New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Thoroughbred
/ Horses Share
! Show Honors
Harness Animals Are Called
Finest Collection Seen i'm
Exhibition Ring During
the Last Thirty Years
Saddle Contest Is Close
Gen. Pershing Refuses to
Judge Military Classes,
but Pats Officer ON Back
By Harriette Underhill

by Fiarriettc Underhill
Doesn't it remind you Of Jerome
Avenue!" old horsemen exclaimed at
the Garden yesterday. Now, to the
layman there Is nothing about Madi-
son Square Garden that suggests
Jerome Avenue. so we went to the old
est horseman we know and said, "Why
is the Garden like jerome Avenue ?"
He instantly replied. "Why, look at
those horses out there!" We looked
and saw in the ring more than q dozen
of the finest lot of heavy harness
horses you ever looked at. "Thats the
way Jerome Avenue used to look" he
said, when W. X. Vanderbilt, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, frank Work and a
lot OF others used to drive up there
every afternoon. That's the best col
lection I've seen in the ring for thirty
years" which sounds encouraging
The horses were in groups of three
and were owned by William Moore,
Loula Long Combs, r. Lawrence
Smith, John L. Bushnell, A. w. Atkin-
son and Franklin B. Jourdan. The en-
tries were shown in single harness and
Mrs. Combs sat behind Animation, the
pride of the clan. The other two
4.
Mrs. Combs has the names of all of
her horses ending in "tion." The two
from her stable were first choice with
the judges, and William Moore was
second with his team of bays. Mr..
Bushnell had The Whip, The Gov
ernor and June Maid and won the
yellow ribbon. r. Lawrence Smith 8
team took the H. c.
Judging of Thoroughbreds
Yesterday was thoroughbred day and
many of the classes were devoted to
the judging of these animals. The
program for the day opened with the
well-known expert ]. E. Madden in the
ring to place the ribbons on seven
thoroug hbred stations suitable to i'm
prove the breed of horses in general.
There was wonderful lot for him to
pass judgment on and it took him a
long time to decide that the blue be-
longed on the bride of Chief Lally.
which the Jockey Club has had sta
toned at Troop X, headquarters Of the
New York State Constabulary at White
Plains.
Second award went to the fine horse
Ganadore, shown by the American Re-
mount Association. The yellow also
went to the government with the big
strapping brown stallion, Greek Legend
Glasses for yearlings and two-year-
olds, suitable to become saddle horses
and hunters, brought out fine lot
Harvey Ladew, Samuel Willets and
John Bowman had entries in these
classes. Mr.. Ladew's string were all by
the late Jockey CluU bureau sire,
Fauntleroy, with Irish and American
half-bred dams. Samuel Willets showed
q fine Ally Of the hunter type, called
Betty Blue, by Celt-Log stilia.
Bobolink a Winner
In the champion class for horses,
suitable to become hunters, to be
shown over two fences, six feet three
a good one called Boholink was the
winner. This is SD endid chestnut
Relding which Jack Mcdonald bought
Just before the national entries closed.
He won the Macy Willets Cup, de-
feating Goldfinder, from the Quansett
Farm.
In one corner of the Garden there Is
q plain leather case containing an old
fashioned riding whip once owned by
Charles Dickens. The Spur purchased
it and offer it as trophy or ladies'
champion saddle horses of any size.
Any which had taken blue or red in
the saddle classes might compete
There were four entries, Janice Lig-
gifts Bohemian Actress, Ivy Maddi-
sons Myopia, Katharine Todd's Sceptre
and Mrs. Walter Hanley's Driftwood
Blaze Little Sceptre is & wonder; SO
is Driftwood Blaze The spectators
liked Sceptre. Lady Beck, one of the
judges, agreed with them. The other
judge, Henry McNair, from Chicago,
liked Driftwood Blaze. When Judges
disagree who shall decide? The an
swer in this case was Lieutenant-Col-
onel Feline, from Alberta. He was
called in and he sided with Mr.. Nc
Nair.
Angel Child Wins Crowd
little Miss Tod. a remarkable horse
She cannot be more than ten years old,
and she is what Is called ian angel
child. The crowd was all with her,
and 1t was q sore disappointment to
them when her ribbon was the re-
serve. Mrs. Hanley rode Driftwood
Blaze, and she looked particularly
stunning. Lady Beck, it was said. re-
fused to sign the judges slip with the
decision giving the championship to
Driftwood Blaze.
General Pershing was invited to
but he refused, although he was in the
ring while they were being judged
Ringmaster Allen has handsome
young son who is still wearing the
olive drab, and he came in the ring
with one of the machine gun teams
while General Pershiug was there. The
General recognized him and went up
and shook hands with him and patted
him on the back.
Glass Uhoroughbreds running horses
IN hand, stallion. three years or over)--
First. Chief Lally. b. s.. owner. Troop X.
New York state Troopers. second, Cana
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