The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-20

ranch ponies. To take racing ponies to
Texas, the country of the quarter horse,
seems like carrying Goals TO Newcastle;
but the poloists are keen on the expedition.
The gossip was another proof that the
assemblage talked horse and sought Tor
horey themes.
Chicago had it's hack at New York in the
afternoon tandem class, when ". II; Moore's
out. Reginald Vanderbilt was second,
Miss Bedford's entry third and the Baltimore
chestnuts, Norma and Chatterbox, from
G. W. Watson's string, came fourth. IL
seemed as though the honors In the heavy
harness classes this week are to lie between
W. Ii. Moore and the two Vanderbilts, just
as two weeks ago at the Chicago show. the
issue was a race between Jane s Hobart
Moore and Reginald Vanderbilt.
h women, day and evening, were
fashion plates. The men had more latitude
in their choice OF raiment. Harvey 3. .
LAdew, Reginald Vanderbilt and Jay
O'BIien wore neat suits OF gra in the ring.
Judge Moore was faithful to q frock coat
and. with silk hat tilted over his nose, sat
on the driving seat as though ready to
address a jury. Alfred Vanderbilt wore
a dark blue sack suit and black derby.
His plain attire was in contrast to the charm
ing sartorial effects OF his stable manager,
Charles Wilson. The latter wore a sack
suit of deep fuzzy brown and light brown
derby. the d being to give chaste ex-
preston to autumnal tones. The manager
had his employer beaten 20 a fragile In
clothes. j. Campbell Thompson and
In the evening there were some quick
changes from dress clothes to driving or
riding suits in a room below the boxes.
As to the attendance, it was on a rising
scale that reached food tide at night. At
its height there was not the crush to come,
nNlnaa DraCoAopfa Fail fn.uiOht and fhQ Fa-
naming nights. This has not been a good
fall for city horse shows, for money has been
lost at Chicago, Louisville and Kansas City,
but the National, especially now that a
genuine horse tone has been established, a
cult on appointments and c~onformations. is
sure 20 be the accustomed success. The
New York show is twenty-five years old,
and Cornelius Fellowes, F. X. Sturgis, H. II.
HOLSTER, John G.. Heckscher and James T..
Hyde, with others who have grown twenty
two years yonng in its management, stood
about last uight the pictures OF content
ment and pleasurable expectation
Over the acre OF brown b n the
festoonings in black and orange, the show
%colors, a blaze OF electric lights did not
Offset the dingy shades when the doors
we're opened last night. In came the on
lockers, in couples or groups, as slowly
as folks gather for church service. The
women we're in grays, whites or pinks, or
other light colors. but this trio OF tints
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seats Jack of the boxes. or on the balcony,
in order to zee everything. Last came
the box parties, hurrying from their motor
cars or carriages while the saddle ponies
held the ring. And now the boardwalk
filed up and a throng three or four deep
chung close to the ring rails. Notable men
and men OF passing note, each bearing a
broad stretch OF shirt front and evening
clothes. were on the promenade. The
scene is al old as the present adiso Square
r1an h,,tIItpp xaf IL IL atnor nou Eanaa
change somewhat in the walk around with
each year, yet there arc stayers.
Men in society called from box to box,
while men outside its pale and worth any
thing from the dress suit they. wore to
81, 900, 900 walked and walked. cycling alter
nately the horses and the box fronts. There
was a band, tuneful and busy, and with
the whirl Of the nags plenty to fill up the
gay picture:
enade wore waistcoats of dark gray silk.
There were enough OF such waistooats TO
reveal a new fashion. 1t was the youths
who went in for " the change OF color, the
older set of club n society men being
faithful to white waistcoats.
There Is to be q conference on Friday
between Messrs. Euren and Gremmel OF
the London Hackney Horse Society and
the American Hackney Association re-
gardinS the prospects OF an International
show, at London next spring. There is
no uOuDb dDpub ~ hoNhhSy. DYONCto
uniting on the project. but whether the
owners of harness horses will take II up
has still TO be found out.
The one class for the American trotter
in its own fashion as a roadster was late
in the night. There had been many Of that
bree ling in the ring earlier, but in heavy
harness and taught to lift their knees and
fold I'D their hooks. There was almost IN
time crush in the building when the
pairs of roadsters were stepping out. The
S~toteebury entries to win at the Chicago
show had many admirers, and to many it
a foregone conclusion that the
Philadelphia banker would win the blue,
as be has done 50 often in this class.
That's the true poetry OF notion
commented a grizzled veteran of the Speed
way as the trotters dashed around. -Old
Vanderbilt and William II.
Vanderbilt, predecessors OF the youngsters
in the ring to-day had both fine road pairs
and they would a no ones dust. II
these boys would ever try the fast trotters
in light harness III wager you couldn't
coax EN- back to a gig or mail phaeton
love or money"
The judging dragged toward the end.
and while the hunters had the ring man
began TO cave. 1t was a wise ~precaution
make an early move, for it took fully
twenty or thirty minutes to go from a mid
die box TO the avenue. With tables under
at hotels and restaurants
time was an object and the scurrying of
in disregard of the fine hurdling could be