The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
The HORSE STILL POPULAR.
INCREASE ~ ENTRIES FOR Snow
BEGINNING TOMORROW.
Many New Exhibitors. Including q Dan.
gerOus Factor From ChicaGO-This
city, Boston and Philadelphia We'll
Represented Features Of the Week.

early days of the association will readily
compare the great strides made both in
popularity among horsemen-th who
are exhibitors with the public that
have become liberal patrons. To-day
not 10 be an exhibitor or a patron of the
exhibition is almost equivalent to elimi-
| mating ones self from the circle where
the love of the horse predominates.
Each year since the show was inaugu-
rated the entry list to the various classes
has steadily kept growing. Last year the
total number Of entries was 745 and this
year it IL increased to 700. II Il the same
with the exhibitors. Those who have come
before the judges year after year have
formed the nucleus around which the new
corners gather, and in this way the success
has been ever on the increase.
The influence of the National Horse Show
has been far reaching aside from its own
show ring. Almost every city within a
radius of 100 miles of the metropolis now
has a horse show. even If only as an added
feature to the annual fair. This has greatly
stimulated exhibitor, and those who have
been fortunate in getting recognition else
where look forward with added hopes OF
final victory in the parent association.
In the coming exhibition the home ex-
hibtors will meet a stronger outside con-
| tingent than ever before. The creates,
number of entries from any one source
| has been given by a new aspirant for met.
| ropolitan show-ring honors. This is the
| stable OF j II and W II. Moore of Chicago
| This firm Is credited with having collected
| one Of tho best and most attractive lots OF
| harness horses eyer gathered under one
| ownership
Another new exhibitor will come from
the home contingent and from the we'll
| known family founded by Commodore
| Vanderbilt. large entry list has beer
received from both Reginald and Alfred
| Gwynne Vanderbilt and Harry Payne
Whitney also contributes liberal share II
nominations.
Another prominent nomination for the
| metropolis, although Chicago has strong
| claims upon him as representative, l.
c. X, g. Billings. whose list of nominate rs
stafds well toward the head of the lis,
| Mr.. Billings is well known to all patrons OF
sport where the horse is prominent. He
| will he an exhibitor ia the fourth hand
and other heavy -haress classes and also
| in the saddle contests. His stable OF light
harness horses, trotters and PAGERS is one
Of the most extensive owned by any one
man in the world.
The Philadelphia exhibitors will be par.
ticularly strong this year, and it goes with
out saying that they will not return to the
| Quaker City einpty-handed. Such well
known names AZ J +. Widener George W
| Childs Drexel and +. C. Stotesbury fgur,
in the list and they have never yet ex'
hibited without earning high honors.
| The Boston contingent will not this veal
I include Thomas W. Lawson, but +. ID
Jordan will again try to sweep the ring
with his hackneys. and as whole tn,
Hub" will not lack for representation.
There has been a marked change from
year to year in the character Of the entries
Influenced largely by the taste and demand
| of the public. Formerly the breeder wa
| the most prominent exhibitor, and III,
| foundat ION material-the diamonds as yo
| unset-was the chief attraction to tn
patrons. Year by year the finished prod
| uct has been becoming more prominent
and now the public delights to see not wha
can be produced but what has be pro
duced This by no means reflects upoi
the value Of the breeding industry or tn
important part the breeder fills. In fact
il makes the foundation all the more prom
inent. because all work must begin at tn,
foundation. 1t shows not what may per
chance be reared upon the foundation
but what has been done and can be don
again.
While every class and every division ha v
received liberal entries, the several divl
sions of the harness classes and the DIFF
| Il. 10. k,.u 4 In
will be the special features OF these In
hunter" classes have filed to Overlooking
and the entries in the various jumpin
classes are legion Then. too, the varioU
pony classes are far in excess Of any pre-
| vious entry list
The management has made an excellon
arrangement Of the programme as a whole
each day being varied and having som
| 81 ecial features, This will be appreciate
| y those who do not attend every day an
| who will prefer to be present when III
| classes that most strongly appeal to thei
| fancy are SHOWN
| Beginning Tomorrow at 1890 o'clOc
in the morning, Cass 90 will Toe showr
This is for horses suitable TO become hunters
and there are seventeen entries. Al |
| o'clock the bugle will call into the rim
sixty -one hunters or jumpers and then h
| great exhibition may bc said TO bc unde
fun swing From that hour until th
doors close on Saturday night there wi
| not be an exhibition hour that will not b
of interest to the crowds at the ringside,
The harness classes fill in the create
portion Of the afternoon with one four in
hand class in which six nominations vii
compete The entries to the various har
ness classes that come under the class
fication Of light harness, medium and heavy
harness horses have been largely con
'ributed by many former winning owners
There is n sprinkling of new names in IN
list that IL suggestive Of even keener com
petition than ever before
Among the contributors 10 the variou
| harness classes are James Il. Taylor, II. I
Hoskier. Mrs William h. White, Jane
IN HYDE. Walter Lewisohn, Frankli
Haines, Mrs G.. X. Davidson, H. n, Salmon
> Miss Catherine Cameron, L. l.. Bddl,
, Edgar Clausen, J. +. Carlisle, q. W. {
t Drexel. J. T.. Widener, Or. John l., Went;
Mrs. j. Forbes Potter. Mrs. John Gerkei
) Albert C. Burrage William Coleman Free
: man, Harry Payne Whitney, Regnal
? {. Vanderbilt. Mrs f. II. I.adew, A. 4
! Houseman. A. J. Nuttng, F, b. Bown'
q. X. O. Billings. W. II. Moore, Alexand,
. | Rutherford, Henry Rowland, William Tr,
; | vor, Walter F. Blake and many others {
, equal prominence. both in the social an
horse world
The list Of famous harness horses thu
, | will be shown in the various classes wi
=. include Birmingham and The Only Wa,
n | His Highness and His Eminence, Lor
y Brilliant and Lord Brilliant, Jr., Roys
h Blush and Royal Flush. Lord Wooton an
LADY Wooton, Confidence and Perfection