New-York tribune., 1915-10-31
SOCIETY WOMEN
ENTER HORSES
FOR SHOW HERE
Animals Worth More than
a Million Dollars to Ap-
pear at the Garden.
HARNESS CLASSES
UNUSUALLY STRONG
Jumpers, Too, Will Be on Hard
to Compete for Valuable
Trophies Being Offered.

Horses valued at more than 81 900, 900
are speeding toward New York this
week from the four corners of the con-
tinent to compete for prizes worth
100000 at the National Horse Show,
which opens next Saturday in Madison
Square Garden. In the lis: of 300 en-
tries made public yesterday are Of
fcers' chargers from United States
army forts, at Fort Huachuca, on the
Mexican frontier, in Arizona; hackneys
from the province of Alberta, almost
half way to the Arctic Circle; Shetland
ponies now crossing the continent by
fast express from the horse show just
ended at the PanamaP Pacific EXposi-
tion in San Francisco; cavalry mounts
from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, and horses
of all sorts from other distant points.
Never has the Horse Show attracted
so many exhibitors from remote parts
of this country and Canada a striking
proof, incidentally, of the sentimental
value which owners everywhere set
upon a bit of blue ribbon won at this
oldest and greatest of American shows,
for in few cases can these distant ex-
hibitors hope to win enough money to
defray the heavy expense Of shipping
their horses hundreds, or even thou
sands, of miles to the show.
One of the surprising features of the
entry list is the strength of the har-
ness classes. This division will far
surpass anything seen in recent years,
practically every important stable in
the country being represented. Judge
William II. Moore. who owns the larg-
est and most valuable string OF show
horses in the world, heads the list with
something like seventy entries, but
closely following are j. Campbell
Thompson, James Cox Brady, Miss
Constance Vauclain and Miss Loula
Long. The latter is a daughter of the
Kansas City lumber king.
The prominence of women all
through the list of exhibitors is illus
trated by the fact that this year, for
those of the men in the famous Wal
dorf-Astoria Challenge Cup class, for
American bred hackney harness horses
Miss f.. Viau, of Montreal, Canada, who
won a leg on the trophy two years ago
entrants again this season. Mrs. Ed
just one entry in the show, but that
one. Lady Dilham. is "A host in herself.
Miss Isabella WanamakeI, of Phila-
delphia; Miss Clemence Crafts, daugh-
ter of Professor James Mason Crafts,
of Harvard University; Mrs. J. Macy
Willets, of New Marlboro, Mass; Mrs.
Herbert Wadsworth, of Geneseo, n. Y;
Mrs. John Howes Burton, of Cedar
hurst, l.. l.; Mrs. Philip A. Clark, Of
Newport; Miss Adele S. Colgate, whose
mother was the Countess of Straf-
ford; Miss Anne Ashton, of Philadel-
phia; Miss Marian du Pont, of Mont
pelier, Va; Mrs. Payne Whitney. who
exhibits her hunters and ponies in the
name of the Greentree Stable; Mrs.
Catherine Westinghouse Fletcher. Mrs.
j. {. Brady, who is daughter Of the
Earl of Limerick; Mrs. Frederick Lew
lsohn, of Westbury, l.. l.; Mrs. Harry
La Montague, also OF the Long Island
hunting colony; Mrs. William A. Leiber.
Of Bryn Mawr. Penn; Mrs. Barger Wal,
lach, the champion tennis player, and
Mrs. David Wagstatf, are among the
other women Of society who are show
ing their equine beauties and pets at
the Garden, and they are represented
all through the show, in classes for
trotters, hackneys, high stepping har-
ness horses, saddle horses, hunters and
ponies.
Jumping competitions are always
thrillers at the Garden and they have
wonderfully heavy entry, ranging
from sixty in the open class to thirty
and forty for competitions in which
only army officers may ride. The re-
newal of the Canadian Challenge Gun
by Sir Adam Beck. to replace his
original trophy. lost through the war
IN Europe, will have thirty odd contest.
ants. There is also a large entry in
the broad water jump for the cup pre-
sented by Robert A. Fairbairn. vice
president of the Horse Show Associa-
tion.
In the high jump, for the cup pre-
sented by Judge Moore, the list OF en-
tries is OF the highest quality ever
brought into the Garden ring. The list
includes Confidence, holder of the
worlds record; Skyscraper. winner of
this contest at the last National Horse
Show, and lot of other celebrities.
Daredevil Dick" Donnelly will have
the mount on several Of the connecting
horses.
In the classes for officers chargers
and cavalry horses, Uncle Sans pre-
paredness" is demonstrated by large
and notable list Of entries from both
the regular army and the National
Guard Of New York. New Jersev and