The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-19
THE OPEN AIR HORSE SHOWS
ATLANTIC CITY, LONG BRANCH
AND BAY SHORE NEXT.
Americans Back From Europe TO Attend
Them-A. G. Vanderbilt Ready for
Coaching and Has Bought Hackney !
Ponies-C1reult 10 Madison Square,.

the London SHOW the great Trio OF hastefn
summer horse shows will be launched &c
repeat their former successful voyages,
The Atlantic City Horse Show will open on
Tuesday. and In succeeding weeks there
will follow the equine tournaments OF the
Long Branch Horse Show Association and
the Bay Shore Horse Show Association.
Each show IL as different in Its character
istios as an Arabian pony and a Western
burro, no matter how often the same horses
may meet In the rings or the same women
or man compete az whips. Horses are az
fokle rs firts In their moods and seldom
appear In as fine show form In successive
weeks, or else there Is q difference In the
conditions OF the classes to justify the
judges favoring one horse ut q show and
another ut the next. But judges very sell
dom seek to justify their yerdlcts, however
Whimsical they may appear. which 10 an
other reason why tho horsemen who swing
through the show circuit find something
entirely different TO entertain them at
every stop.
Yet it n the public that makes q horse
show sometimes best worth watching, and
few win deny that but for "the gate there
would not be any show held at all. The
DpAnVh00tb oiO WIG tuoot piohtabio
OF the spectators 10 the management, but
the buyer OF the general admission ticket
10 also reliable souroe Of income. Then
there are the receipts from the programmes.
IN which every tradesman Of the neighbor-
hood 10 asked to advertise, to swell the In
take. and also presents Of Especial prizes. The
entrance fees Of the in the Glasses
are also counted on to stand of the prizes
and other disbursements. so that II Il far
more rare for a summer show to lose money
than for q city show to do so. Yet all this
may be o base and sordid way Of thought.
for compared with the fun they return to
the populace no one really cares whether
tho stockholders pull down large or o small
dividend. And the stockholders are often
OF the same mind and as devoted to true
sport ~ the rich men who spend $50 900
yeariy IN their show strings to win perhaps
o t3the Of that sum at the best.
Atlantic City Is the gayest Of the show
places. The distractions of the surf and
thu Boardwalk are q foil to the contests
Of the horses, with the hotel and cottage
life 20 add further variety. Many Phila-
dalphia. Washington, Baltimore and New
York society percentages always attend.
Tho presence Of the summer girls-who
this year yesrn for ACKNOWLEDGMENT their
enivens the gatherings. Besides,
there IL On element Of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey farmers who are genuine horse
lovers. In all. a busting throng to note
each days judging. For three seasons
A. @. Vanderbilt has run the Venture as
n public coach from the Hotel Windsor
to the horse show each day and it has added
to the sporting effect. r. P. McGrann of
Lancaster. Pa, who won eight first prizes
and thirty-two ribbons in all at the London
Show. bis string including
Newsboy and shopgirl, is expected both at
Atlantic City and Long Branch with his
riding and driving horses.
The Long Branch and Bay Shore shows
have grounds that contain a fine track,
besides an inner field Of turf, and each has
a neat covered grand stand faced by q row
Of private boxes. There 10 a great social
following from the neighborhood for the
shows. besides a daily attendance
from Manhattan by rail. There are many
90 entrants as well as onlookers
this account. At Long Branch carpets
night and the final GLASSES judged
by electric light. The carpeting is no for
the horses, however, but to afford a fine
for the hundreds Of women in
gorgeous toilets and men in evening dress
At Bay Shore the cottagers Of the South
Side. from Islip to Babylon, have boxes,
and there Ii much dinner giving in the
evenings. Road races betwee four-in-
Seabright to HOLLYWOOD Park
and from Oakdale to the Bay Shore grounds
Long Island shows. Mr.. and Mrs. c. W.
OF Baltimore have been favorites
and frequent winners at the three shows,
but their plans are not known regarding
their fine horses this season.
E,,T. Bedford Of Brooklyn. with the Misses
great hackney mare Hildred and Others Of
his string. will surely attend one Of the trio
shows. Bedfordh has purchased from Fred
Pabst, Oconomowoc. Wis, to show in har-
for more money than any other horse
but. Hildred has cost him. the imported
hackney mare Caynton Phyllis. Pabst
bought the mare In England last fall after
she had won the champion class for four
year-olds In harness at Dublin and several
Inst prizes In England. Caynton Phyllis
won two In mare halter classes at the last
New. York show. She stands just under l6.i
hands, IL q dark dapple brown and as brill
Iant a. Hildred 10 harness.
A. o.. Vanderbilt reserved sixteen OF the
trotters he had been using on the Venture
London and Brighton fr ON the
1oio VI Ltn COhCu uoISo III cu8lh0Q. so Jnat
10 now equipped to take the road here |
NJ once. As he Judged this year, the Ameri- |
can show horses were not taken over, and
hey too are now cherry ripe to take on the |
show circuit. There ID much curiosity here
% see his hackney pony four-in-hand, pur- |
,hased Wide In London after they had won
nine blue ribbons and other prizes at the |
International show In single and pair classes.
The ponies were. owned and shown by
Foster OF Mel Valley, Worcester |
shire, and are all bay geldings, the leaders |
1872 and the wheolers 1873 hands. Two Of
hem. Mel Valleys Wonder and Mel Valleys |
Wonderful, are by Whitegate Swell, a great
and OF the Others Mel Valley Won
trous, q four-ycar-old, is by Sir Horace,
he champion pony SIRE OF England, and
ION OF Little Wonder III. There was never |
better opening than now for clever ponies
n harness at our shows. for the fayorites
ire getting into the sore and yellow class |
by slow but sure degrees.
Az to those who will enter for the trio of |
and those to follow them there is no
need to forecast names. The catalogues !
reveal the list Of the old and novice ex-
Of harness horses. ponies. saddle
lorses, hunters or roadsters. This Is the
detailed list OF the summer and fall shows
n which New Workers. have a special in |
crest:
Atlantic City. July Fl to rs; Long Branch, |
July 20 to August l; Bay Shore. August 0 to 8; !