Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
HORSES ALL READY
President Taft to Occupy Box
at Equine Show.
TOMORROW OPENING DAY
Many Well Known Animals Will Be
on Exhibition.
ARMY OFFICERS TO ATTEND
Boxes for Event Being Sold Rapidly.
Owners Are Pleased
With Ring.

tomorrow at 1890 o'clock at American
League Park. Originally it had been
planned to open the show at / o'clock,
but, owing to the large number of en-
tries in all classes, the management has
advanced the hour to 1880.
With President and Mrs. Taft occupying
a box and many other boxes taken by
persons prominent in official and social
life. here and in New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore the opening Of the show
promises to be a brilliant affair. The
District Commissioners will also occupy
a box. The executive committee Of the
Washington Horse Show Association to-
day extended an invitation to officers
and cadets Of the Presidente Sarmiento,
the naval training ship OF the Argentine
Republic, which Is at the navy yard
here, to be present. The officers and
cadets will be entertained at the White
House at luncheon tomorrow.
The program of events for tomorrow
will be as follows:
1890 o'clock-Class 20. police mounts;
seven entries.
12:45-Class 8. runabout horses; seven
entries.
1OO-Class II, local hunters; ten en-
tries.
1:25-Class B, harness horses; nine en-
tries.
1:b-Speciai class, e. T. Stotesbury's
team of champion roadsters.
1:55-Class 16. sporting tandem; nine
entries.
2:3@Special class. exhibition drill. 18th
| Cavalry, Capt. J. r. Lindsey, command
| ing.
2:DJClass 10. lightweight hunters;
| nineteen entries.
3:3O-Class 10, pair of hunters; nine en-
| tries.
a:55-special class. Miss Katherine
Cherbonnier will attempt to break the
worlds record for the high jump.
t:OJrClass 8, ladies' harness; six en-
| tries.
4:2O-Class IA. free-for-al handicap;
| thirty-five entries.
tries.
Horses Tried Out.
The exhibitors already here proclaim
the ring at the American League Park
ideal for show purposes The owners
who are stabling their horses on the
grounds tried out their animals today In
the ring and the park is alive with
horses, trainers and stable boys busily
preparing the horses for their appear
| ance tomorrow.
| The seating capacity of the stands is
large and the ring is so placed that 1t Will
| be in plain view of ever seat. Boxes are
being sold rapidly. The Presidents box
| is located in the center of the row di-
| rectly facing the field. Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock's box is Immediately to the
| right of the Presidents. and z. V. De-
| Graw has a box next to it. An order for
sixty seats for the officers at Fort Myer
/ and their families was received by the
horse show association Saturday.
| The first horses on the ground were
| those of Miss Amy e. du Pont Of Will
| mington, Del. Miss du Pont is showing
three of her finest animals, Lady Babble,
1 hon ole cc
| Alexandria, "A double harness horse which
| is consistent winner of blues, and Mat
| tie Chimes. young mare which Manager
| Butler of Miss du Points stables thinks
Thomas F. Ryan, Lee Heckinger and j.
| b. Andrews.
Mr.. Fairfax's Horses Arrive.
Henry Fairfax's horses arrived last
night after long trip over the road from
Loudoun county, Va, and Mr. Fairfax got
here this morning. T.. l.. Redman's Hon
orable, which is counted on to uphold
| The reputation OF Loudoun at the snow,
came with Mr.. FairfaXs string. They are
ii stabbed at American League Park, and
are in excellent condition.
| Mr.. FairfaX's horses are OF the hackney
| breed. and are said to be the finest of
that type in this country. Aldie Wild
fire, a bay gelding: Selma Lass, chest
nut mare, and Corris. a bay gelding, are
some of the hackneys entered by Mr..
Fairfax.
| A remarkable horse is Algoma, entered
by the Blenheim Hunt Club of Baltimore,
Of which Walter S. .Abell who will ride
his Keggy Corner in the hunt team class,
IS master of hounds. This horse won the
| five-foot class at the Charlottesville show
last year. with Miss Katherine Cherbon-
ner up lie also won the ladies' hunters
class and the Radnor challenge cup at the
Bryn Mawr horse show. He is entered
III the class for ladies' hunters. lin the
free-for-all handicap and in the light