The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
TIMELY GOSSIP
OF HORSE SHOWS
No Encouragement for Breed
ers in Saddle Awards at Gar
den, Kentuekian Says.
BY GURNEY C. CUE.

BY inviting a Canadian votary of fox
hunting, a French army officer and
western dealer In all sorts OF horses
To- judge saddle classes at Madison
square Garden this year, the National
Horse Show Association contributed to
tsis conrusic-. already existing in this
division of the leading American show,
sid left exhibitors up in the air a little
disher than usual as to what constf-
tutes a riding horse of the American
type. If there is any such animal The
most important decisions of the week
were made by divided judiciary The
horse that won the small championship
last year was third in the only class
in which he was shown, yet he was sold
after this reverse for what is said to
have been the highest price on record
for a saddle horse. The winner of the
large championship in 1919 received the
reserve ribbon this year. but was beaten
for the tricolor by horse of very diff
ferent type, after the referee had been
called in to cast the deciding vote.
When the show was over Robert r.
Moreland made this comment on the
awards of the week: II can see nothing
in the judging to encourage breeders in
Kentucky to go on producing fine sad
die horses Having sold both Twilight
pions of last year, Mr.. Moreland could
hardly be called an unbiased critic. yet
his opinion was shared by many disin-
terested horsemen, amateur and profess
sional Even some of the personal
friends of Herbert L. Camp thought the
Judges erred in placing his mare Joan
above Bohemian Actress in the cham
pionship class for horses over 1872
hands Harry McNair voted for the
-. T Nv I1alf cfn
for Joan, according to report, and when
Col. Feline was called in he turned the
decision in favor of the big chestnut
that was clipped and trimmed in imita-
= ton Of a hunter, and that had rather
more of the appearance and action of one
than of park saddle horse, though she
is strictly a saddle bred mare.
Mr.. Moreland had no criticism to make
about the Judging of Lady Beck and
Colonel Feline. He recognized the fact
that Joan was their type, while the more
stylish. higher finished, faster trotting
Bohemian Actress was not. His criticism
was aimed at the officials of the Ma
tional Horse Show Association. who
failed TO choose recognized American
saddle horse men or women to judge at
a National Horse Show. Though Mr..
McNar Is not a specialist in saddle
horses he has bought and sold so many
good ones and is such competent all
around horseman that his judgment oc-
casioned little criticism among opponents
OF th5 hunter type, or English type. or
whatever the term may be which best
signifies a saddle horse without much
style or trotting action.
On the executive committee OF the Ma
fional Horse Show Association. as now
constituted, the men who ride are mostly
those who ride to hounds or whose taste
and associations run to the hunter type
as distinguished from the park type, OF
the type In which beauty OF figure and
brilliancy of style and action are points
OF the first Importance, Unless 1t is
John NICE Bowman no out and out rep
resentative of the other school of horse
manship has place on the committee,
hence no one can consistently wonder
that so many hunting men are invited
TO Judge saddle horses, or that so many