New-York tribune., 1912-11-24
COACHING HORSES FALL
IN BIG ROAD RACE
Gilbert TayIor'S Four Pile Up
Twice on the Way from
Arrowhead Inn.
SCARE IN THE GARDEN
Emil seelig Wins Annual Event
and Cuts Ten Minutes Off
Record-Surprises in
the Judging.

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Even the Judging Of the champions
=, Madison Square Garden can never
raep the thoughts of the crowd away
from the coaching race from Arrow
head Inn. when closing day comes
round. And yesterday the race had
.vtra thrills; for not only did the
winning coach, owned by Emil Seelig,
.,ower the record by nearly ten minutes,
hut the fact that Gilbert Taylor's four
was so late in arriving led to all sorts
~ alarming rumors that the coach had
.,urned over and several persons had
been killed.
AS matter Of fact, Jack Kehoe,
+he driver Of this coach, had all sorts
of troubles, for his off leader slipped
twice on the slippery asphalt on Wash
anston Heights ard the near horse and
the wheelers went piling up on him.
No Messengers were injured.
The TAYLOR coach, ON which s. Pence
Taylor. w. Alston Twitty, Howard
Brown. John F. Flagg and Montague
Vorthley rode with the owner, did not
show up at the Garden until AIS
o'clock. and its story spread through
the crowd as rapidly as if a Jack
lRlyns had been crashing it out on a
wireless instrument. The spectators
,samed TO be more worried, however,
Than the passengers. for Jack" Kehoe
laughed and said "Oh, it's nothing"
The four had left the Inn at S:ol
N m and we're going along merrily'
when at the turn from Broadway into
t,55,h street one Of the leaders went
sprawling. and dragged down the three
other horses with him. The men on
aon Of the coach jumped OF and un-
thsrnessed the four and got them on
.,bAir feet one wheeler suffered a
hadly split hoof and the near leader
cast a hind shoe.
Horses Tangled in Harness.
At St. Nicholas avenue and 1Soth
street practically the same thing oc-
Cured again. But there was a longer
delay this time, for the horses were
well tangled in the harness, and, be-
sides q big crowd collected, and police
men had to shoe them away so the
coach could start.
II finally arrived at the Garden, a
fraction over twenty-four minutes be-
hind the Seelig team The coach did
not turn over in either accident, al
though before it's arrival it WAS pictured
as smashed to flinders by the roadside,
Ernest Fownes, Ron of Daddy"
Fownes, drove the Seelig coach away
from the Inn at 3 p. IN. sharp. The
noses Of his brown leaders poked into
the Garden door forty minutes and
forty seconds later. On the box beside
the driver WAS Paul Sorg, who made
the twelve miles in fifty minutes in
1910. the record up to yesterday. The
other passengers were George b.
Holmes, Edward Grifiths. John Gerken.
tw. 2. Dalton and H. D. Holloway
The horses anished fresh, and the
passengers said the lash was not used
during the entire trip. II there was
any movement in the whips hands as
he swung his winners around the ring
1T was not noticeable. Fownes might
have been driving a pony instead OF
four strong coach horses, for all the
effort il seemed TO require.
Mel Valley Flame Wins.
Tn. championships did not so as was
expected The opening GLASS Of tho
afternoon session was for ponies In
harness IN competition for the cham
pton cup presented by e. Won der Horst
Koch. Mel Valley Flame, which was
purchased by Alfred g. Vanderbilt for
10000. was easily the winner. and he
probably would have been had the ring
held every pony that ever wore a blue.
Mel Valley Cinder, owned by William
Foster, was chosen for the reserve.
Others in the ring were Czarina. Prin-
cess Cardiff, Donsy, Phosphorus and
Maid Of Irvinston
The judges had a surprise in store for
the rail birds in Class go. which called
for heavyweight saddle horses Most Of
them believed the championship would go
to George Won Karlowski's big, handsome
weight carrier Avoca, the victor OF a
hundred battles on the tan bark. Miss
Margaret Tompklns rode Miss Mona
Dunn's Grey Mist, and the big gray geld
Ing was really more impressive than he
has been since his advent in the Garden
His canter is perfection, but his trot is
nil, and thiS Is where he just misses
being Q great horPe. When the ribbons
were handed out the tri-color with the
BIT Of blue went to Godfrey Preece's Pan
aJ0a and the reserve TO Grey Mist. with
nothing at all for the good Avoca.
Next in the ring we're the lightweights,