Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-19
AMERICAN HORSES
|. At OLYMPIA SHOW
Royalty and Titled Society
World of London Will
] Acclaim Winners.

LONDON, June 19.-London's social
world is agog this afternoon over the
opening of the seventh annual inter-
national horse show at the Olympia
All horse shows of former years are
eclipsed in the elegance of setting and
the number of entrants in three
classes, which the list, includes.
No small part in the show is being
taken by Americans, who have come
to be important personages in the an
nual event Judge William H. Moore
has string of forty blooded Ameri-
can steeds entered in the harness
classes, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt is
showing some beauties in the driving
and coaching classes. Edward B,
Mclean. the noted horseman from
Washington, has seven entries, in
Guiding Nala, the blue ribbon winner
in the American heavy harness class
and Indian Flower, the champion
saddler.
S65,OOO Cash Prizes.
The directors of the International
Horse Show Association, with Lord
Lonsdale at their head, have spared
no expense in staging the greatest
event in the annals of horsedom. The
cost of putting on the show totals
over $500 of which $4,000 will be
given out in cash prizes.
The huge arena at Olympia has
been beautifully decorated, flowers
forming the most prominent part of
the decorative scheme. The side walls
are completely covered with high
of xxft1 iala
of the same flowers are suspended.
The ceiling of the halls has been COW
cred with a canopy of blue-green
silk, which takes on the hue and
simmer of a summer sky, when the
lights are turned on. The arena has
been turfed, and there are no fixed
barriers or water jumps, contrary to
the annual custom. All the hedges,
gates and flower beds used in the
jumping events are portable and can
be removed, leaving the arena clear
for the harness classes.
King George is a patron of the
horse show and is expected to at
tend on several days before the clos
ing of the show on July 1. Some of
the most prominent men in England
are on the board of directors Lord
Lonsdale is president and Lord
Redeadale and Sir Gilbert Greenall
are members of the board. The d.
rectors from the United States are
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Judge William
H. Moore, Colonel Lawrence Jones
and E. Stotesbury. There are also
three Canadian directors and three
French directors. The entrants in the
various classes include thirteen ma
tions, England, the United States,
Canada, France, Germany, Norway,
Sweden, Russia, Holland Belgium,
Portugal Denmark and Italy.
Americans Cup Donors.
In the list of donors of cups for
this year show, the names of many
prominent Americans appear. Alfred
G. Vanderbilt has donated three cups,
Colonel Lawrence Jones, of Kentucky,
two; James Hazen Hyde, William H.
Moore and e. 7. Stotesbury, each one.
The Harkaway Hunt Club, of Pitts
burgh, has donated a silver cup for
the ladies' hunt class, and the Ma
tional Horse Show Association of
America, which holds it's annual show
in New York, has presented cup for
tandems.
The judges elected for the various
events include Alfred G. Vanderbilt
and Judge William H. Moore as rep
resentatives of the United States.