The New York herald., 1921-06-19
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
First Exhibition at Hunting
ton Bay Club to Be Held on
Friday and Saturday.

The show horses will be at Hunting
ton. l.. l., this week for the first ex-
'hibition of the newly organized Hunt
inHton Bay Club, which opens on Fri
day. Like the one just ended at White
Plains, 1t will be a saddle horse and
hunter show, without any harness
classes except for ponies. More than
one hundred entries are reported in the
saddle classes. which promise TO be in
teresting. Ever since Mrs. Richard @.
Kettles. Jr.'s, Sun Dial won the Presi-
dents cup at the Brooklyn Horse Show
in April his temperance has been
eagerly awaited The handsome chest
nut gelding will compete at Huntington.
Among the other notable entries are Miss
Janet MacKay's new mare Cherokee
Princess. formerly ]. A. p. Ramsdells
Princess. that won the championship at
Boston last year The Bat, a winner at
Durland's, now owned by Mrs. Philip
Schleussner, and Seaton Coralie. the lat
ter a registered hackney by imported
Marlboro out of imported Dainty Kate.
She is owned by r. Lawrence Smith.
chairman of the executive committee of
the National Horse Show Association.
The failure of the harness classes to
fill this season at horse shows in the
though not surprising, when the cost of
moving and maintaining the high step
pers is taken into consideration. The
spring shows at Brooklyn. Durland's.
Tuxedo and White P1slns were not what
they used to be when we'll filled harness
classes gave variety and spice to the
programmes. With only saddle horses.
hunters and polo ponies. which nova
days are approaching the same type at
some of the shows, it is becoming diff
cult not to say impossible, to make up
a programme which does not become
rather monotonous in the repeated ap-
pearance of the same horses after about
two days.
A raise in the rental of something
more than $1,000 a day for Madison
Square Garden is reported to be partly
responsible for the National Horse Show
Associations proposed change of base
to the armory of Squadron A. for its
annual exhibition in November. The
rental last year was $4,000, exclusive
Of the cost of building the show ring
and decorating the arena, which far ex-
ceeded the rental Now that the rental
for Horse Show week Is something like
s25,000 the association has decided to
move. There is more than a possibility
that the horse sales which follow the
Horse Show at the Garden may follow
it to the armory.
Never in its history has Detroit, the
hub of the motor car industry, paid so
much attention to fine horses as Is
being evidenced at the spring shows
there this year. The first show given
on June 5 by the Detroit Hunt and
Riding Club, at its home on the Seven
Mile road, attracted horses from all
of the clubs and was an unqualified
success. Interest Is now centred on the
seventh annual exhibition OF the Crosse
Pointe Hunt Club, on the site OF the
old Claireview Stock Farm of thirty
years ago, when George s. Davis sur
prised Detroit by paying $4,000 for the
California trotting stallion Antevolo,
2:19ia, to head his stud. 1t Is nine years
since the first show was held by this
club with less than a dozen local
horses, the main attraction having
been furnished by Sir Adam Beck. who
brought his stable of hunters on from
London, Canada. The Crosse Pointe
show is purely amateur and this year
will outshine. anything In the vicinity
OF Detroit, the entries approximating
300 for the twenty classes to be judged
next Friday and Saturday. The Bloom
field Hunt Club will hold its annual
horse show on Saturday. July 2, at the
rendezvous of the club in the Bloom
field Hills section.