The New York herald., 1921-04-17
TIMELY GOSSIP
OF HORSE SHOWS
Bumper List of Entries in Sad
die and Hunter Glasses for
Brooklyn and Durland's.
ny GURNEY @. CUE.

ny GURNEY @. CUE.
For the first time In the history OF tho
Brooklyn Horse Show It's harness classes
have this year failed to fill. Local owners
we're for some reason apathetic, and the
Philadelphia contingent failed TO respond
TO the 0 OF the Riding ana Driy-
ing Club leaving 1t no alternative but
90 declare OF tho competitions for high
xtsppars. Il was said yesterday that
Franklin 3. Jourdan and A W. AtlSin-
son vers tbs only one. who made en-
tr1ss. Indications thon were that next
sruy wou.d also be without harness
horssa. Saddle and hunter classes at
Doth shows reosived almost unexampled
supporS. swal,nE tho List OF entries for
1fockfyn to sons4htng like $50. which
y said 10 DO larger than last year. when
Jhs harness classes were fairly we'll
fllcd. In one jumping class there ars
nfty~three horses and In anothor forty
seven horses Tho exhibition VIII open on
Wednesday evening, continuing through
tfss week. with q matinee on Saturday.
Tia New York Spring Horse Show AZ
pus1andis is 10 begin on the following
Tuesday.
Pick OF the Basket and Dainty Mss,
winners OF several blue gibbons at the
eading Eastern shows In 1919. arc
among the harness horses 20 be sold at
purlands on Wednesday. The chestnut
high steppers were doing service in
private stable last year.
Tho horse show management or the
management OF the harness racing,
Fred r. F.ald and his associates having
decided to offer $4,000 In prizes this
year as a generous bid for tho best show
horses In the country. Eight carly clos
ing subscription purses. aggregating
$4,000. have just BEEN oponed. One OF
thsss will bs for lightweight hunters
and another for heavyweight hunters.
with purse Of $4,000 in each class.
Other y.lrses o. 81 900 each are offered
for hackney harness ponies not under
49, hands ard not exceeding 1872 hands,
gig horses. light harness horses and sad
die horses not under 15.2 and not over
15.2 hands. There will be six prizes in
zach class and the entrance fee will he
) per cent. of the purse, payable in in
stalments. Horses must be named on
September IL.
The Brockton experiment is a bold
one which only fair could afford TO
undertake. and its outcome will be
watched with uncornmoniy Keen interest.
for IL succkssful Ii Is sure to be tried Mt
other large horse shows and may possi-
bly, revoiw;ionize tho earning capacity
Of show horses. Larger purses have
been hung up at two or three Western
fairs. but there was never before such
n series of big prizes at any fair or
horse show. First prizes at few shows
arc as large as the entrance fee will be
at Brockton. and tt remains to be seen
how many exhibitors viii have sport
ing blood" enough TO put UP $500 or
$3.50 for each horse thsy nominate. II
the prizes could be awarded as easily
and satisfactorily as in the trotting
races, whore the horses virtually make
their own decisions. there could be little
doubt that plenty OF owners would play
tho game for big stakes, but there's the
rub.
Capt Bertram W. Mills Of London.
England, arrived in New York last week
to seek the cooperation OF American ex-
hibitors in making success OF the next
International Horse Show, which opens
in London on June 10. Conditions just
now are not very favorable for owners
here to send their stables abroad. and it
IS said TO be doubtful whether even
Judge William II. Moore will be an ex-
hibitor this year, his veteran stable
mana ger, George Chipchase, being still
far from we'll Reginald c. Vanderbilt,
president OF the Association OF Amer
ican Horse Shows and the American
Hackney Horse Society. is going over 10
Judge at Olympia.
W. II. Madison of Greenwich, Conn.
arrived last week from Southern Pines
with all his hunters and saddle horses.
At Pinshurst Horse Show, on April sc.
he won the championship for lightweight
hunters with Scipio, the championship
for saddle horses over 1872 hands with
Cecil. the open class for horses under
15.2 with Tireaway and the heavyweight
hunter class with Bicester, subsequently
selling him to Mrs. Stuyvesant Peabody
OF Chicago Mr.. Peabody and Mr. Mad
Olson have purchased farm near
Southern Pines for wintering their
hunters.
NJ. and Mrs. Charles i Hubbs and
their daughter. Mrs. George A. Ander-
son. who exhibit saddle horses in the
name OF Seaustogue Farm, will show
three new ones in Brooklyn this week.
together with Thistledown, Springtime.
sun illdA ana Nludlla, al well KNOWN
winners, Their novice horses are the
four-year-old bay geldiug Billy Monroe.
the chestnut geldng Tal1e-a-Dare and
the registered Kentucky saddle mare
Bona French
Reginald c. Vanderbilts absence in
England as judge at the London Inter
national Horse Show, will prevent him
from officiating In the harness pony
classes at Devon. Robert A. Fairbairn
and e. Won der Horst Koch will there
fore judge both harness horses and
ponies at Devon.
Godfrey Preece OF westbury, r. r..
will show in Brooklyn this week two
thoroughbred polo ponies that he re-
sarls as the equals or any he has owned.
Peroxide, one OF Mr.. Preecs's prize win
rers or few years ago at the Brooklyn
show, ls now In England IN training for
the International matches.
Leading Horse Shows /
10 Be Held This Year
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