The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1900-09-27
A FINE HORSE SHOW.
PLANNED PLEASE THE VISITORS TO
THE PAN-AMERlCAN EXPOSITION.

Ire PARLIAMENTARY EATOoIItON.
Field Day For the FashiOnables.
Exhibits of Horses of All Breeds.
The Interest of Leading Breeders
and Associations Enlisted.
A Horse Show Of the fashionable
kind, with all the embellishments that
society can bestow upon it, will be one
Of the features of the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo next year.
1t is planned upon the lines observ-
ed in those we'll known society events
Of a like nature held annually in Mad
tson Square Garden, New York city.
Metropolitan society is regularly
thrown into a dutter of excitement as
the time approaches each season for
these picturesque events, and the
great Garden takes on festive air
that is not rivaled again throughout
the year.
Society then shines respondent.
Popular conversation Is upon the COM
parative merits of favorite animals.
The decorations Of the person and of
suggest the horse. The newspapers
talk horse and the whole metropolis
pays homage to the high bred animals
whose proud pedigrees become as fl,
miliar as the biographies of statesme,
at election time.
1t is expected to make the great
horse show to be held in the fall of
next year at this Exposition quite as
spectacular and interesting as those
held in New York. On this occasion
the finest bred animals of the Ameri-
cas- will be brought together to COM
pete for honors and the favor of the
public.
The show will be held in the
Stadium, which is to be the great
show place of the Exposition, having
seats for more than 10000 and a track
a quarter of mile in circumference
While a general display of horses
will be made at this show. of particular
interest will be the animals adapted to
the uses Of fashionable society, such as
saddle horses and ponies, tandem driv-
ers, hunters, Jumpers, polo ponies, cou-
pc and coach horses, four-i hands,
include many costly equipages and
novel turnouts that are used with the
finely bred animals that will be
brought forward to delight the public
eye.
Superintendent F. A. Converse of the
Live Stock division has planned to ac-
commodate 1000 horses in the exhibit
of American bred animals. The breeds
that will be recognized are Standard
bred, Thoroughbred, French coach,
French trotters. Cleveland bay, Olden-
burg. etc.. Belgian, Hackney, Morgan,
Arabs, Percheron, Clydesdale, English
shire, French draft. Suffolk. Punch,
Shetland ponies. Jacks and Jennets.
This will be the occasion for bringing
together the finest animals bred on the
western continent. While the trolley
car and the automobile have relieved
the horse Of much of his drudgery, he
continues to occupy a distinctive field
| of work in the general economy. The
tendency Of the times, too, is to pro-
| duce better animals.
The cheap car horse has to a large
extent gone out. and scientific breed
ing Is replacing the common stock
with horses Of higher intelligence and
efficiency. The experience of many
breeders during the introduction of the
trolley car and the flooding of the mar
ket with cheap horses was discourag-
ing, and a large number turned their
attention to other lines of work.
The situation, however, is considera-
bly, improved, and prices are again
more nearly what they should be. The
interest in breeding is regulated by the
pecuniary reward, and the improved
demand lends a new attractiveness to
the breeding and training of horses.
The demand for horses in cities contin-
ues brisk, particularly for draft ami
mails such as the Clydesdale and the
Percheron, and for gentlemen's driving
and coach horses.
The Live Stock division Of the Pan
American Exposition will offer to
breeders an opportunity to place be-
fore the public high bred, stylish, good
acting horses with a view of showing
what particular crosses are advan-
tageous in producing such animals.
Experiments have been made wiz"
view Of producing large standard bred
horses with the most admirable re-
suits.
Another feature will be an exhibit
Of horses adapted for cavalry purposes.
The extraordinary demand for cavalry
horses within the last few years has
brought to the attention of breeders
the wisdom of producing a type of
animals having the qualities that the
cavalry service requires. Not only has
the demand been very large for the
United States army, but foreign buy
ers have freQuented the American
markets and purchased many animals
for the armies of other countries. Sew
eral large breeding establishments are
already turning their attention to the
raising Of cavalry horses. With the
great number of horses that will be
brought together at the Pan-American
Exposition the visitor will have an
opportunity seldom equaled to make a
particular study of this line Of breed
ing.
Superintendent Converse is In cor
respOndence with the entire % Ma
tional Associations whose members are
engaged in sheep breeding and wool
growing. He reports that every asso-
citation, without exception, Is much in
terested In the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton and that 1t will contribute ex-