. Newman has year old
Black Hawk stallion also Morgan mare and pair of
The show pecunary promises to be eminently
full Up to this time So $50 have been received for
trance fees and admission tickets The expenses will not
exceed 81 500 and the getters up Of the affair will pro-
badly have handsome surplus for the next exhibition
The exhibition is intended to bring together many
horses and horsemen possible. They can come here
show their horses see those OF other people, buy or
sell if they desire, and at the time spend their
money at the Springfield hotels and in the Springfield
shops The thieves and pckpockets here in great
mum bers and that ubiquitous individual Mr. Smith has
Just been made victim the tune of $l15 Tomorrow
the affair is to be wound with banquet and speeches.
when all the great guns will be let of W.
THIRD DAY-THE BANQUET-TOAST5 AND SENTI.
AENTs--AwARD OF PREMIUMS, ETC.
SPRINGFIELD, Oct 2l-P. NJ.
The third day of the exhibition opened with the same
delicious Indian weather with which it had been
favored during the previous days. The attendance
very good and when arrived the ground at half
nine was covered with peopenot less than four thou
sand being The amphtheatre seats
almost entirely ed the sober dress of the being
eved by the gay dresses and many coored paraso of the
ladies' There procession of all the horses number
ing about four hundred Many favorite received
with applause including Cassius NJ Clay, whose splendid
cular attention.
Mr.. M p. WILDER came to the front of the stand, and
sad that in view Of the great of this, the only
national horse exhibition held in the world" the
audience uested to give three national CHEERS
Some the audience did but the larger number began
to think the cheering useless.
Tho regulsr business of the day then proceeded
with-the show Of ponis being first in order.
Ponies decidedly in the minority, though Bsrn,n
was chairman the committee This the only failure
that he was known TO lave hing to do with
Kitty and Fanny by Black Hawk stallion out of Morgan
mare from Vermont. pair of Indian ponies, Charley
and Jack. pair of Shetands Venus and Jupiter, by
imported sire out of imported dam Zanzibar East In
dap weighing 400 lbs Tom and Jerry, French breed;
Siren Black Hawk sire and imported French dam;
Charley, Morgan Black Hawk, sned by Vermont Black
Bawk Cock Robin, Morgan. Honest John, sired by st.
Iawrence Flying Indian nsan blood There several
noticea BILE specimens of indian ponies.
After the ponies thoroughbreds Not very large
number could be expected but few horses in America
can show pedigree clear to the Darey Arabian the
Godophin. Bet very few entries made, only six
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