The New York herald., 1921-02-27
TIMELY GOSSIP
OF HORSE SHOWS
Miss Janice Liggett Imports
Seven Hackney Harness Po-
nies From England.
BY GURNEY G. CUE.

BY GURNEY G. CUE.
Miss Janice Liggett OF Chestnut Hill.
Mass, is Strengthening her stable OF
harness ponies for the coming season py
some notable inrportations from Eng
land Among seven bantam hackney
high steppers recently brought over are
four from the same dam, Falinge Spar
kle, daughter of Mrs. F. 2. Caravan
perennial champion. Flame. and oam OF
Miss Liggett's well known winner F'ai-
inge Princess, or Fulanse. ,Falinge Dor
othy and Falinge Betty are by rake
Fire King, son of the famous FIRE
Boy and sire of Falinge Princess. Fai-
inge Furore and Falinge Mary are by
Southworth Swell, grandson OF Sir
Horace. Pleasure and The Gormano
are pair OF bay geldings by Supremacy
son OF Matthias. Bingley Boy, siA
year-old bay stallion. Is by Hopwood
King, con of Admiral Cliquot. one OF the
horses brought over from England IN
1915 for exhibition at the National
Horse Show, by Walter W. Rycroft'
president of the English Hackney Horse
Society.
Thirty-nine classes for hackney horses
and ponies at this years Devon Horse
Show seem to refute the widespread i'm
preston that horse breeding Is at
standstill. The number is easily the
largest ever given at any American
horse show and is not far behind the
London Hackney Show in England. Offi-
cials OF the Devon show announced last
fall that they lntended to make 1t the
leading American hackney show In 1874,
and they have taken long step IN this
direction by offering prizes for stations
mares and colts of all ages and all sizes.
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Futurity for fos Is of 1919, which closed
last year, and which will be Judged In
two divisions, one being for horses and
the other for ponies. The exhibitor who
wins the most ribbons-not necessarily
blues---En the pony breeding classes will
receive a gold cup donated by ]. K.
Dering of Chicago
Conditions governing the broodmare
classes at Devon, as tentatively ar
ranged, are open to criticism and ought
to be revised before the. prize list is
published. They provide that the mares
must be in foal or have produced foals
In 1920, and that the prize will be with
held until the winning exhibitor fur
nishes a certificate that the mare has
produced foal. This plan was tried
for years at the National Horse Show.
and II worked out so unsatisfactory
that conditions now limit competition to
mares that have produced foals In the
year shown or the previous year BY
this means the owner of barren mare
Is prevented from showing and perhaps
getting all the credit of winning the
class, only to have his mare disqualified
when nobody hears of 1t, months after
the show.
Exhibitors of show horses will be like
ly to ship by motor van more frequently
than ever this year, the railroads having
refused the request Of the Association
Of American Horse Shows to permit the
usual number Of attendants to travel
free with each carload of horses. BY a
singular discrimination in favor of race
horses Ave attendants and one trainer
can travel free with each express load,
but the rule for show horses Is one at
tendant andl no trainer.
Miss Michele Newborg OF New York,
who owns and rides the winning jumper
Killarney Jim at local horse shows, won
two races In Bermuda on Feb. 10 at the
Garrison Hunt Clubs meeting on the
Shelly Bay course. The useful thorough
bred Mr.. Specs. that brought home the
bacon moro than once for August Bume
on metropolitan tracks. was Miss New
borgs colorbearer in the race for Ber-
muda naidens. at five furlongs, and In
the Army and Navy Stakes. at one mile.
Lieut.. Breeds rode him. j. A. p. Rams
dell. Miss Margaret Tompkfns and
others of the horse show contingent from
New York cashed mutuel tickets when
he won. Miss Newborg bought the chest
nut gelding from Frank Williams just
before she sailed for Bermuda The
| Galloway Stakes were won by Wilton
Chief, a chestnut gelding that Mr.. Rams
dell bought at the Long Branch horse
show q few years ago, after he had won
a race there. He finished second to Mr..
Specs in the Army and Navy Stakes.
All too few of the winning show horses
are ever given q chance to produce win
ners, but Mrs. w. A. McGibbon's we'll
remembered saddle mare, Rosabel,, that
| defeated Sceptre and all the rest at
Madison Square Garden ten years ago.
went to the stud after winning four
championships and a score of blue rib
bons. and she Is now the dam of a
brown two-year-old filly by the thor
oughbred horse Modrigalion, that prom
ises some day to come back to the Gar
den and repeat the performance OF her
dam. Or. L. NJ. Allen, OF Gaylord, Va.
owns her and calls her Rosalie. He Is
breeding the old marc regularly to
Modrigalion.
Emmett II. Jennings, for many years
a prominent figure at hunt meets and
horse shows in the Genessee Valley died
at his homo In Avon, N. Y, few days
ago. He was closely associated with s.
]. Macy of Avon, and at one time put a
coach on the road between Rochester