The Washington times., 1912-04-30
EVERYTHING READY
FOR THE CURTAIN At
LOCAL HORSE SHOW
Society Lends Its Presence,
Doing Homage to Equine
AriStocratS.

With more horses competing for larger
prizes than ever before in the history
of Washington, the annual horse show
of the National Capital Horse Show AS
ISOLATION will begin tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock, when the class in thorough
bred stations is called From that hour
until nearly Z o'clock the show ring will
be full of thoroughbreds. Sixteen diff
fercnt events are on the program of
the first afternoon, including contests
for harness horses, saddle horses, gig
horses, hunters, polo ponies, and run
about horses.
AS last year parade of the Road
Drivers and Riders Association will in
augurate the show. This parade will
be led by teams driven by Congressman
Sherwood and Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
and P. v. DE Graw, past presidents OF
the association. The parade will start
at AS o'clock.
Society will be we'll represented in the
boxes when the show starts, the list of
boxholders including the following
names and groups:
Officers of Fort Myer, officers of
Washington Barracks, Miss Katherine
Elkins. Secretary of the Navy G. Won l..
Meyer, Meyer. Victor @ Mather, Philadelphia
of War II. L. stimson, w. II. pykman,
Attorney General George w. Wicker
sham, Mrs. e; 3. Wood. Mrs; C.. G.
dan, George o. Totten, jr., J. William
Henry, Col. r. NJ. Thompson, Edward
McLesn. T. r, Gaff. Major Henry T.
Allen, Archibald Barl1ley. Wayne, Pa.
Walter D. Denegre, Mrs. w. Sinclair
Bowen, Gen. James A. Buchanan, SEN
ator George Peabody Wetmore,- Mrs
J. T. Mann, Gen. Leonard Wood, Horace
Legare. Joseph f. Thropp, Senator c
w Watson, H. L. Pierce, Senator II. e
Iippitt, Gen. John A. Johnston, Mrs
NJ. NJ. Evans, Montgomery Blair. Mrs
1iendley Smith, Mrs. Cleveland Perkins
e. T. Stotesbury, Mrs. Walter Tucker
man. and Frank Walter.
All Horses Are Here.
All the $50 horses imported for the
show care now in Washington, among
those coming this morning being the
roadsters which E. T. Stotesbury. o1
Philadelphia, has entered, and which
are generally expected to win in tho
general roadster class. Among the
green hunters, visitors at the horse
show grounds today showed particular
interest in Overall, the jumper. en-
hounds of the keswick (Va.) Hunt, anc
which is reputed to have broken
world record by jump of thlrty-thre'
feet over bars set at four and hal
feet
Considerable handsome plate is of
fered, besides the cash prizes, at thi
years show. and officers OF Fort Myer
Camp Oglethorpe, Ga, and of this cit.
+. NJ. Thompson, president of the hors
show, and Major Austin Wadswortl
for the best heavy and lightweight
chargers shown. Other cup donors ar
Edward E. Mclean, John II. Magrudel
and F. T. Smith. besides the Rider an
Driver, which has cup up for the bes
park and saddle horse.
Many Jumpers Entered.
No end of jumpers will be seen a
this years horse show. In the free-for
all jumping contest, which comes earl
on the Thursday afternoon program
fifty horses will be put at the bars an
the same number will be seen com
peting in the handicap jump Friday af
ternoon. The show will begin at
o'clock each afternoon. and on Satur
day there will be u morning program
beginning at 10 o'clock. Band concert
each afternoon are announced by tn
management.
The list of events for the opening
day, tomorrow, is as follows;
2 p. m:-Class. l, thoroughbred stal
chargers. II entries. 2:2o-Class II
novice harness horses, IL ent:e2
24G-Class %, novice sad lie horses
25 entries. 3-Class 20, pairs, road
sters. entries. 3:10-Class IL, movie
harness horses, entries. 3:20-Class
delivery wagons, Il entries. 3:35-
Glass "a, pairs. hunters. "a entries
4:05-Class II. gig horses, entries
4:16--Class 45, polo ponies, IL en-
tries. 4:25-Class 90. saddle horses
10 entries. 4:45-Class IA, runabou
horses, 6 entries. 5-Class 4S, gree
hunters, IS entries. 5:25-Class 5t
local hunters, 18 entries. 6-Clas
3s-A, park hacks, 10 entries. 6:2O-
Glass Is, gig horses, entries.