The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-20
PURE BRED ARABS
LINE UP IN GARDEN
Kings and Queens of Desert
With Pedigrees a Mile Long
Compete for Ribbons.
DRrFTWOOD BLAZE WINS
Takes Blue Over Sceptre, b.
ahemian Actress and Myopia
i'm Saddle Horse Glass.
ny GURNEY c. CUE.


Seven calm eyed mares stood in the
bark ring at the Horse Show In
olson Square Garden yesterday and
.arded the great amphitheatre OF
human faces banked up all about them
with tranquil contempt. They could
afford to look down on the mere men
and women and all the other horses, for
they were the only true aristocrats In
sight Every one of the seven could
boast of the purest blood of Arabia
Deserta and of family archives going
back to a thousand years before the first
thoroughbred racehorse was foaled in
Britain.
mot even the all conquering Man o.
War could have felt exalted in the
,resence of these unsullied Arabians.
or in the purest Of thoroughbred pedi-
rees, English as well as American.
here are lines which end in pebeian
mes unknown to true arstocrats of
equine race To paraphrase the pet
wing of John l.. Madden who judged
10Th racehorses and Arabs. all blood
IN the thoroughbred that is not Arabian,
spd there is quite bit of it, is scrub"
Those who think that nothing good
-an come from aristocrats must have
'onnd food for meditation in looking
bon Moan and Ramla, two of the
lzellelike little mares exhibited by
r. Brown of Berlin, n H, who is
resident OF the Arabian Horse Club Of
merica Neither of them Is quite
fteen hands high and neither weighs
4iore than about 500 pounds. Both were
starters in the 800 mile endurance test
for cavalry horses recently held in New
England. where they had to carry 245
potinds on their backs over rough
country roads. Moan. a trim, nervy
lttlo chestnut, went through to the
finish--one of ten out of more than
thirty that started When put on the
scales after the race it was found that
sfe,i chad carried more than thirty per
cent of her own weight in this search
ing. test of stamina. Ramla won the
race in 1919. This year she went half
WAY i'm fine fettlc. but when her equine
pal, Rustem Bey parted company with
hers Mt that point she fretted so much
that she wore herself out and was
stopped within thirty miles Of the goal.
NV a. Blue Goes to GuInare.
Mr. Madden passed by both of these
noupareil performers in awarding the
blue ribbon. He gave ii to the gray
mare Gunarc. also owned by Mr.. Brown,
and placed Moan second and Ramla
third The same exhibitor won the class
for--Arabiaa stations with the fve-year-
old ch IS nut horse Sargon. Though
Judged as breeding stock, both stations
and mares were shown under saddle.
Before the Arabians came into the
ring. there were two classes for thor
7oughbred stations, one lot being Judged
as. ,sires of race horses and the other
for"their suitability In improving the
common stock Of the country. Chief
LaIp. q big bay son Of King James. won
the latter class, while Greek Legend. an
imported horse that was third here. took
the blue in the other class Chief Lally
beiug second.
Something new i'm championships in
terested the fox hunting set at the morn
ingNsession. It was for the best horse
suitable TO become hunter, and brought
together all winners Of first or second
prizes In such classes. Friends of Mrs.
R.1Ff. Halsted were delighted to see this
new exhibitor at the Garden carry off
the prize Her winner was Bobolink. n
grand four-year-od chestnut gelding,
purchased only few weeks ago from
r.ouis n Liggett Of Boston. He had
previously qualified by winning the inid-
dleweight class Jack Mcdonald. who
selected him for Mrs. Halsted rode him
i,rfthese classes. but Mrs. Halsted her
sclfd rode the green four-year-oll over
the Jumps in the class for pairs Of hunt
ers,t
Saddle horse enthusiasts, and the
Garden was full of them. thought they
saw Lady Beck and Harry McNair vir-
tualIy decide the lightweight champion
shin at the afternoon show. The test
came in competition for lady's riding
whip once owned by Charles Dickens
and presented by him to a friend in Eng
lana 1t was offered by the publisher
Of the spur as a prize for the best
ladies saddle horse in the show, first
and second prize winners I'm all ladies
classes being eligible TO compete. The
four that responded TO the bugle call
made ND the most select and interesting
Geld of the week. There were Miss
1anice Liggetts champion or last season
bohemian Actress: Miss Ivy n. Maddi-
sons converted hunter Myopia, re-
peated winner THE week: Mrs. Walter
RI Hanley's own Driftwood Blaze, a
champion of champions. and little Miss
Katherine Kennedy Tod's famous Eng
Iisn mare Sceptre, whose winning record
al The National Horse Show has never
been surpassed
tH Driftwood Blaze i'm Form.
Roth Driftwood Blaze and Sceptre
we're unbeaten at the Garden this sea-
son when they entered the ring. and OF
course It came down at last 70 duel
between these two. Mrs. Hanley. who
as Miss Ellen Rasmussen was famous
professional rider before her marriage
seemed 10 give Driftwood Blaze n great
advantage. hut little Miss Tod, scarcely
10 Years old rose to the occasion and
handled the high melted English marc
a. successfully as Jimmy Schweigcr
himself could have done. II was such
close thing that the judges had the
horses stripped before awarding the
prize, which finally fell to Driftwood
Ptasc. That Sceptre or her youthful
rider had as many admirers as the
winner was made plain by the ringing
cheers and applause as they left TIE
ring with the reserve ribbon.
M hour before this class was judged
,Irsf, fTanlcy rode Driftwood Blaze TO
fctory IN competition for the Bltmore
'haliengc Cup. leg on which he had
oinat the Horse show OF 1918 Sceptro
as for some reason not entered in
II class. bur last years winner, Radi-
cas- we'll as last years champion and
~ 'sV' noted horses, came out
feat by the brown geld
~. fRky star led to his dis
IN drove Of Canadian war
tcw years ago and thus -aved
career IN the show ring.
4 after the whip had been
ady Beck differed with
Age. Harry McNair. as
merits OF Driftwood
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