The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-29


them. particularly IL hooking mallets and
Tho full toxt Of the cable from the Hur-
lingham Club follows;
Hurlin CHAM Club has accepted Amer lean
team ,chsllenge. games to oe played INST
Wi,rEn sMYrnE. Hurlin CHAM Club
To II. l. Herbert. Chairman Polo Associs-
ton. London. Dec. IS. 1901
Foxhall Kcene sailed yesterday for Eng
land on the Campania, but the other mem
bers Of the tenn will not sail until the last
week In April. The ponies will be sent
within a fortnight, SO that they viii have
time TO be- acclimatcd. Agassiz owns the
best ponies about Boston. the lot including
Cinders and Pink Tn. both winners on
conformation from big classes at the last
Boston Horse Show. and famous for speed
and following the BALI on the playing
field. Each IL a Maltese cat for intelli-
gence and spunk. Besides. Agassiz VIII
have the pick of tho ponies about Boston
The team IL n national one. and every
player on II may pick and choose. for Messrs.
Gould, Mackay. Vanderbilt and the rest
have all offered the pick Of their stalls,
John +. Cowdin has one Of The best strings,
especially for n man who Is somcwhat ni
a heavyweight. J. NJ. Waterbury Will
use the bay mare Lightfoot and the chest
nut gelding Blaze Face. both new last
spring, the fleet roam gclding Strawberries
and the bay mare Dawn, each In play three
seasons, and the veteran OF his lot VIII ne
the gay old gray gelding Cricket, In use for
ten seasons Cricket can rnce ~ las, a.
a colt ard is through his experience a moral
support" 10 the horses on his team. Law
renee Waterbury has two that he brought
out last spring, both geldings, Schoo!boy.
a bay. and GCldust, a roam, Ia his mace
contingent are the brown gelding Locket,
used three years. and two that have been
in play no less than eight seasons. the chest
gelding featherstitch and the buckskin
gelding Scrambled Eggs, Hundreds OF
the vast crowds hat have watched the polo
championship matches in Prospect Park
will remember the wild dashes Of Larry
and the yellow streak Of horsefesh he calls
Scrambled Eggs across the field. the field
behind him and the ball resembling a pack
of hounds. FoXhall keene will send across
the chestnut mare Queen broken In last
season: the bay gelding Express, In Use
for two years; the brown mare Texanna,
and the bay gelding Hold Up. both In play
for four sensons. II will be the third trip
Of TeNanna and Hold Up to the far ride Of
the Atlantic.
There is not a pony in the lot that could
bought for 81 COO. for once attained a
good pony il very valuable, The ordinary
anch pony will sell at from $40 to 500
West, even when full Of hot blood and
broken in, but this Eort of stock would
never do for polo. When rustling IN tho
ponies The rauchue eli sort out tho finest
shtAN - A1' NV ~
next remove IL to the cattle runs, v'er"
these p~icked-out ponies are used to cut out
at branding tumc. Then. they become
known as Cow ponies" for they know
he game and need not be guided except
n pressure of the leg 10 swerve. stop or
rush madly forward. Usually about six
or seven years old, such ponies may be
bought al from $500 To $500. but when the
owners arc prosperous they cannot be
for money.
There are ponies now In service out West
hat men like keene or Gould would give
10000 for, but their millionaire owners
the COW pony takes to polo a. the
hing he was born for. and he cuts out the
with the vim formerly shown on the
ranges. Their characteristics arc
speed uhcy can run a quarter mile any
line in rs secondsD, nimblencss, brains
md endurance. Most of the ponies TO
20 abroad have served their time "a COW
ponies. The others have been bred in
he Fast by men who have taken up the
,olo pony IN earnest. r, &. Potter Of tho
Nestohcster County Club. himself an old
,oloist. has raised some very fine ponies,
md so has Mr.. Burden Of Rhode Island.
such ponies are mostly all thoroughbred.
Dur ponies, even at 5000 each, would be
egardcd as cheap by the English players,
There the record price for a pom IL about
1900, and nothing that can gallop a bit
nav be bought for less than 5000. The
worth OF a good pony ia shown by the fact
ha, Keene brings his ponies 10 and fro
,ver the ocean Our men. when they
AXE the field. will have from six 70 ten
,onies a man, for their own stock will be
by those owned by their
ricnds who own nag up 10 the mark,