Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-27
HORSE SHOW ENDED
Event Proves Financial as
Well as a Social Success.
PLAN LARGE FOR FUTURE
Elated Managers Talk of Interna-
tional Show for Capital.
THRILLERS FOR FINAL DAY
Jumpers and Uncle Sans Troopers
Furnish Large Gathering With,
Picturesque Entertainment.

The Washington horse show at Amer
lean League Park wound up yesterday
afternoon with the finest exhibition of
norsefesh which has been seen in the
National CAPITAL The show was a
marked success from every standpoint,
including that of the horse-loving set of
society, and of the children who use the
public Fairgrounds. One-half of the
proceeds of the show go for the benefit
of the Washington Fairgrounds
Yesterday between 5000 and 5000 per-
sons gathered in the big stands stood
about the ring at the ball park, doing
homage to the horse. The program was
varied and the rapidly changing actors
wore in turn the garb of the fashionably
clothed horsemen and horsewOmen of the
park the pink coats of the hunting field,
and the blue and gold of Uncle Sans
cavalry.
Brilliant Scenes in Stands.
In the stands the scene was scarcely
less picturesque, for the world and his
wife were present. Members OF the cabi-
net, diplomats, society buds and their
oder sisters in such profusion and sucn
hats that it was we'll nigh impossible for
a mere man sitting in the back rows of
the stands to tell whether ne was at
tending a horse show or a pink tea
President Tart had sent word early in
the day that ne expected 10 attend the
show, but business held him at the
W hite House until late in the afternoon.
The President showed his interest In.
the show by attending the first Jay, and
has spoken in favor of an annual show
in the National Capital, with perhaps a
big indoor show during the winter, when
w ashington may hope to draw the
horses which make Madison Square Gar
den the greatest show ring in the coun-
try. President P. v. De Graw of the
Washington Horse Show Association,
goes even farther and hopes to MAKE
the Washington horse show an interna-
tional event in the near future.
High Jumps of Roustabout.
The jumping classes Wed with the ex-
hibitions by the officers and troopers
from Fort Myer, Va, for the interest Of
the crowd yesterday. Although Miss
Katherine Cherbonnier, the daring young
horsewoman from Maryland. did not
break the worlds record for the high
jump on Louis LeightS ROuStabOut, the
chief interest of the day centered in this
event. When Roustabout was broUghC
into the ring late in the day, Miss Marie
Louise CherbOnnier, sister OF Miss
hdtneGlnG, mounted the Juniper anu
took him over the bars at SIX feet, snow
ing herself a daring and skillful horse
woman. The jump mad been arranged so
that the horse ana rider faced the tnronS
in the grandstand, and this worried
Houstabout Once he refused the jump
and had not Miss Cherbonnier been d
clever rider she would have taken the
jump over the bars and left her mount
behind. 1t was decided that it would
not be wise under the circumstances for
L f.harhnnnior IN a
! the record, but that she should rest con-
tent with the record of six feet six
| inches, which she made on Roustabout
| the first dayoOf the show. For that per-
loving cup by the management of the
/ show.
Cleared 6 Feet 8 Inches.
| "Pswee' Rose, well known as a profess
| sional jockey in the racing and hunting
| world was mounted on Roustabout, and
| with the bar at six feet eight inches
sent the big jumper over with rush
| He was roundly applauded for the feat
| No attempt was made to go higher
| however
There were three hunting classes, fol
| ladies Hunters, green hunters and mid
/ dle-weight and heavy-weieht hunters
The ladies' hunters brought out an eX
! hibition of good horses and clever riding
! Mrs Allen Potts, Miss Jeanette Allen
| Miss Martha Hazard and the Misses
! Cherbonnier piloted the hunters over thu
| bars and brush. Mrs. Potts had eX
| pected to win this event with Willow
| King, a splendid bay gelding which ha:
/ won prizes in shows all over the south
| But Willow King was worried, apparent
| ly. by the arrangement OF the jumps
| two of which faced the crowd, and re
| fused the first, though Mrs. Pott
brought him back and sent him over OIL
| the second trial u. ID. Benner's Kin;
| Edward took the blue in this event, anf
Miss Martha Hazard. whose plucky rid
ing has been a feature of the show. tool
Melvin Hazen's Virginia Girl over TO
the red.
/ Interest in Green Hunters.
The green hunters class. always inter
esting to followers of the hunt, had !;
large entry and the jumping was uni
formly good Mrs. Allan Potts blacl
mare, Black Bird, gave a fine perform
ance and took the blue. Rock Abbey o
the Blenheim farm was second prize, witt
Paradox, also Of the Blenheim farm
third.