St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-10-06
MANY HORSES
ENTERED IN ARMY
ENDURANCE RACE
Thoroughbred Morgans and
Arabians Entered In
5-Day Trip

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There are forty horses entered il
the great Army Endurance test rae
which starts next Monday morning
from Fort Ethan Allen ana ends al
Camp Devens Friday night.
| w. II. Brown Of Berlin, N. H., The
chairman of the committee OF ar
l4ngcmcnta, has, seven entries in
the list, all by Arabian sirc>
and most of the registered
Among them is R;mla, tho
! imported Arabian mare that won
the endurance race last year. driver
by A. W. Harris, the well known Chi,
ago banker. This year Mr.. Harri,
will ride his own half bred Arabian
dawn"
Another of Mr.. Browns entries i,
Halcyon, the thiltcen-year-old malG
atht won the the first informally con
Quoted endurance race in 1918. wh"r
in foal, and last year finished fourth
Others are Crabbett Park and Khe-
yra who were in the finish last year
and the Arabian mares Moan anu
Sargon.
The Morgan Horse Club Of which
E. A. Darling of East Burke is pre-
sident, and O: c. Stillman Of New
York is secretary propose to give
their Arabian neighbors It race 1oi
their money this year and have some
fine representatives in the lls,.
These horses have been in training
at Norwich University for several
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wich cadets in the race.
The thoroughbreds are to be rep
resented by two Kentucky horses,
Avil Watts and Lord of the Nursery,
owned by John +. Madden Of P..ila
delphia. These horses will be driven
by Lieut.. Edward H. Walter of St.
JohnsbuIy and Corp. p. c. ThwinG,
Norwich cadets
The Department of Agriculture 1t
Washington will be represented l.
the Morgan stallion Castor, driven a
Sgt. X. G. Allen of Norwich. This
is the horse that led the field last year
and might have been the winner if he
had not heen'such good feeder and
came to the finish with a temperature
higher than normal.
Joseph Fl. Choate of New York has
entered his thoroughbred horse Sun
fisher. Major Howard Nelson of
Darien, Conn, has another OF the
same type, and Warren Dcleno OF
New York will have two more fror,
his Diamond ranch in Wyoming.
There will be eight or ten rid rs
from the Norwich University and tha
list will be headed by Col. Frank
versity, who will idc his Arabian
charger kingfsher, the horse that dis
tinguished himself chasing Villa on
the Mexican border few years ago,
afterwards went to France with che
American army, and won second
honors in the race last year. Another
Norwich entry is the pony, bred by
Col. Spencer Borden of Fall River,
Mass, who bred K;ngfsher The
horse is Conlin, entered by Mrs.
Tompkins, wife of the Commandant
of Norwich
Other Norwich entries include
"Capt. Hurd," a thoroughbred from
the Diamond ranch in Arizona, driven
bv Capt. L. w. Hurdo "White Socks"
thoroughbred Morgan, driven by
Cadet ] w. Joslyn of Newport; "So!-
den Glow" thoroughbred Morgan,
driven by Sgt. F. G. Whelton;
"Queen," thoroughbred Morgan, dr. Y
en- bv Cadet T. H. Smith; and
"Lord Salisbury" thoroughbred Nor
gan, driven by Cadet E. N. Switzer.
These are picked for the feature hor-
ses in the race, but, as in politics, a
dark horse is always a possibility, and
in this race even probability.
The judges whose opinion VII de-
termine the award are Col. Henry
Leonard of the U. S. Army, Major
Charles A. Benton of New York, the
we'll known Morgan horse expert, and
Harry Worcester Smith, widely
known rider to hounds. These are
the officials as served last year,
The conditions and route OF inc
race are the same as last year. Inc
load is 245 pounds and the contest
ants are expected to make sixty miles
a day for the five days in not less
than nine or more than thirteen hours
inclusive of stops. A perfect speed
time record counts 40 points, q per-
feet feed score counts 10 points ana
condition at the finish makes up the
balance. =,
The st..rt is from Fort Ethan A.
len Monday morning, making North
field the first day, the second day Is
from Northfeld to st. Johnsbury,
with noon stops at Hardwick. From
Hardwick here the route isto Danvllie
North Danville to the Fair Grounds
The North Danville detour is neces-
sary in order to get in the necessary
sixty miles. The horses are due to ar,
rive in st. Johnsbury between and
6 o'clock in the evening. The third
day is from st. Johnsbury to White
River Junction; the third to Concord,
N. H., and the final day to Camp
Devens, a total of three hundred
miles.
Last year there were fourteen con-
testants when the race reached st.
Johnsbury. This year there will be
three score and even more and there
will be much interest aroused in the
race all along the route. Each driver
is expected to have full charge OF the
care of his mount, although a veternl-
arv and blacksmith and several gen
eral helpers will accompany the patty
to be on hand in case of accident or
chance makes their services necis-
ary.