New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
VANDERBILT SALE
SHOWS THE HORSE
IS STILL KING
FanCierS Look Forward to
Successful Show III
Autumn.
NEW INTEREST IN ALL
PARTS OF COUNTRY
Exhibition at Long Branch VIII
See First of Brady Lot
Shown in Ring.

! When James Cox Brady, sol Of the
( late Anthony n. Brady, stepped into ;he
ring and paid s9,525 for three harness
/ horses and pony at the dispersal
sale of Alfred C.. Vanderbilts stable
/ horse fanciers were reminded OF the
/ old saying that whenever one exhibit
tor drops out there are always two new
ones ready to take his place.
As president of the National Horse
| Show Association, leader in coach
ing on both sides of the Atlantic and
generous patron of all amateur sports
in which the harness horse figured,
| Mr.. Vanderbilt was justly regarded as
ole of the foremost American horse
fanciers, and il was natural that WREN
he lost his life on the Lusitahia Their"
was some fear of crisis in the af-
fairs of New York's fashionable ex-
kibition at Madison Square Garden
and in the consequences of his absence
as an exhibitor at many other Ameri-
can horse shows.
But Judge William II. Moore and
others met the situation at the Garden
by promptly purchasing Mr.. Wander
bits stock and electng K. 7. Stotes-
bury. head Of the Philadelphia bank
ing house of Drexel, Morgan & Co..
to succeed him as president. So, too,
when Mr.. Vanderbilts horses were
thrown on the market fresh recruits
came forward and bought all the best
ones to exhibit under new ownership
at the Garden next November
In this instance there were literally
two new exhibitors TO take the place OF
the one whose untimely death has oc-
casioned worldwide regret among
horsemen. for August A. Busch, OF 81
Louis, was a contending bidder lot
every horse purchased by Mr.. BRADY,
and was himself the successful bidder
for Mr.. Vanderbilts favorite harness
mare. Lady Marley, an imported Eng
lish hackney that came out IN the
novice class at Newport last season
and afterward won blue ribbons at
Brockton, White Plains and st. LOUIS:
She is a daughter of Edemynag, sire oil
Judge Moore's international champion
Lady Seaton. Mr.. Busch has been
elected president of the new st. Louis
Horse Show Society, and II IS sald
that he is going to form strong
stable of high steppers for eXhio',
ton at Madison Square Garden ana
other leading shows. Besides, Lazy
Marley. lie bought the recently I'M
ported mare Melbourne Lady Ursula
by Polonius, for 81 $50, and a prom
ising foui -year-old, Stamford Line;
bred by Mr. Vanderbilt and counted
or by him to do something sensational
at this years horse show.
Mr. Brady exhibited a few hunters
last fall at the Morristown Fle 4
Clubs local show, but it was not I'M
til this season that he began to BUY
and show harness horses and PONIES
His first notable purchase was Irving
ton Model. a bantam hackney high
stopper. for which he paid $4,000 to
W. D. Henry, a wealthy Pittsburgh
pony breeder, a few months ago. ms
little bay stallion-he is only l32
hands high-swept the ring at the
Devon Horse Show in May, beating
the noted English pony Horace, jr,
champion Of the last National Horse
Show. Encouraged by his success, Mr.
Brady paid a long price at Devon LOT
the recently imported English mare.
Peacock Sensation, and Primrose OF
Whitegate. winners at the last In
tcrnational Horse Show at London
These and his more recent pur-
chases at the Vanderbilt sale have
been entered at this weeks horse.
( show at Long Branch, y. j. Queen OF
Earth and Holyport Brunella, a PAIR
/ for which he paid $4,000 at the van
/ derbilt sale, are in the novice class,
never having been shown IN England
or America. They are beautiful niue
| browns, 14.3 hands high, by Matthias,
the sire of Clarence II. Mackay's Land
O. Burns and Judge Moore's Radiant.
/ the latter horse having been the grand
champion of the international snow
| For Preno, another little brown mare
| by Matthias, Mr.. Brady paid S2,Si5,
/ the top price of the Vanderbilt sale.
| He also bought for $500 the crack
pony Mel Valley Flame, purchased by
/ Mr.. Vanderbilt at the National Horse
| Show of 1912, when he won the cham
piOnship prize in harness there.
Charles f. Coke, Of Philadelphia,
who bid up to $500 for Flame, added
promising little mare to his stable
/ by the purchase of Lucera, chestnut
/ by Tiger Lille out OF old Lucille
: This one was bred by Mr.. Vanderbilt
I ana ncr OdIn was one OF lHt Iiot SH'
/ horses he ever owned. Mr.. Coke is
not exactly new exhibitor at the
horse shows, yet his first attempt 10
win a ribbon was only four years ago.
/ Since then. and particularly IN the
last year, he has assembled a stud OF
harness ponies that would be hard
TO beat, even in England Tlssington
Amity and Belle Melbourne, pair OF
bay mares, were called the best OF
/ their inches in England and were
winners at the international show.
They will be seen at Long Branch
this week. along with a lot OF others
from Mr.. Coxe's Willisbrook Farm.
Breeders of fine harness horses are
| feeling jubilant over the result OF the
recent sale. Nearly everybody thought
il would be slaughter, owing 10 the
fact that it was held in the middle
Of July. always the worst month OF
the year to sell harness horses. In
stead Of being failure. it was really
the most successful saie OF the kind
in five years in New York.
Thirty-three horses, many OF them
merely ordinary using horses as
they say in Kentucky to distinguish
them from show horses, brought S25,-
675. an average of S77S, while the
eighteen hackneys among them made
Slg.97O, an average OF $l.l0S. Ii pays
handsomely to raise horses at these
prices. and the men who are breeding
and showing believe il will nav still