Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-14
THE HORSE SHOW.

=, AIa,hf. ,raal. Richmond society as well:
as their host of guests from other parts
OF tho country will trip it to the rythmic
music Of horses hoofbeats and bow doWH5
| in alteration before mans stateliest ana
most faithful friend. To borrow favor Vor-s
| lite expression Of the reporters the morse
will be king in virginia's capital Tor the
| next few days but this statement should
be discreetly qualified by reminding the
reader that pending this equine dynasty
woman more than ever Will pc auee'l'
For It Is during horse shows. be the shows
wheresoever you please that the loVaole
sex don their handsomest clothes ana
thrill us more than ever, with the ra-
dance of their beauty. So, even II you
don't know a hackney from hunter, or
a FLY from gelding you can attend
Richmond's great exhibition with the as
surance that its spectacular features will
fully rccompense you.
The show, which tonight opens Its
doors for the first time in a spacious new
building on the east side of Reservoir
Park, is par excellence social event
an event in which blue blood, both human
and equine, if you plea play an all
important part. The great exhibition had
its precursor here last October in a SINH
lar show in the Auditorium building, at
the old Exposition Grounds, and the splen-
did success then achieved, convinced the
public that Virginans hao not outgroWn
their hereditary love of horse flesh. a
few months ago the structure in which
the first show took place fell a victim to
fire, caused by lightning. ~ new building
being thus necessitated, a site was Sc
lected for it, where all the street-car
lines can be used to accommodate the.
public. The new building possesses every
convenience for the purposes for which 1T
was built-that is to say, the visitor be-
meath its roof will easily be able to see
the richly-attired spectators and the thor
oughbred four-footed performers too or
the latter there are scores in nearly every
class-horses with pedigrees and horses
with records; horses yet destined to as
tonish the habitues OF the paddock, ana
horses whose movements are the poetry
of motion. One and all they will be allow
ed to prance and cavort on the tan bark
arena in the sheen of the electric lights
before a brilliant throng.
But should one weary Of their doings,
or find his powers of discrimination as
horse-fancier befuddled, there will be
much else for him to see, for, as we have
intimated seated in the ampitheatre will
be a splendid host of people, bedight in
their festal bravery, and vying with one
another in presenting a fine appearance.
The pessimist may view it all with a
dull and unappreciative eye and may seek
to cry vanity of vanities," when he
sees the merry tnrong, but for all that
the horse shows the thing in Rich
mond this week. And mentally and ply
sically spawned will be the mortal who
does not try to Ego his best gait when
he falls beneath the spell of the splendid
exhibition.
Virginia is ahead Of all the other
States in fine hunting stock, and the hunt
ers go far towards making up show by
themselves. There is a grand array OF
them here, while all other classes are
we'll filled with entries.