New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-11

the fate of a fellow creature is at stake Is not
ft for his place.
SOME FEATURES OF THE HORSE SHOU.
In spite of the feverish anxiety and excite
ment of election week, the Horse Show at Aiadi-
son Square Garden has been well attended,
though chiefly by people who do not concern
themselves deeply as to political contests ana
results. The boxes have been filled with
charming faces and graceful figures. The club
men have gathered in force about the dainty
girls from Murray Hill and the weather parts
Of the town, who have freely displayed Their
admiration for fine hOrseiesh and their inter@
in the various tests Of merit. Many bnght
eve has grown more hewitching with its fair
owner's enthusiasm as she watched some pet
from her own stable competing with fayorte
horses from the stables Of her friends. In a
social way the Horse Show has been eminently
successful. as il has been in previous years
People who have ample means to spend in
diversion and for whom the weghtier affairs
Of life mean little have spent there many
agreeable hours.
The show has possessed variety of attractive
features, which justified the attendance and at
tcntim which it received. 1t has been es-
pecially strong in hunters and good jumpers
and in displays Of bold and dashing horse man
shin. In cobs, in roadsters, in horses
suitable for use in dogcarts, T-carts
and the tandem teams, the exhibition
has been remarkably nch and to those
Americans who believe that progress in
eouipages on this side of the water is Indicated
| bv the nearest possible approach to English mod
ole those features of the exhibition have been
gratifying in the extreme Well-matched four
INLAND teams have been seen, and every type
Of horscnesh, from the diminutive and almost
microscopic pony to the enormously powerful
draught horse, has had its representatives. 1t
is true that the department of thoroughbreds
for racing purposes in the stallion and other
classes has been amazingly weak. 1t seemed
ridiculous indeed that such beast as COld-
stream. after trying in vain all the year 10
win littlo selling purses on wel-knOwn race
courses. should take a second prize at a Horse
Show. If the owners of such famous animals
rs The Bard, Firenzi, Hanover, Salvador
tbe Faverdale colt and other stars of the
American turf, could have been induced to send
these champions to the exhibition, its merits
and attractions would have been vastly in
creased.
The racing element is strong enough In the
management, the Coney Island Jockey Ciuo
being extensively represented, but owners have
ALWAYS hesitated to expose their most valuable
and cherished animals to the risks OF trans
portation and the chances for injury to health
Inv sending them from their stables at the vari-
ous racecounses to please the public in Madison
Gouare Garden The inducements are not sufil-
cient for the owners to take tho chances. Then
too. they reason that If people are anxious tc
see such horses as these when they are al
their best they can visit the courses during the
racing season and see those superb creatures
when in their finest possible condition, with
their qualities tested, not by mere comparison
in repose, but by the development Of their ut
most speed in great contests with hundreds Of
thousands of dollars at stake.
II is an odd thing from some points OF view
that while fashion patrOnizes and encourages
the Horse Show, it turns half-eluctant and
distant gaze in these days toward the race
course. The representation Of Murray Hill al
Jerome Park and Sheepshead Bay las
wear was smaller than in previous years
In England no one who has preten-
sions to place in society can al
ford to miss Ascot Goodwood or Sandown
Over there a fashionable set without some in
terest in racing is impossible. Here it il
wholly different. Most of the leaders of Ameri
can society care no more for racing or anything
pertaining to it than they care for the integra
calculus or the binomial theorem. The reason
perhaps, that the spacious mansions uptown
send so many Of their occupants to the ex
hbition in Madison Square Garden is that thu
Horse Show is held at time when there are M
balls or great receptions, and only lew wed
dings occupy the time and thoughts OF people
who have nothing in the world to do except tt
amuse themselves. Moreover, it is so simple
and easy thing to get in ones carriage ate
dinner or after lunch, drive over to the GardeI
and spend an hour or two there in flirting o
|, chatting or petting the favOrite horses. Every
, body meets everybody within the Garden, eX
|, changes "reminiscences and anecdotes OF tn
, summer ana discusses the prospects OF thu
opening season in the city. When interest il
the horses or in any feature of the affair be
comes dull one can depart at moment
= notice. To go to raceoourse and spend tn
afternoon Is a somewhat more formidable under
taking, and pcnicking at Jerome Park or an.
sort Of sport in the open air finds but a small