The San Francisco call., 1896-08-27
PRIZE CUPS FOR
THE HORSE SHOW
A Number of New and
Beautiful Trophies Are
Donated.
ONE CUP rs JEWELED.
Inducements Are Now Offered
for Pacific Coast Bred
Horses.
AGENTS VISIT COUNTY FAIRS.
In Some Glasses No Preference Will
Be Given TO Horses With
Trimmed Tails.

The horse show, which opens on the
9th of next Decem ber, promises to be the
best which has yet been held on the Pa
cific Coast Every effort is being made to
induce different classes of horse owners to
exhibit. Agents of the association have
toured the country, visiting farms and
ranches as far north as Puget Sound. The
county fairs are all being watched for ex-
hibitors, and as especial inducements are
offered this year to Pacific Coast bred
horses, the probability is that there will
be large increase in the number of ex-
hibitors.
A number of cups are offered this wear.
and it is expected that there will be more
before the date of the show. Five hand
some cups, being made by Shreve, are just
about completed.
In the thoroughbred class the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club offers for the best two
year-old colt a silver-gilt cup, studded with
amethysts. A. B. Spreckels offers a silver
cup for the best performance of an anna
teur in driving four-in hand through OBJ
stacles. This cup was not offered last
year. Among the other cups, not offered
last year is the Robert F. Morrow chal-
lenge cup for the best four-in- hand Pacific
Coast bred horses, to be shown before
coach, break or wagonette, no preference
to be given to horses with docked or
trimmed tails. This cup must be won
two years in succession by the same ex-
hlbitor before becoming mis- property, and
in the meantime it is to be held in trust
by the association.
In the trotting class the Shreve silver
cup is offered for the best stallion. four
10 Do
class IL, donates silver cup for the best
pair OF driving horses. The following
scale of points will govern in jud ging class
II: Each horse, % per cent-50 per cent:
the pair, 20 per cent; wagon, 10 per cent
harness, per cent; robes, blanket and
whip, 5 per cent; general appointments,
taste, etc, 10 per cent; total, 100; speed
not essential.
The cups, the designs for which are not
yet accepted, include the John Bradbury
cup, new this year, for the best perform
ance of an amateur in driving tandem
through obstacles; the California Jockey
Club cup for the best jumper, perform
ance over fences only to count; the George
A. Pope cup for the best pair of horses ex-
ceeding 10 hands 1 inch, to be shown be-
fore brougham or victoria, horses to
count 80 per cent and the appointments 80
per cent.
The FL. ]. Crocker cup is offered for the
best polo pony, fourteen hands and under.
manners and hardness to be especially
considered. To secure this cup owners or
amateurs must ride. The Joseph D. Grant
cup is offered for the best team of two or
three. Fire Department horses, to be shown
to regular fire engines. This cup is to be
won two years in succession.
1t is expected that the class for Pacific
Coast bred horses, which is new this year,
Will add considerably to the interest of
local owners. In this class no preference
will be given to horses with docked or
trimmed tails. Last year it was found
that owners of livery-stables were deferred
from exhibiting by the fear of having to
compete with wealthy owners, like Walter
5. Hobart. This year there is a livery
Glass; IN which no preference is shown to
horses with docked or trimmed tails. as
llvery-men complain that docking or
trim ming horses tail interferes with its
sale.
1t is expected that the class for horses
and delivery wagons will add a pictur-
esque feature to the show. The horses are
TO be shown before an appropriate deliv-
cry or express wagon, the horse to count
oo per cent and the wagon and appoint
ments 40 per cent.
In the class for horses in harness the
rules have peen changed in a way which
Will obvlate the posi- bility of one horse
swee ping the whole thing.
Among those who have already secured
private boxes for the coming show are:
d. J. Crocker, c. A. Spreckels, George A.
Pope, George A. Newh all, John Parrott.
z. de Guigne, James d. Pheian, w. ii.
Grocker, Charles F. Crocker, Mrs. Charles
Baldwin, Mrs. G. w. Crocker, r. J. VIII
son, q. w. Prescott, Timothy Hopkins. ].
.. Grant, E. E. Eyre, Mrs. E. L. Hager, J.
b. Crockett. Maurice Casey, III. Won
Schroeder, c. E. Worden, w. II. Dimond.
Eleanor Martin, William Alvord, John F.
Boyd, A. S. Tubbs, C. B. Stone, Charles
Main, w. F. Goad, Mrs. N. G. Kittle, P. J.
Donahue, Il. }. McCutchen, John Barton,
I. I'll. Williams Jr. Mrs. w. B. Hooner
Mrs. E. J. Baldwin, l. w. Hellman Jr.. ii.