The New York herald., 1921-11-14
MAY Be CHAMPIONS
IN NOVICE CLASSES
opening Of National Horse
Show To-day Will See Fu-
ture Stars Uncovered.
ARMORY PLEAsEs ALL
Horsemen Like the Big Ring
With It's Easy Turns and Pre-
dict Horses Will Like It.
BY GURNEY c. CUE.

BY GURNEY c. CUE.
Preparations for the thirty-sixth Ma
tional Horse Show. which opens to-day,
we're going forward under full headway
yesterday In the great armory Of Squad
ron A. at Madison avenue and Ninety
fourth street. To the uninitated II
looked as II the best part of a weeks
work was yet to be done, but Charles
Slayter and Frank T. Clarke. old stagers
at constructing and beautifying the set
ting for the show. assured everybody
that the last touch to the elaborate
decorations would be given long before
the bugle calls the sixty-four jumpers
into the ring for the first competition
OF the show at II o'clock this morning.
Following the horse show breakfast
Biltmore yesterday a large number OF
exhibitors, army officers and others
visited the armory to look over the
horses. the ring and the preparations for
with the big tanbark enclosure in which
the saddle horses. harness horses and
hunters will perform, the universal opin-
fon being that II is a great Improvement
on the much narrower and somewhat
shorter ring of pas' years at M'dison
Square Garden. Shelby T. HARRISON
and other experts pronounced the foot
Ding perfect for the horses and pre-
dicted that on the easy turns many OF
them would outdo their previous per-
formances. The spacious, airy stables.
with hundreds Of commodious box stalls,
also came In for commentator. while
the roomy hitching paddock and the
attractive appearance Of the arena oc-
casioned many exclamations Of surprise
Interesting Opening Glasses.
The programme for to-day is one Of
the most interesting Of the week. with
several novice classes In which the fu-
trre champions may come to the front
e the outset. Rules governing novice
classes are different from those Of other
shows, any horse being eligible to COM
pete as n novice unless he has won a
first prize at the National in past years
or at the International Horse Show in
London. This rule bars the visiting
English horses. but it will let in the
champions of many American shows.
In the first class OF the afternoon. In
Heed, there are several Of the most prom
inent winning saddle horses Of the sea-
son at the summer shows, including
George Crouch's Artists Model. Mrs
Walter II. Hanley's Cincinnati Kid,
samuel Keller Jacobss My Delight, By
ford Ryan's Comet, r. z. More Ian i's
Elelia, Mrs. Leland Stanford Woods Bo-
Flemian Silk and Mrs. Lou,a Long
Combss Hazel May. The one hat wins
this class Is pretty sure to be the one
the winner of the lightweight champion
ship will have to be at on Saturday after
noon. Twenty-seven are eligible to COM
pete In this novice class, which is for
horses not exceeding 1872 hands.
IT, -ov'o~ r'a~s for saddle hor ,ee
exceeding 15.2 hands viii omen the eve
ming exhibition. and with thirty entered
it bids fair to be equally interesting and
important in Its bearing on the heavy
weight championship. In this class are
srch ~ VII ners as Miss Clara S.
Peck's Wirona and Charles F. Hutbs's
Sun Dial, old rivals at Brooklyn. Baby
Ion and other summer shows: r. r. NJ.
Carrenter's The Answer. John r. Cro-
zer's Sir John. Mrs. N. ]. Hess's Desert
Gold. J. A. p. Ramsdells Grand Slam,
Mr.. Crouch's Blaze, Mr.. Jacobss Ken
lucky Colonel. Mrs. Combs's Grand Mas
Ter and Mr.. Harbison's thoroughbred
race horse Fire Stone, formerly Flying
Eagle. that ran lot OF races In Ken
lucky and Cuba when owned by w. ".
Thraves.
Homebred Hackneys ON View.
Judge william III. Moore Is going to show
two three-year-old hacltneys of his own
rearing In the novice class for hai ness
horses at the afternoon show. One OF
them. Seaton Seaton by name, is q son
OF the famous old harness maro Lady
Seaton.i several times a champion 0f the
National. Horse Show. This class will
be something Of competition for anna
teur breeders. William du Pont of VIII
nington. Del. having entered three
horses from his Montpelier stud. -Four
of the ten eligibles are the offspring OF
Judge Moore's imported hackney sta'-
lion Marlboro. whose get have all but
swept the ring on more than one occa-
sioa a, the National and other shows
T1e Siich talked OF trotting bred
stallion Bel'Ini Worthy. 2:0eM, bred by
W. q. DicKerman of Mamaroneck but
now owned or entered by r. z. More
land of Kentucky. Is billed TO make tfs
debut this evening in the novice class
for harness horses not exceeding 1873
hands. He has been heralded aa fu-
ture champion. and there is great curl
csity among horsemen to see him strip
for action In company with the hack
neys which nowadays dominate the
ring. There will be one or two less OF
the English breed for him to beat J., this
class, the newly imported mare Dlstinc.
tion, entered by Mrs. Combs. being toe
sick TO show. All OF the horses recently
brought over from England by tho
Karsas City woman are reported to be
ailing from the change OF climate and
MAY nor be seen this week.
BesiIcs the novice classes there VIII
DC succession of varied and interest
ing competitions at the show to-day,
with a game of indoor polo tonight be-
tween teams representing the Riding
Club and the New York Riding and
Driving Club.