The age-herald., 1901-05-16
BY A. E. CAFFEE

The great metropolitan journals discuss the recent horse shows as a new public entertainment. They seem to think that the horse show is a modern innovation As a matter of fact the editorial forces on our great daily papers are so much ab- sorbed in their labors of putting the po- litica1 spectacle before their readers in it's most strenuous form that little time Is left to secure information that relates to matters of practical and utilitarian conditions. The horse show is older than the Christian religion by at least three centuries But the horse show. as wit messed in New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland, has a much more aesthetic flavor and color than those induiged in by the patricians of twenty centuries ago at the Roman amphitheatre, although the Roman populace went wilder with en- thusiasm over the chariot races under the Emperor Augustus than the Boston elite over the elegant four-in-hand hitches of the millionaire, Thomas w. Lawson, of modern Christian civiliza- ton.
 In some respects the pretorian pagans surpassed us in buildings. The great Coli scum in Chicago, which called forth so much admiration during the last horse show, is only meagre and ill-assorted affair when compared with the mighty and majestic F1avian Amphetheatre (The Coliseum) of the city of seven hills, which was ten times as large and capable of seating 10000 people outside of the arena. The seating arrangements at Chi cago for patricians and plebians Is pat termed exactly after the plan of the an- cient Flavian building, and while we have the greatest horses in the world, or rather, the finest and fieetest horses in the world, they had grand horses In an- cient Rome. long before our Christian era dawned upon a pagan world
 Many old paintings in the art galleries of Genoa and other Latin cities exhibit pictures of the show horses of those old days that are truly magnificent specimens of strength, style and finish A very old picture in oil at Genoa of an Aryan en- campment on the shores of the Caspian sea, at the very dawn of history, shows these barbarians tour ancestral tree, in blood lines) magnificently mounted on horses of impressive strength and sym metrical beauty. Hence we observe with confidence that the modern horse show Is a reappearance, in aesthetic and cultured gllise, of one of the oldest entertainments of the pagan world. Mans love for the horse has apaued Tn all ciVihzdtions anu is reasserting itself in new guise and fashionable environment There is no new thing in the modern horse show. It ex- ploits the more showy elements that dom mate our so-called high social life, and it is by far the most wholesome and recre- ative and enjoyable of all the pastimes- It typifies mans inborn love for his best and most useful animal friend, and teaches us, if we care to learn the lesson, that human nature has changed but lit- tie in the twenty centuries that have elapsed since the Emperor Augustus watched with exhilararing. sensations the exciting chariot races in the Coliseum at Rome.
 Something that never occurred before in the yearling champion history is recorded in the case of Adbell and Nellie A. Last week Nellie A. foaled a bay Ally by Ad- bell on the Elmwood Farm near Lexing-