The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-12

day. London and it's thousands of coro- nation visitors can talk Of nothing but the great International Horse Show that opens at Olympia Monday with the elite of the equestrian world from every civil
 zed country entered. For the moment, interest in the greater coronation has been transferred to the lessA one, and the whole city looks eagerly forward to what is destined to be the greatest event of it's kind in all history.
 All grades of horsef1esh from cab horse to charger will be represented; every known method of handling horses, riding, jumping, driving and on through all the varieties, practical and impractical, has department and the winners will share in the common fund of $65,000 which has been gathered for the event. Every day of the exhibition will present a pro- gramme calculated to hold rapt the att tention of all horse lovers. and when the final day of the show, June "A, has passed, it will be possible to retrospect upon the event as the greatest triumph ever scored for the horse-and in these days of the railroad, the automobile and the aero- plane.
 Every part of aristocratic Europe, as well as America, Asia, Australia, South Africa, South America and New Zeal and will be represented by turnouts dis tinctive of the land from whence they come Titled visitors bidden to London for the coronation, have brought with them their prize winning hacks, royalty and enormous wealth will be represent -s.l will not only brighten the show with a touch of femininity. but will bring to- gether the most famous horsewomen in the world, and the entry list has been swelled until this historic event Is sec ond in interest to none that will take place during the whole three months of English merry-making.
 The flower of the armies of all the world powers will compete in special re- stricted events that are attracting in- terest greater probably than any others of the contests. Among the teams con sidered more than able to compare fla vorably with the English Knights and their steeds, the American entrants stand first The representatives of the United States are:
 Capt George Vidmer, Eleventh cavalry. Capt. Guy V. Henry, Lieut.. Gordon John ston, Lieut.. E. F. Graham and Lieut. Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., Fifteenth cavalry, son of the distinguished soldier, now re- tired, who added lustre to American arms. All the American contestants are regularly stationed at Fort Myer, near Washington, that nursery of American horsemen.
 The teams against which the Ameri- can army officers will compete repre- sent England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Belgium and France all Of which countries have sent from ten to twenty of their crack army officers to repre- sent them at the show, with the result that this feature of the performance has stepped from the comparatively uninter- esting position held in other exhibitions to one of international importance, by reason of the worldwide rivalry of in- ternationa cavalry.
 In the events aside from the military competitions the United States again comes strongly to the fore. As usual, Judge Moore heads the list of Americans with the number of his entries. Other American exhibitors are E. T. Stotes- bury of Philadelphia, J. P. Morgan's banking partner; c. W. Watson, E. H. Weatherbee, Julian Morris of Chicago and Thomas w. Lawson of Boston.
 The number of American horses to be shown is nearly double that in any pre- vious year.
 Besides the exhibitors other Ameri- can boxholders are Clarence Moore, D. H. Brand, Reginald Vanderbilt. Adam Beck and Edward Morris. Of the Americans, Adam Beck will judge fiar- ness horses and ponies and their equip ment, and Robert A. Fairbairn, troters, their pace and action. Alfred c. Van derbilt. as usual, will judge the costers' horses, an event which always supplies the comedy to the show.
 Among the many interesting features that for the first time will be seen Tn Englands equestrian circles, are spe- cial class for Russian horses and driv- CTS, riding displays for teams of off cers, showing the various methods or schooling army horses ill every mod ern country; bending competitions for polo ponies, and fire brigade displays. Particularly interesting are the Rus sian entries. Russia's cab horses and drivers have no counterpart anywhere The two-hor cab in Russia is hitched to a team, one of which gallops and the other trots. This phase of equestrian ism will be seen in the class for trotter with prestahka, a falloping mate, driven in wagon or droshky
 Another Russian class is for "troila driving three horses abreast--the cen ter one at the trot and the others at the gallop. This only needs one coach man, provided he Is Russian.
 One of the most interesting competi- tons from the spectators point of vi1w will be the polo pony novelty. The animals will have to race between line of posts few yards apart--around one post to the right and the next to the left, the fatal thing being to knock down a post.
 The fire brigade display, entirely new this year, will provide many thrills. The competitors will have to dash at full speed around the course, lodging of a scant inch and a half to each wheel. rt In the womens competitions special inducements have been offered for t/e entry of foreign teams, with the result that the ladies' entries almost equal the mems in number Mrs. H. S, Bowen. New Yorks famous equestriene. is one of the foremost of these. She will show in the harness class the four brown ponies which won distinction at Olympia last season, and which she purchased after the. show for $5000 apiece, from William Foster. The wives of the visiting army officers are to give an exhibition of fancy riding. A spe- nip fnd hU