The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
HORSE SHOW WEEK
is HERE ONCE MORE
blight nntlook for Big EXhi-
bition Which Opens To-mor-
row at the Garden.
nv Quincy G. CUE.


everybody in the horse world is looking
forward TO a week full of interest at
Madison Square Garden. With more
than a score of military numbers on
the long programme. the thirty fifth
annual exhibition. which opens at ten
DEL elk tomorrow morning, will have
martial aspect altogether more pro-
nounced than any in past years. Major
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., who organized the
great military horse show held by the
American army of occupation in Ger
many about two years ago. is response
Bile for this bold departure in the Ma
ticnal Horse Show. of which he is now
one of the directors. and he has car
ried out the project so successfully
that the Garden this week will be the
rendezvous for the largest assemblage
of army horsemen, horses and equip
ment ever seen at a similar exhibition
in America. Artillery teams with the
big guns behind them will hold the
tanbark for the first time and divide
the .plaud,ts with the dashing cavalry
men Cen Pershing has four horses
entered in the name of the Headquar-
tiers Stables. General of the Armies,
Washington, d. c., and will be among
the distinguished officers in attendance
For the opening day there are four
military classes on the card, and one
of these, competition of cavalry
horses for the Lewis f. Waring Cup
will open the show. At o'clock in
the afternoon the big six horse gun
teams will be seen for the first time;
at o'clock or a little later fifty-four
jumpers ridden by army OFFICERS IN
uniform will compete for Judge William
II. Moores Cup, and at $3.50 in the even
A hA Axgh a.
chine gun carts and horses. The COM
petition of the artillery teams for the
Lewis Morris Cup is set for Friday
afternoon at o'clock. With eight
teams entered, this class bids fair to be
one of the features of the week In the
military section of the show. The COM
petition of the machine gun teams,
seven in number, will take place on
Saturday morning at IL O'Clock, the
prize being cup offered by j. Ford
Johnson, Jr.
The first of the saddle and hunter
classes on to-morrow's programme DIS
close the strength of the entry list III
these divisions of the prize list. sixty
eight jumpers have been entered IN the
opening event, while the novice class TOT
saddle horses not exceeding 15.2 hands,
TO be Judged at 3 o'clock in the AFTER
noon. has twenty-three prospective com
petitors In the other novice sauule
class. for horses exceeding 15.2 hands
which opens the evening exhibition
there are twenty-nine entries, and in the
class for ladies' saddle horses exceeding
152 which comes later in the evening,
tyventv-four are eligible to compete,
while the class for ladies' hunters, also
on Monday evenings programme mas
twenty entries.
The two classes for ladies' saddle
horses will bring out the pick or the en-
tries in this division of the show. IN
the one for larger horses are such VIM
pers as Mss Alice A. Dodsworth's Thus,
Mrs. Leslie e. Kieffer's Grand Parade
Miss Leah Gilman Radiant Miss lsa-
bella Wanamaker's Dark Flower. Miss
cara S. Peck's Winona. MISS Janice
Liggett's Meals King, Miss Miriam a.
LEWIS Prince Edward, formerly star
Mrs Charles F. Hubbs's Thistledowh'
Mrs. j Macy Willets's Triggers, MISS
Ivy D. Maddison's Myopia. Mrs. Herbert
L. Camps Joan, Mrs. F. b. Hopeweus
Music. David r. Matack's The Answer,
Joseph ]. Murphy's Whppoorwill. Sam
uel Keller Jacobs's Santa B'rbara ana
frank Donovan's Doctor Russell. Among
the prominent ones in the smaller class
are Driftwood Blaze, now entered py
Mrs. Walter II. Hanley, who bid him
Off for $4,000 at Mr.. Hanleys sale
few weeks ago; Twilight Hour the
champion of last season at the Garden
entered by. II. b. Wick of Cleveland ;
Glennie Dean. the mare that beat Ra-
diant, Checkmate and others Tor the
championship at Syracuse, entered by
Arthur r Hopkins, a new exhibitor at
the Garden: Mrs. Irene Castle Tremans
Iightnin', Mrs. j. A. p RamsdeTs van
itv. Miss Alice Goods Vanity Box John
#. Spratleys Water Boy, Miss Peck
Allah and Miss Wanamaker's Cherry
stone.
Novice classes for harness horses are
not so we'll filled as the saddle classes
are. but they will bring out some stun
ming young high steppers from the
stables of Judge Moore. Mrs. Loula Long
Combs of Kansas City, Mrs. Joseph ;.
Sylvester of Boston, Miss Wanamaker,
Miss Amy f. DUPONT of Wilmington
Mrs j. X Dering, O.. w. Lehman ana
y. IT, Lehman, all of Chicago: John L.
Bushnell of Springfield. Ohio; A. W.
Atkinson of Camden, r. Lawrence
Smith Of Smithtown. L. L., and Franklin
Il. Jourdan of Brooklyn. Under the
rules governing the Garden show any
horse is q novice that has not won there
or at the London international. and this
will enable Mrs Combs to compete with
her chestnut Canadian mare. Aniina-
tion. champion at Rochester and SYRIA
cuse. and grand champion at Springfield.
w. d. Grand, who judged her at the last
named show. says he considers her to
be the best harness horse he has seen
since Forest King. The only fault yet
found with her is that she goes a little
wide behind but for conformation, quail
itv, style and all around action she is
truly phenomenal" as the lamented
FATTY Bates used to say OF srch cl'nkers
as Coxey and The Whlrl of the Town.
Western exhibitors have given tho
show better support than for many years
mast, not only in the harness division
hut in saddle and hunter classes as well
Mrs. Combs has not been here since
1915. Mrs Dering, the two Messrs. Leh-
man and Harry Newman, of the Chicago
contingent. are all new exhibitors at the
Garden while Mrs. Francis S. Peabody
of Hinsdale. ILL.,, who Is showing a big
string OF hunters. was last here In 1918,
when Red Heart and Great Heart won
both OF the high jumping competitions
for her stable John l.. Bushnell. who
now owns The Whip and other cham
MONS. has missed the last two shows. bit
Is here to try again for the Sir James
CnaIlenge Cup FOR gig horses. on which
he won a leg with The Governor back
IN 1915.