New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
Ireland Lays All Feuds Aside
Dublin Horse Show Week
British Army Officers and Rebels Rub Shoulders,
Careless for the Moment of Each Others Exist
ence, Intent Only Upon the More Important Ri
valry of Equine Race
But when all is said. it remains true

| But when all is said. it remains true
that the Dublin Horse Show is no
empty ceremony. 1t is one of the chief
means Of fostering the Irish horse
breeding industry, besides providing
occasion for a valuable display of
smaller industries and artistic crafts,
the exhibition of which is not the least
interesting feature of the show. Be-
fore the war enormous sums of money
flowed into Ireland from all parts o.
both hemisphercs for the purchase Of
Irish horses, in the fruits Of whose
excellence large classes Of the COM
munity shared. The show is the fore
most medium for the exhibition of the
best bloodstock which any country can
boast, and it has attained international
recognition as such, commanding the
parts of the world and spreading over
the globe the fame Of Ireland as
horse-breeding center.
Never has the Irish thoroughbred
filled more prominent position in
the racing world than at the present
time. Not only have all the principal
races in Ireland this season been won
by Irish bred animals, but the classic"
races of England and of France also
have been captured by Irish race
horses. But it is on the hunter class
principally depends, and this year 500
hunters, five years old and upward,
were assembled-a remarkable record
considering the wartime restrictions
on breeding
The premises of the Royal Dublin
Society, in which the show is held,
were occupied during the war for mill
tary purposes. and last years show
was adimittedly not up to prewar
standard. This year the show COM
mittee, which has been doing all in its
power since the termination of the
war to restore the show to its former
position as the greatest horse show in
the world, called upon all Irishmen to
rally to their support to insure the
success of the fixture. They coupled
their appeal with an expression of
their earnest desire that the same
good feeling which is always to be
found in the show ground may soon be
universal all over Ireland"
IT. would be easy to exaggerate the
political significance of the holding of
this years remarkably successful
morse show ITO pretend that Ireland's
troubles can be set at rest by the re-
VlVal OF the common allegiance of her
children to strrup and saddle would be
absurd" says the chief Unionist paper
in Dublin.
"Nevertheless," it proceeds, "the
solution surely must be nearer for an
ireland than can combine in a great
ana profitable undertaking which the
"noie world must see and appreciate"
Show Tribute to Pride
1t halls the success of the show. in
the midst of political and industrial
CRISIS, as a tribute to Irish patriotism.
ll.sh pride. Irish intelligence, the es-
sentlal sanity of the Irish people and
the persistence of those common in
st.ncts OF lrishmen which continue sue
ccsstully to surmount all barriers of
political partition.
Dublin Horse Show Week is not per-
haps the best medium through which
to gain a clear perspective of the Irish
many aspects of Irish life for the cos
mopolitan and casual assembly which
comes to worship at the shrine of the
irish horse 1t represents the national
love Of sport, the national genius for
certain forms of industry. the wealth
and variety Of the country's resources
and the national gift Of displaying all
these things with admirable taste and
feeling
1t represents, too, the good-fellow-
ship, the grace and charm, the har-
laonious prosperity which lie beneath
the stormy surface Of contemporary
Irish life. And those who come to see
toe greatest horse gathering in the
word-even if they cannot tell an
Arab from a Clydesdalc, and prefer the
jumping 10 the Judging have the dem
onatration before them that an under
taking of national and international
Importance can be conducted in a man
nor which meets with universal APP
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