The New York herald., 1921-10-23
HUNTER BREEDING
SOCIETY Is FORMED
New Organization Outcome of
Last Sundays Horse Show
at Brighthome Farm.

While the Meadow Brook Hunter
Show was III progress at Brighthome
Farm last Sunday It's promoters em-
brnced the opportunity to solicit MEM
bers for the Hunter Improvement So
ciety, which 1t is proposed to form. The
! organization committee comprised
Thomas Hitchcock, II. l. Nicholas. r. 8.
Won Stade. Samuel Willets, e. L.
Winthrop r. Penn Smith, Jr.. 8. Bryce
Wing and w. r. Grace Ed. L.
Wenrick circulated the membership
blanks and obtained the subscriptions
OF large number OF the fox hunting
men and women present To encourage
through horse shows and by other
means the breeding of hunters is the
/ object Of the society.
The Goshen Hunt Club held a horse
I show en- October IA at the Orange
County Driving Park with competitions
for all classes Of horses from farm
teams to flyers Of the Grand Circuit.
Mrs Cooper Hewitt's Starlight won the
ladies' saddle class and the open class
for saddle horses under 15.2 hands,
) with c. c. Stillman's Dolly second in
each class. Picardy, entered by Miss
Fanny Wiclts Of Tuxedo Park was first
in the class for saddle horses over 1872
hands, and the same exhibitor won the
class for hunters with Thunder II. s.
Crossman's Garry Owen and Blarney
were second and third. w. d. Grand
and j. r. De Vine judged the saddle
and hunter classes. and William Carr
tire drafters.
When Miss Eleonora r Sears Of Bos-
| ton sold her show horses end ponies at
auction In Durland's Riding Academy
last year, and announced her withdrawal
from the show ring she retained the
bantam hackney harness mare Irving
ton Nipper Girl, then a four-year-old,
for which she was reported to have paid
$4,000 to Andrew Little. manager Of J.
Macy Willets' Cassilis Farm. Miss Sears
still owns the handsome little daughter
| of 1rvington Sunbeam and Maid Of
Irvington. and has entered her in the
coming National Horse Show.
Mr.. Willets said yesterday it was
Irvington Autocrat and not Mighty Mite
that won the American Hackney Horse
Society's medal at the recent Brockton
Horse Show. Conditions Of the class
we're unusual. The stations entered
mares tried conclusions among them
selves, the winner In each division COM
peting in the final. Mighty Mite won
the class for mares, but had to be con-
tent with the reserve ribbon when she
met Irvington Autocrat. The latter
pony is a half brother to Irvington Nip
per Girl, both being out of Maid of
Irvington. well known winner of ten
years ago and a full sister to Hanil-
ton Model. Nipper, Jr., and Irvington
Peggy. Autocrat went through the
Brockton show unbeaten. winning four
first prizes in harness and in hand.
When Mrs Loula Long Combs's newly
imported English pony Invasion for
merly Little Briton, won the harness
class for ponies not under 1872 hands 1t
was Mr.. Willets's Masterpiece that he
defeated.
Lady Adam Beck Of London. Ont,
whose death was reported in Tuesday $
HERALD, was the first woman to officiate
as a Judge at the National Horse Show.
She acted with James q. Marshall In
the classes for unlocked saddle horses
at Madison Square Garden in 1916.
when Sceptre and Sandy Mcdonald were
the champions. and she came back the
next year to assist in making Sceptre
and Radiant the unlocked champions OF
1916. Last year she was associated
with Harry McNair of Chicago, and
their ideas OF saddle horses differed so
decidedly that third judge had to be
called in before the championship was
awarded to Joan over Bohemian
Actress. the latter the champion Of 1919.
The Canadian horsewoman was essen
TALLY hunting enthusiast.
Col Spencer Borden Of Fall River
Mass, who died last week, was another
we'll known figure at the horse shows
having often judged and exhibited
Arabs, and for several years promoted
an outdoor show In his home town. His
| first love was the trotting horse, and
spirited and brilliant controversy with
Col George e. Waring in the pages Of
| Scribne7's MdgGsine and Wdllucc's
MONTHLY back in 1878. At that time he
derided the Arab as a horse of NOON
shine and lambasted Col Waring for
"the snobbish view he takes Of the trot-
ting horse" Forty years later ne had
forgotten the trotter and was writing
panegyrics on the Arabs. of which he
owned the largest stud In the country.
This he sold a few years ago to w. r
Brown of Berlin, N. H., whose Arab
gelding Crabbet won the recent cavalry
endurance test Col. Borden was really
the father of the Morgan Horse Club.
It's secretary. C. c. Stillman. yesterday
remarked the peculiar coincidence that
at the National Horse Show last year
Lady Beck gave a blue ribbon to an
Arab mare bred by Col. Borden and
ridden by his little granddaughter Flor
ence Darrach. Now Lady Beck and
Spencer Borden have died on the same
day. Col. Borden was " years old.
Announcement 10 made that Roger IT,
Bayly has Joined the staff OF John Nee
Bowman In the Hotel Biltmore and the
westchester Biltmore Country Club at
Rye, ". Y. Mr.. Bayly comes from an old
Virginia family long famed for its hun
ters and horsemen. He has been ia
millar figure at the National Horse
| Show and had once one of the best show
stables and hunters In America
Though William II. Wanamaker. Jr.
sold seven Of his show horses and ponies
last week. he will have enough to make
a strong bid for the ribbon at the Ma
tional next month His newly imported
hackney marc. Kitty Melbourne, and
Sir Eric are In the $4,000 stake for har-
ness ponies, while Eve, Netherhall's
Pride and Fireaway are in the regular
harness clases.
AZ his big sporting goods store In Balti-
| t. I<.ln a.