The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-11
AMERICAN HORSES
FOR LONDON SHOW
Big Event Opens Monday
and Will Be Great Feat
ure of Coronation.
National News Association

National News Association)
London, June 10.-The horse is king
today. London and his thousands OF
coronation 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 civilized country entered
For the moment. interest In the great
er Coronation has been transferred to
the lesser one. and the whole city
looks eagerly forward to what Is des.
tined to be the greatest event OF its
kind In all history.
All grades of horse flesh from horse
to charger will be represented; ev-
cry 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 COM
mon fund Of $4,000 which has been
gathered for the event. Every day OF
the exhibition will present program
calculated TO hold rapt the attention
OF all horselovers. and when the final
day of the show. June "a, has passed.
It will be possible to retrospect upon
the event rs the greatest triumph
ever scored for the horse-and in
these days OF the railroad. the auto
mobile and the aeroplane.
World Represented
Every part Of aristocratic Europe
"a well as America, Asia, Australia,
South Africa. South America and
New Zealand will be represented by
turnouts distinctive of the land from
whence they come. Titled visitors
hidden to London for the Coronation,
have brought with them their prize
winning hacks; royalty and enormous
wealth will be represented; there
will be events for women which will
not only brighten the show with a
touch OF feminity. but vii; bring to-
gether the most famous horsewomen
OF the world. and the entry list has
been swelled until this historic event
10 second In interest to none that will
take place during the whole three
months OF English merrymaking.
The flower OF the armies Of the
world powers will compete In special
restricted events that are attracting
interest greater probably than any
others OF the constests. Among the
teams considered more than able to
compare favorably with the English
Knights and their steeds. the Ameri-
can entrants stand first. The repre-
sentatives Of the United States are:
Capt. George vidmer. Eleventh cav
airy; Capt. Guy. v. Henry. Lieut.. Cor
don Johnston. Lieut. r. p. Graham
and Lieut.. Adna y. Chaffee. Jr.,Fif-
teenth cavalry, some OF the distin-
Euished soldiers, now retired, who ad-
ded lustre to American arms. All the
American contestants are regularly
stationed at Fl. Myer. near Washing
ton, that nursery Of American horse
men.
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
represent them at the show, with the
result that this feature OF the perfor.
nance has stepped from the compari.
tivcly undressing position held In
other exhibitions to one Of interna.
tional importance by reason OF the
world wide rivalry Of international
cavalry.
America to Fore
In these events aside from the mill.
tary 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. Stotesbury Of Philadelphia.
u. p. Morgan's banking partner: c.
w. Watson. Il. II. Weatherbee. Julian
Morris of Chicago and Thomas w.
lawson Of Boston.
The number of American horses to
be shown 10 nearly double that In any
previous year.
Besides the exhibitors other Ameri-
can boxholders are Clarence Moore.
d. n. Grand, Reginald Vanderbilt,