The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-09

public, especially 10 1.-THE farmers. Is that he
can be used until four years old on the
farm, and then thoroughly bitted and man
nered and sent TO the city where
many years to ALI tho demand for
such horses in the New York market alone.
The hackney ia essentially the horse OF
the farm, and some of the greatest ptl2e
winners of this breed have been raised
and trained by small farmers in the "old
country" Among those entered for this
show are A. J. Cassatt'e Cadet and Match
less of Lo~ndesboro, purchased by Dr. W.
Seward Webb from Henry Fairfax. 70
whose good judgment ia due the addition OF
the finest horse of his ciass 10 the atoek OF
this country; Beau Lyons, the property OF
MIR. L. Eastman; Bonfire, John A. loRan's
beautiful stallion, and the old favorite.
Fashion, owned by MIR. PRESCOTT Lawrence.
MIR. Lawrence also enters Nero: W. II.
Sloan sends Berserker who helped Match
less win the championship prize last year,
and Glendale, owned by +. q. Bourne.
Enshorpe Performer, a great prize winner
in England. 10 now on his way to the STUD
farm of II. 1. Higginson. OF Boston, VINO
has entered him for tho show. George
Green, of the Forest View stock farm.
makes a big entry, while the Hiilhurss
farm and the Bloodeood Stock farm Will be
also we'll represented. Mir. Mchlm iwomolS
and Rutherford Stuyvesant, who have ie-
Gently established breeding farms in New
dorsey, have also entered the best of their
stud for the show. Mr.. A. j. Cassatt's Cadet
will be seen in the show ring this year
for the first time, and. judging from ms
magnificent list of prizes. won IN me Keen
est som petition in England. Matchless
will have to look TO his honors. Mr.. Gas.
satt will also be represented by that good
little horse Little Wonder, who has the
strength of a draught stallion with the
quality Of a thoroughbred. and whose get,
with the possible exception OF That OF
Matchless, ia the most uniform of any
hackney stallion in this country. Mr.. Cas-
satt is an expert whip. and president OF the
Philadelphia Coaching club. his four-ln-
hand team of Little Wonders excites the
admiration and envy of all the lovers OF q
perfectly appointed break team.
In the class for coaching stations DR.. W.
Seward Webb, Jack Cheever's Hampstead
farm, Ira L. Otis. Sawyer Il Hallock,
Powell Brothers, of Shadeland, have en-
tered the pick of the French coach horses
on the Atlantic coast, and the competition
for the generous prizes offered Will be un-
usually keen. DIR. Webb has spent a great
deal of money in his efforts to secure a
frst-olass representation OF the French
coach breed, and l am told has a world
heater.
The pony class was never better filed.
and some of the entries. especially thas or
George Green, of Forvest View farm, who
has recently imported largely of Shetland
stock, will. from their diminutive size and
play tul delight the children. Then
feature of the pony exhibit is that
the masters and mistresses OF the diminu-
horses have entered more of their pets
in this show than at any previous time, and
the parade of ponies and carts and little
runabouts promises to be especially good.
An especially attractive feature will be
of the sixteen tandems connecting in
the ring. Among those exhibiting will be
L. Suffern Taylor. A. j. Cassatt. John A.
Logan, Harry Hamlin and s. s. Rowland.
There will be a dozen four-in-hands entered
by such well-known enthusiasts as H. Nc
Kim Twombly, DR.. w. Seward Webb, y.
II. +. Belmont, L. Sutfern Taylor, L. o.
Beach, George Curtis and E. Widener.
The list of exhibitors in the other car
riage horse classes are splendidly filled,
and there will be no lack of interest at any
time for those viewing the ring.
The saddle horses are unusually proml-
nent this year, "a riding has been taken up
by Dame Fashion, and the bride paths In
the park are more crowded every year. or
course, every man or woman who rides
thinks his or her horse a perfect hack, and
over 100 horses ave entered in the various
classes for the prizes. There is an espe-
large entry toc the high school class.
The hunters and jumpers that every year
delight the visitors and draw the crowd
will be plentiful at the coming show. Such
we'll known performers as Hampstead, Co
hassstt, Punch, Lady Lambton, Honest
John, The Ir shman. Bismarck. Queens
berry, The Countess, sweetheart, Merry
Boy. Gleybuok, Maud. Red Baron, The
Clipper. Jack High, sunbeam, Tramway.
Goldie. Sarchedon. Vandal, Lady star, SEN
tlnel. Warrior. Fusileer. Transports, Good
Boy. Ontario. Oxford and other clinkets
are being entered. while amongst the ex-
are Mayor Grant, F.. Gray Griswold,
+. Gerhard, S. $. Rowland. Stanton Elliot,
Harry Martindale, Mitchell Harrison. Sid
ney Dillon Ripley, Miss Bird, Thomas
Hitchcock, Jr., II. l.. Herbert, Douglas
Robinson, Charles Phzer, Frank Clyde,
George Work, Col. Martin, Richard Palmer,
John L. Cowden. Charles Carroll, George
Pepper, j. s. Hewitt, Mrs. Marshland, Van
derbilt Allen and others.