The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-09
All the Best Seats for the Season
Secured by Eager
Admirers.
FEATURES OF THE OPENING.
Governor Budd and Other Celebrities
TO Be Present at the Inaugural
Luncheon,

The horse show ''has come" and brought
with it all that the term implies. The
town has had two annual horse shows,
and as the second was better than the
first the interested ones are now confident
that the third will excel the second.
All was activity at the Pavilion yester-
day. The stalls were filled with clean,
sweet-smelling straw and the floor ID the
vicinity covered with sawdust. The ring
has been laid out Just as it was before, even
the boxes and seats having the same ar
rangement.
TIE whole building is filled with the
pungent odor of the tanbaIk track and
the fashionable ones who turn out to view
the equine beauties to-day will be able to
close their eyes and imagine themselves
beneath the waving boughs of CalaVeraS
or Mendocino forest.
There are over 400 entries this year.
This is nearly the same as last season, but
Major Rathbone. the vice-president of the
association thinks the entries better dis
tributed than before.
The entries among the trotters are quite
numerous. Prominent exhibitors are W.
S. Hobart, J. b. Haggin, +. II. Burke of
San Jose, John +. Boyd of lakewood Park,
Pierce Brothers, William II. Vigoet of
Lawrence, and the Agnew stock farm.
Hobart is entered as exhibitor in almost
every class. His particular forte lies in
the four-in-hands, tandems and driving
horses. Prominent roadster exhibitors
are A. B. Spreckels, w. S. Hobart, Water
house, John Parrott, f. II. Burke and the
Agnew stock farm.
Lovers OF draft horses with their
massive physiques ana full, arching necks
will be disappointed this year. w. F.
Laumeister has small exhibit of these
animals and Dick and Dave will represent
Golden Gate Park Pierce Brothers have
some handsome Clydesdales on exhibit
ton, while Frank Z. Lane of Stockton and
J. BlOndin OF PeLaluma have few entries
of Percherons and Normans.
Saddle-horse entries are also mum erous.
Nearly all the large exhibitors have sew
eral. Some have even sent their private
animals.
Among hackneys are Green's Rufus and
Paragon. Henry ]. Croker, president of
the Pacific Coast Horse Show Association,
has some handsome carriage horses at the
show. Among them are Edward, Edgar,
Dorothy. Prince, Fred and Lena. He has
also a wee pony, Bessie.
w. S. Hobart, G. a. Pope, John PARROT,
Charles A. Baldwin, F. H. Burke and the
Agnew STOCK farm will be the principal ex-
hibltoTs OF horses in harness.
Then there is the class of delivery
wagon horses, slngly and in pairs. The
largest exhibitors in this line are Siebe &
Green, Goldberg & Bowen, the Morton
Special Delivery, ]. C. Irvine & Co. and
the Mount Shasta Mineral Spring Com
pany.
Croker, Baldwin and HOBART are the
only exhibitors of pony tandems, and
they, together with G. A. Newhall and
Joseph D. Grant, form the four-in-hand
exhibitors
The Palo Alto stock farm will make no
exhibit this year. Corbett will also be
missed. W. OBJ. McDonough has his
two-y ear-old colt, Rosalbra entered
among the thoroughbreds. Other exhib-
itors OF thoroughhreds are A. B. Spreck-
els Ed COrTigan, ]. \. Burke of San Jose,
and Burns & Warehouse.
The show will open at A. NJ, and from
that hour till 10 O'clock the horses may be
led or ridden in the ring under the eye of
the rlngmaster. This will be the exercise
hour. No classes will go on to be judged,
however, this morning.
From 10 till II o'clock the horses Will be
driven in the ring, and from IL till II 80
tandems and four-in-hands will nave q
chance to shine.
From 1:30 to u 80 the ring will be kept
cleared for jumpers. Then comes recess
and la er on the inaugural luncheon.
At2 P. NJ. Islington full brother OF the
world-re owned Isinglass, wearer of the
triple crown OF England turf, will be on