The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-04
Deg Moines Total Exceeded Twenty
Four Hours Before Entries Closed
with Eleven Hundred Names.
AUREL BAToNYI TO BE HERE
FAMOUS WHIP WILL GIVE DRIVING
EXHIBITION.
Peppers Champion High Jumpers
VIII Come and an Army Of Ken
tucky-Bred Saddle Horses.

Manager Mills and Mortimer lowering, OF
the Indianapolis horse show, returned
from the Louisville show yesterday. They
were eIated with the great success Of the
indianapolis show. When Mr.. Mills added
his entries. secured in Louisville, with
those that had already been entered In the
books here. he found that the number was
far over 1000 and that the indianapolis
show will set new mark for the West TO
shoot at.
considering that this is the first show
for Indianapolis" said Mr.. Mills last night,
"ths showing is amazing 1 thought the
Des Moines show had topped them all when
II exceeded the 1000 mark, but along comes
Indianapolis and at its first opportunity
becomes the top-notcher. And this, too.
with superior quality of exhibits. includ-
ing not only the best stables and the best
horses, but attracting the most noted men
of the show circuit. The acceptance of an
invitation from indianapolis by Aurel
Batonyi is indeed a compliment to the
Wooster capital"
Batonyi is the most famous whip in
America At the Madison Square Garden
last year he drove a match race with
Maurice Hewlett, the French champion,
came to this country and defeated him.
Batonyi has been West but once before.
That was last year. when he gave an ex-
hibition of driving at Kansas City. He
IS the most famous man in the show ring
and Is the leader OF coaching and driving
in New York He is an authority on show
etiquette and his apparel for all occasions
OF ibis character is the model for general
use. He is a Beau Brummel. He is re-
garded as the best judge of high school,
saddle and harness horses in the country.
During the Indianapolis show he Will give
an exhibition OF four-in-hand driving.
While at Louisville Mr.. Mills completed
the list of judges for Indianapolis. This
list represents all the elements of the she "
circuit and includes many OF its notables
The Judges will be:
3. Castleman, Louisville; George b.
Hume, New York; ]. b. Bowles, Bards-
town, Ky; G. l. Goulding. Denver; w. r.
Goodwin, Jr., Chicago; ii. r. Crane, chi
cago; Clarence Moore. Washington, and
John r. Gentry. st. Louis
Mr.. Gentry is the man who first owned
the great PAGER bearing his name and who
paced at Readeville. Mass. in 2:OO4. He
Is fine judge of saddle horses. General
Castleman is president Of the Louisville
show.
PEPPERS FAMOUS JUMPERS.
Mr.. Mills was overjoyed to receive the
pIOlAiSc lIOin ISppcIs VI IOiOHtO,
10 bring his entire stable of high jumpers
here. This means that the largest stable
of this class, including the champion Pearl,
who went over the bar at 7 feet So inches
at the Des Moines show. will perform here.
Besides the Pepper stable Mr.. Mills pro-
cured the following exhibitors of the fam
Gus Kentucky gated saddle and harness
horses: c. +. Neagie. Lexington, who en-
tered twenty horses; ]. T. Crenshawe Lex
ington, who entered ten; Harry Moody,
Eminence; r. w. Ray, Lexington; Matt
S. Cohen. Richmond; j. Z. Rakin, Hender-
Georgetown. Others secured were A. II.
Thorn, Charlottesville; G.. b. Chamber
lain, Kansas City, and John V. Connolly,
Madison. Ind.
Music at the horse show will be an i'm
portant adjunct. The band will be COM
posed OF forty pieces, and Ernest Williams,
OF Winchester, Ind, has been engaged as
reputation abroad. and has sustained ii
since he came back 10 this country. His
reportory is classical. and the London pa
pers praised his interpretations from "Lo-
hengrin'' and "Cavalleria Rdsticana." In
the East, where he played repeatedly, he
scored a popular success. Mr.. Williams
will have numbers on every programme.
final work at festival field. Much has al
ready been done. That which remains. is
largely putting up the material that is al
ready prepared. The progress already
made is sufficient to give the public an
adequate idea of the immensely OF the
festival and horse show plans and will well
repay a visit tomorrow.