The New York herald., 1921-08-28
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
Old Fashioned Amateur Neigh
borhood Exhibition to Be Held
at st. James, Il. I.

The twelfth annual snithtoy7n Horse
Show will be an al day exhibition on
Saturday, September IT, at Fifty Acre
Field, ln ST. James. L. !. With the
grounds thrown open TO tho public and
competition limited TO horses owned by
amateurs, this IS one OF the few real,
old fashioned country horse shows of
the season In a section long noted for
its horses. horsemen and horsernanship.
1t brings out many novice hunters, sad
die and harness horses and ponies kept
for every day use. and IN this way Is o
refreshing change from the larger shows
where old ccmpaigners monopolize the
ribbons Forty classes, including sew
eral for breeding stock, viii be Judged
this year by Henry L. Bell and his as
sociates. The committee IN charge corn
prises Devereux Ennet. Lawrence
Smith Butler, Arthur n. Lawrence, WILL
lam A. Minott Clarence Robbins and
Robert Gilmor.
New York State Fair Horse Show
at Syracuse, which opens on Mon
day, September i2, and closes on
Friday. September 16. Under the
direction OF Major Pierre Lorillard.
Jr.. one OF the State Fair Commissioners.
the Syracuse show has been going ahead
with each succeeding season and this
year promises to set new record. The
new turf show ring has been greatly inn
proved, the stables are tho finest In the
country. and with n large and diver-si-
| fed prize list exhibitors from East and
West are going to show. w. S. Blltz,
! ha 40 10 vNfSah h1.ty al
ready come IN from Mrs. Loula Long
Combs OF Kansas City. j X. Derfna
and q. c. woodfn Of Chicago, John r.
Bushnell of Springfield. Ohio; Mrs. ]. g.
Sylvester of Boston and numerous New
York exhibitors.
Raymond Belmont. who has lately
gone into the breeding of race horses
and hunters at his new flrTn near Mid
dleburg Va, rode tho winner Of tho
two mile steeplechase at the horse show
and hunt meet there a week ago Tho
horse was Doctor Barlow, by Todding-
ton. purchased last spring from Godfrey
Preece OF Westbury, l. l. Danger Rock.
son Of Rock Sand and winner OF the
Newmarket Stakes in England, is to
head the new stud,
There Win be a country horse show of
the old fashioned sort at New City next
Friday In connection with the Eockland
County Fair. Twenty-one classes. em-
bracing greater variety OF types than
the National Horse Show, are to be
Judged. w. N Mcvickar, J. Garner
West and ID. c. Burdick are some Of tho
Rockland county formers identified with
the exhibition
The National Polo Pony Society viii
hold It's third annual show on Wednes-
day September z. at the Meadow Brook
Club on Hampstead Plains. The exhibit
ton Is to begin In the morning and con-
tinue In the afternoon. In connection
with the show there win be q sale Of
polo ponies and breeding stock, including
some colts and fillies by well known polo
sires
George watson, once among the Lead
Ing exhibitors Of harness horses but Of
late an importer OF Irish hunters, is
apparently getting ready Co return 10
the fold. He has Just purchased Of
William du Pont. Wilmington, Del. the
high stepping hackney mares Montpelier
Mona and Montpelier Fireaway, by I'M
ported Chief Inspector.
Dates for the annual horse show at
the Piping Rock Club on Long Island
have been changed from September 30
and October / 10 October and 8. This
arrangement. will bring the opening OF
the show at Locust Valley on the closing
day of the Brockton Horse Show, near
Boston. Tho change was made TO avoid
a similar clash with Mineola.
Alfred p. Maclay. Edward IT. Carle
and Lewis Il. Waring have been invited
to Judge horses at the show to be held
in connection with the Morris County
Fair at the Whippany River Club. near
Morristown. on September % to "a. The
prize list embraces forty-four classes,
eighteen Of which are for hunters and
jumpers.
Judge william RI. Moore has sold 70
Edward Berwind Chase Of Radnor, Pa
the bay hackney pony stallion Bantam
Bracelet, winner In harness and In hand
at the last National Horse Show. Re
was bred by Judge Moore. who exhibited
his sire. Berkeley Bantam, and his dam,
Irish Bracelet. at Madison Square Gar
den many years ago.
Newports annual horse show, which
opens tomorrow bids fair to be the bes,
exhibition OF harness horses since the
spring show at Devon. The harnes,
classes, indeed. promise to be the feature
OF the ahow, which is rather surprising
I'm these days, when SO many shows are
giving up their harness classes for lack
, of entries.
Kitty Melbourne. one OF the best hack
ney harness ponies in England. Is cominl
to the United Stateg w. s. Miller, who
paid $4,000 for her at DR.. r. ID. Judson't
sale last season. has sold hor to m
American breeder, whose identity L. not
yet known. She was got by Successful
out of wortley Kitty. by Cassius.
Harvards Strong Nucleus
for Cross Country Team
Spscfa, Despatch to TIE NEW Ycnw HralLD
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