The Natchitoches enterprise., 1913-02-27

'.C"ch Performance Scheduled by
Management
classification and prizo lists are out
announcing the Fort Worth Horse
Show. which opens the night Of March
lo. and closes March 10. The show
viii be held in connection with the
rat STOCK Show, as usual, but will not
open on the same date with the Fat
Stock exhibit.
In years previous 1t has been the
custom to start off with two big shows
together, but this year the Fat Stock
Snow will swing its doors open to the
public on Saturday, March s, and the
horse Show will not open until Mon
day night following.
But the Horse Show, which has be
come the one great society event in
IeXas, will be built along more ex-
tenSlVe lines the coming season than
ever before. The show in the sprins
or 1912 was the biggest and most com
plete exhibition of trained horses to
ever exhibit in the South, and already
the entries this year are such that the
management Is confident of the big
gest success in the history Of the
show.
The Horse Show ring has become n
great fashion attraction for the women
OF the United States, and Of late wears
come devotees of the ring The Fort
worth show has been an attraC tion f0r
the women exhibitors for several Years
and last year the competition WAS very
keen.
Miss Loula Long of Kansas City has
one OF the most famous string of blood
cd horses in the world. To her lot has
fallen some of the handSomcst prizes
ever awarded an exhibitor in the tan
bark ring. Her winnings at the Lon
don Horse Show, Chicago. Kansas
CITY, st. Louis and Madison Square
Garden have placed her in the front
rank of American horsewomen. King,
a brown Irotting stallion. has perhaps
won more Individual scores than any
other horse living. With this horse
Miss Long captured everything in
London. New York and other places.
King has always been a strong winner
at Fort Worth. The famous horse was
purchased by Miss Long in the Fort
Worth ring during the 1910 Horse
Show.
Last voar Miss Long came to the
Fort Worth Show with an in rcaseI
string. She had added TO her coach
and HackneE- -st47-fe. and for the first
time pEesfnted a young saddler that
has slncelWop laurcls wherever shown
Miss Long does ali hCT own ttril a :
and is considered to be master of
blooded horses.
Mrs. Julius Walsh, a Kentucky bred
woman, but now of New York. was
a contender in the 1872 show Her
string of drivers W on many first prizes
and at five different times defeated
some of the noted Long string II is
possible that Mrs. Walsh will again
appear in Fort Worth.
Resides these two women, Fort
Worth women will he seen driving in
the ring. There has been "A sprinkling
of women drivers for years. but the
1913 show will present the greatest ar
ray of all
The best stable in the South will
show in the ring ut the coliseum. and
this year will present the largest num-
hCr of Texas h0rsf since the beginning
Of the show. Tc4as breeders have
been adding To tnhir STABLES gradually
for the last few YEARS and only last
year some of the breeders who have
been constant exhibitors increased
their stables to considerable extent.
Blue blOoded horses from Kentucky
and the best stock in every section
of the South will compete. Many Fort
Worth horscmen are now training their
youngsters for the exhibition, and
nearly every Sunday the Fort Worth
Driving Clubs grounds are crowded
with drivers of every description. one
Fort Worth man, who has never he
fore exhibited in the show ring, is now
grooming & stable of six youngsters,
which he expects to be in shape to
bring about stiff competition in their
classes.
The fat horse exhibition for 1913 will
be bigger than ever before. The horse
business in the Southwest has been on
the UP grade during the last year and
a large number of the Eastern breed
ers are seeking favors in Texas The
management has the assurance of all
the d-time exhibitors, and at this
time has several applications for stall
room from new exhibitors.
The big stables Of Iowa. Missouri
and Ohio want to show IN Fort Worth
and the Fat Stock Show management
says that they will he given space il
new barns will have TO be built