The Washington herald., 1913-04-27
annual HORSE
SHOW AT POST
Officers and Soldiers at Fort
Myer to Hold Exhibition
This Week.
SOME CIVILIANS ENTER
Elimination Contests to Be Held Dur.
ing the First Two Days of
the Contest.

The officers and soldiers of Fort Myer
yesterday closed up preparations for the
fourth annual horse show of the post,
which will be held Monday. Tuesday.
and Wednesday. Inasmuch as there will
be number of civilian entrants from
Washington, it is safe to say that the
show will find favor with society of the
Capital. and will draw big crowds. As
a closing feature of the three days
programme, there will be a cross-country
ride, in which a number of Washing
toms fair equestriennes will compete
against the best riders of the post
The first day will be devoted entirely
to trying out the horses, sitting out
the animals for the fifteen events Of
the next two days. The judges will
work all day long Monday to get through
with this preliminary task, but on the
following two days the show will not
open until 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
Most of the events will be run off in the
riding hall of the post. II is there that
the different classes will be judged, but
there will be the cross-country run for
men and women on Wednesday, and a.
fiat race for soldiers. that will take
place outside. The race for the soldiers
probably will be the last thing on the
programme Tuesday afternoon. A cup
is offered in the soldiers class by the
Secretary of War.
Some of Features.
The opening feature of Tuesday
afternoon will be judging the re
mounts"-the horses received at the
post from the remount stations since
September Z, 1911. The second will
be military jumping for soldiers: that
is. there will be eight jumps not over
three feet four inches in height and
six feet in length. and they will be
without wings" the short fences or
dinarily used to guide the horse to
the jump
The. fourth event will be jumping in
pairs over eight jumps not over four
feet in heighth.
The Judging of children's ponies will
be the next IN this event the horses
are restricted to those not over four
tee@ hands and three inches high and
they must he driven by children not
more than fifteen years old. The ponies
will be shown at walk, trot, and
canter.
The officers Of the post will next
show polo ponies. the officers carrying
Inallets, and the horses being judged
for hardness and speed.
The officers will next exhibit their
chargers" horses especially picked and
trained for service in war. There will be
tests in mounting and dismounting. and
wheeling, the last condition being jump
ing a three-foot hedge
Potato Race n Feature.
The womans jump will bring out a
number Of the prominent horsewomen of
Washington society. The jumps will be
four feet in height. Military jumping for
officers will follow, this being under the
same conditions as set for the enlisted
men. The last event in the riding hall
Tuesday will be ''zynkhana," meaning
a potato race, performed with lances.
The term recently has been adopted by
the United States army from the vo-
cabulary of the British soldiers of India
This race will be open to men and wom-
tn. The potatoes are picked up by the
riders with !ances and dropped into the
baskets.
Il is probable that after this con-
Guiding event in the riding hall the fiat"
race for the soldiers will be held on the
parade grounds, or somewhere near the
post. In the fat race there are no OBJ
strUctions.
Wednesdays show will open with the
judging of soldiers chargers" the con-
ditions being the same as for officers.
The competition will be followed by the
soldiers jumps. There will be four
JUMPS Of brush, hurdle. stone wall, and
post aN rail fences. The officers
jumps viii be the next feature, the con-