The New York herald., 1921-01-09
TIMELY GOSSIP
OF HORSE SHOWS
Prominent Winners of the Sea-
son in Saddle, Hunter and
Pony Glasses.

The Horse Show Blue Book for
1920, soon to be published by ]. w.
waring, will award the honors of the
season to Miss Isabella Wanamaker' s
chestnut hackney mare Eve as the
largest winner at recognized shows.
In single, pair and tandem harness
she captured fifty-one first prizes, in
cluding eight championships. Her mate
Netherhall's Pride, was her closest COM
petitor with forty-four firsts to his
credit Their campaign opened at the
first horse show Of the year, in Brook
lyn, last April, and closed with the
National. at Madison Square Garden,
on November II. It included nearly all of
the leading exhibitions from Brockton
in the East to Chicago in the West.
Among Ewes beaten competitors were
the best in her class, including Mrs.
Loula Long Combss National Horse
Show champion, Animation. George b.
Hume placed Animation second to Eve
at Rochester, while Hamilton II. Sal
mon twice awarded the blue to the
Wanamaker hackney in competition
with Mrs. Combs's trotting bred high
stopper at the New York State Fair
Horse snow In syracuse.
1t was at Rochester. in 1914, that Eve
made her memorable debut in the show
ring in double harness with her half
sister, Suave. An upstate horseman
exhibited them as pair, with long
tails. in light harness. When they
were beaten he sold them on the spot
TO Emil Seelig of New York, who
docked them and shod them overnight
and the next day exhibited them in
heavy leather before a smart George
". phaeton, winning the blue ribbon,
to the amazement of the former owner.
Eve won the championship few weeks
later at the Westchester County Horse
Show in White Plains, and since then
has won about thirty championships
and two hundred first prizes. according
to the Horse Show Blue Book. The
score, to be exact, is thirty-one cham
pionships and one hundred and ninety
six first prizes Before she was re-
tired at the close of 1918 Suave won
scventy-one firsts and ten champion
ships.
In the last few campaigns Neither
halls Pride has taken the place of
Suave in pair and tandem classes with
Eve and has won one hundred and
thirty-four firsts, including twelve
championships. This horse was shipped
from Alberta. Canada. to the National
Horse Show of 1915, and was shown as
a three-year-old stallion In the breed
ing classes for hackneys. winning third
prize. William H. Wanamaker. Jr.,
purchased him soon afterward and con-
verted him into a harness horse for
Miss Wanamaker to drive with Eve
or Suave, thus giving her three that
worked in together at the shows. He
is by imported Netherhall out of i'm
ported Yapham Lily by Royal Denmark.
The mares are daughters of Lans-
downe. son of imported Langton Per-
former III. Suaves dam was Margaret
by The Sirdar, while Eve was out of
trotting mare of untraced breeding.
They are 10 hands high.
Besides leading the list of winning ex-
hibitors with her harness horses at last
seasons shows, Miss Isabella Wana-
maker had the leading winner among
saddle horses, according to the forth
coming Horse Show Blue Book Her
bay gelding Cherrystone carried off
twenty-three first prizes in the course OF
the campaign, while Miss Janice Lig-
gctt's Bohemian Actress won twenty
two: Miss Clara S. Peck's Allah. twenty
one: Frederick d. MacKay's Check
mate, nineteen !. Macy Willets's Trig
gers, sixteen Miss Louise dA. Carpen-
ter's Powelton and Miss Ivy d. Maddi-
sons Myopia, fourteen each Mrs. wal
ter II. Hanley's Driftwood Blaze, twelve,
and Miss Liggett's Gwydyr Rose, ten.
Among the ponies Miss Corinne Poth's
National Horse Show champion, Never
Bounce, held first place In the saddle
division. with fourteen first prizes to his
credit. Mrs. +. p. Caravans bantam
hackney mare Chestnut Blossom, by
Hamilton Model. being second, with
thirteen firsts. In the harness division
Miss Liggetts Princess Fulange stood at
the top. having won forty-four firsts to
thirty-two for Mrs. +. P. Caravans Ma
tional Horse Show champion Hamilton
Flame. and thirty for Miss Liggetts
Fulgora, the mate to Princess Fulange
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