The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-16
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Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
New York, November 15.-All went
ell at the National Horse Show to-
day, with spirited contests at every
session and nothing in the way of
protest to mar the sporting zest of
the contest There was a good at
tendance and the uplifted chins which
are peculiar in the carriage of the
swells and fashionable women who
circled the board walk was ascribed
to the stiffness of their neck muscles
from watching the airmen at recent
aviation meets.
Walter Winans figured in the days
proceedings as the buyer of 2. T..
Stotebury's trotting roadsters. Lugano
and Como winners of the champion
ship for pairs at the last New York
show and at the International in Lon
don, The price was not stated and
the guesses as to what he paid range
from $4,000 up to five times that fig
ure.
Willy. 2:o7 IL, the Austrian-bred
trotter owned by Louis w. Winans
and sent to this country to be cam
paigned this season. Won the blue
ribbon, A. c, Pennock driving, in the
class for trotters in harness. None
could enter that did not have record
OF $50 or better, but the record was
not considered in the judging; virtual
~ it was class of roadsters, and the
appointments We're as fine as in tho
usual class of that description. Willy
had been sent out of the ring on
Saturday for bad manners, but he had
no blinkers on his bride to-day and
was as tractable in the ring as the
Doctors horse ambling through viii
lege street. No one would imagine
from the notwithstanding progress of
Willy about the tanbars that he is
timed to the halt-nlile more than once
at lower than two-minutes record.
a Varied Day.
1t was a varied day for the follow
ers of fox hunting and the owners
Of Jumpers. Women rode lightweight
hunters over the jumps at night, and
in an earlier class for qualified hunt
ers the riders had to be members
of Il hunt club and ride In uniform
Twenty-siN out of tifty-seven qualified
for the final on Friday afternoon. Ca
madam and American hunts having
about equal representation.
The fencing has improved with each
succeeding class, and as whole is
mics ahe2d or any snow IN previous
wears. Some think that If the imita-
ton stone wall We're changed from its
gray color. which is about the shade
of the neclStie worn by an afternoon
bridegroom, to an imitation red brick
wall set with white mortar the horses
would rise better at 1t.
An open class for hunters to carry
up to 165 pounds to hounds, confor-
nation and quality to count so per
cent, had twenty-siS contestants. and
was won by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock's
Coronet, which backed up a perfect
trial by good looks. Polariscope, n 1911
brown geldng exhibited by Sydney
/, Josephthal. the Spring Lake gentle
man rider. absolutely refused to take
the jumps and after repeated at-
| telApts to bolt through the iron gates
out of the ring, had the bugle sounded
on him for bad manners,
| Joseph w. Harriman's great little
mare scored a great victory over the
entries OF w. II. Moore, Fairmont
Farms; Walter Winans and eight 9th
ers in an open harness class of the
afternoon, After the Judging Bertram
Mills, OF London. through Jack DON
nelly, offered Mr. Hartman $4,000 for
Lady Dilham. but the National Horse
Show vice president would not accent,
! Mills Is well-known driver of Eng
+, lish shows and was in this country
four years ago when Miss Ella S. Ross
brought from that country O, famous