The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-16
EQUINE HONORS FOR CHAMPIONS
 ENDS BIG SHOW
Closing Day at Garden Draws Vast Crowd of
 Witnesses.

witnesses.
 Equine champions were crowned yesterday at the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden. It was the last day of the exhibition and to see the titles awarded and to help the war work drive large crowds at- tended all three sessions. At the night session the seating capacity was not enough and hundreds were com pelled to stand around the ring.
 While the attendance during the week was not as large as last year it has not fallen far behind as to the gate receipts and there will be a handsome purse to turn over to the United War Work Campaign. For the success of the exhibition, Charles W. Smith, the secretary of the Ma tional Horse Show Association, gives most credit to the ladies' committee, of which Mrs. Arthur Iselin is chair man.
 "Its members worked hard and we'll" he said, land their efforts brought many thousands of dollars to the fund"
 MT. Smith said that next years ex- hibition will be held on the same dates and as it will be held on the armistice, 1t will be a Victory Horse Show" with the presence of Ameri- can and allied officers now in ser vice to add to the celebration an old time military flavor.
 William H. Moore carried off most honors during the week. His horses won twenty blues, nine reds and five yellows. Besides the ribbons his vic tories brought him seven cups, two medals and $750 in cash. The Smtthtown Hunt Cup was the feature of the night session. It is purely a sporting event. The condi- tions called for hunters to be ridden by bona fide members of recog- nized club over a miniature point to point course.
 In the ring were eight jumps al different heights, including post and rail, white slat board fence, brush and an in and out jump. The ob- ing pace and ridden in oouoie pIroeI The performance and style counted | 60 per cent, conformation 20 pel cent, and manners 20 per cent. For the coveted trophy more thar 1 a score of the best hunters in the country competed and the event fur. nished one of the best of the show After a keen contest the cup and 1 the blue went to Isaac H. Clothier
 Jr., of Philadelphia, on his chestnu l gelding King Daly. Louis K. Lig. | gett's Melchester was second. MT Clothier's Judge third and his Joll!
 Good Fellow fourth. The biggest surprise of the show
 came in the championship class fol
 harness and carriage horses for tht 1 F. Ambrose Clark cup. The judge!
 awarded premier honors to William
 H. Moore's Ruxton, but a vast ma
 jority of the spectators, which includ
 ed many prominent judges, though
 the honors should have gone to Mis-
 Constance Vauclain's champion, Tht 1 Whip.
 The Whip was at her best and il the opinion of experts showed ever
 better than she did last year for thu championship. And Miss vauclail ! 1n2QS n6T SI0p dlOIlS ld uilIGSSly Never once during the time she wa
 in the ring did she falter and her ac ktion throughout called for round af
 ter round of applause. But the judge for some unknown reason liked Rux
 ton best and gave The Whip the re
 serve.
 There were few surprises, and fl
 the opinion of experts the judge made few mistakes in handing dow
 the crowns.
 As was expected Driftwood Blaze
 the big brown gelding owned by Wal
 ter H. Hanley of Providence, was pro
 claimed king of the saddle horse:
 This beauty, which only an acciden
 prevented from going from Canad
 to France, with 9 troop of cavalr remounts, had won seven blues ear Her in the week.
 Miss Isabella Wanamaker's Cher ] rystone, ridden by his owner, was re serve.
 In the very next class MT. Hanle scored another championship. H } annexed this title with Twilight bay gelding, in the championshi event for saddle horses exceedin
 152. Twilight won the same honor last year, and yesterday he scene ) better than ever. Radiant, owne ) and ridden by Miss Eleanora Seal of Boston, was reserve.
 Miss Constance Vauclain of Phi , adelphia and her sister, Miss Patric , vauclain, each won a title, Miss Cor 2 stance won the champion cup L. o horses best suited to become hun 2 CTS her bay gelding Arbite, while Mi' ' Patrice carried off tttular hono1 3 among the ponies not exceeding ] 2 hands with her brown gelding Min J bus.
 9 The victory of Arbfte was expecte , but that scored by Nimbus was mol ? or less of a surprise. In previol events Arbite won, and when he WE ! put to the test in the steIfar eve1 . over bars three feet six inches | 2 performed faultlessly. With Nimbl { it was different. Just prior to h s titu1ar victory he was beaten by Ru 4 per Calypso, and many in the aud