The morning call., 1894-11-28
THE HORSE SHOW.

Tie show will open to-day. and the Pa
vilion will of course be crowded. There
are 400 entries already, and possibly room
for few more, so that the number IF ami
mails on exhibition will probably be one
third as many s we're seen at the New
York show. Among these will be horses
which cannot be beaten anywhere-such
stations as Salvador. Tenny, Sir Modred.
IsliDgton, POintsman Jr. and others, ana
such mares as FirenZi. Bessie June, Flora,
FlOretts. and so on. For breeding pur-
poses New York had nothing to show
which surpassed there. though for car
riage horses and saddle horses finer beasts
were seen at the New York exhibition
than will be on parade here. We have no
such four-in-hands as they can show,
simply because there are more people In
New York who can afford to drive four
in-hands than there are here. How our
Toadsters and drafthorses will compare
with those which were seen at Madison
square Gardens it will be for Mr.. Riyes
and other judges to decide.
The horse-breediDg industry shares with
other industries the depression of the
times. At New York the show was not
only as successful as usual, but the re-
ceipts were $4,000 in excess of those of
last year. But 1t must be remem bered
that prepondera ting proportion of the
wealth of the country is concentrated at
New York. Many people who are rich 60
TO live there, and this fall the millionaires
passed round the word that money should
be spent on the show, just to demonstrate
that business is reviving. and that those
NJ O oaod in irff
heart. Thus the average price realized
for the boxes at Madison-sQuare Garden
was 1915. Here our PEG pie are con tent to
pay 500, which is enough, considering the
condition OF business and the size of the
city. People here are not putting much
money into borseflesh just now. Mr..
Haggln had to stop his auction sale of
colts and flles. and to send the beasts
back to the ranch. He is better off than
another breeder who started a train lot of
young horses from the breeding farm 10
market and, being short of monN. COW
enanted with the railroad that its agent
should sell the animals on their arrival at
their destination, and after deduciing the
cost OF transportation, account to him for
the balance. The transaction terminated
in reclamation by the railroad for a
round sum OF money.
Visitors to the show will not waste time
or money if they devote their visit to a
study of the points of the horses, AS a
rule, people who are not horsey lust know
a horse from cow; their knowledge
stops there. Ye; there is as much differ
ence between horses as there is between
men. Some horses, which are perfectly
sound in wind and limb. and to all appear.
ance commendable beasts, are dear at a
price which would be dirt cheap fo- we'll
bred animals. yet it requires a connoisseur
TO distinguish the one from the other. In
choosing G clerk or servant an employer
is guided by the speech of the applicant.
Horses cannot speak, and he who proposes
to judge them must be guided by the ex-
preston of their face. the brigh tness of
their eye, the symmetry Of their limbs. the
due distribution of muscle. nerve and
tissue. No one but an expert can form a
reliable judgment on these data, but ladies
and gentlemen who study the animals ex-
hibited at horse shows may arrive at a
superficial knowledge which may be ser.
viceable.
In one possessed of humane instincts a
horse show cannot but stimulate love and
affection for the noble animal which is ex-
hibted. n It is marvellous how much intelli-