The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27
SIXTY NEWCOMERS
ENTER HORSE SHOW
James w. Gerard Among Ex-
hibitors for First Time in
Coming Garden Classic.
WOMEN ARE PROMINENT

Sixty new exhibitors for the National
Horse Show. beginning November IL in
Madison Square Garden, bear witness
to the way in which the owners Of fine
horses all over the United States and
Canada have backed UP the patriotic
action of the association in giving TO the
American Red Cross the entire gross
receipts Of Its thirty-third annual exhibit
ton. The list of LOO entries made
public yesterday shows that horses are
coming from as far away as oregon,
while New England, the South and the
middle West are sending their best
saddle and harness horses. hunters and
ponies to compete for the blue ribbons
and the gold and silver trophies which
30 with them.
Conspicuous among the new exhibitors
is James w. Gerard, formerly Justice Of
the Supreme Court Of New York and
afterward Ambassador to Germany
Judge Gerard is a breeder of saddle
horses as we'll as daily rider in Cen
trail Park, and the brown marc Virginia
Girl that he has entered in four saddle
classes is one of his own rearing and
| training.
From All Over Country.
which owners everywhere set upon bit
OF blue ribbon won at this oldest and
greatest Of American horse shows Ia seen
| In the entry made by Miss Helen W.
Farrell OF Portland, Ore. She Is going
to send her four-year-old chestnut mare
Sunshine Grace clear across the conti-
nent tn compete with Judge Gerard 8
Virginia Girl. Miss Marion du Points
Checkmate from Virginia, Mrs. II. J.
Oh So Do, lee
Isabella Wanamaker's Cherrystone and
Miss Constance Vauclains Kismet from
Pennsylvania, Mrs j. s. Sylvester's Gay
Field from Massachusetts, Mrs. Walter
H. Hanley's Driftwood Blaze from Rhode
| Island. Miss Dorothy Dillons Oh, Boy,
Miss Clara Il. Pecks Wampum, Miss
| Alice Dodsworth's Thus and Miss Mary
Duckworth's Clitheroe from New Jer-
sey Miss Helen Jackson Pages Hazel
Young from Long Island and a lot, OF
other local saddle horses.
The prominence OF women exhibitors
| In nearly every section OF the horse show
is remarkable even for war time. and
Alfred r. Maclay, chairman of the as
sociation's executive committee, said
| yesterday it was foregone conclusion
that more OF them would ride and drive
| than at any horse show ever held in
Madison Square Garden or elsewhere.
In some of the saddle classes they out
number the men four to one. which is a
| complete reversal OF their representation
| only n few years ago.
In the hunter classes also women OF
society who follow the hounds are unusu-
ally we'll represented. although 1t is only
a few seasons since none save profess
SIGNALS essayed the rather hazardous
feat of riding over the jumps at the
| Garden.
Becky Lanfer TO Ride.
This year a twelve year old school
girl, Becky Lanier, is very likely to he
one OF the star equestriennes. At the
Newport Horse Show in August the
pretty little maid sent her fathers Ct
gantic thoroughbred hunter Boiling and
her own favorite and namesake Becky
soaring over the rails in such perfect
style as to win both the championship
and the reserve championship in COM
petition with a host of grown mp anna
tours and professionals of both sexes.
Many veteran horsemen consider her to
be the equal OF any rider yet seen. She
IS the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs Charles
d. Lanier OF Greenwich and New York.
Mrs. T.. II. earle who was Miss Mar
garet Thorne, DAUGHTER of OakleiEh
Thorne of Thornedale, IN Duchess
county. will be one OF tho leading "N-
| the competitions for women will meet
such riders as Mrs. +. $ Won Stadc,
who was Miss Kathryn Steele; Miss
Elesnora Sears OF Boston. Miss Con-
| stance Nauclain and Mrs. Isaac Clothier
OF Philadelphia, Miss Ida l.. Fletmann
OF New York and numerous other noted
horseWomen of the hunting set.
True to her reputation as the "all
roundest" sportswoman In the country.
Miss Sears is this year. for the first
| time. exhibiting hunters. saddle horses.
| hackneys. harness horses and ponies, all
of which she rides or drives. Since la
season, when her stable comprised only
one saddle horse and two or three jump
ers she has purchased fully a score OF
prize winners and prospects in Eng
| land and America and now has a string
scarcely second to that of Judge William
II. Moore. the largest exhibitor Of the
| Horse Show.