The New York herald., 1921-03-06
TIMELY GOSSIP
OF HORSE SHOWS
Exhibitions Held in Connec-
ton With Fairs Are Becom-
ing More Important.
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The annual statistical number of the
Shotc Horse Chronicle, just published by
Herbert ]. Krum, at Lexington, Ky, is
probably the largest periodical of its
class ever printed. It's 376 pages made
IL necessary to issue the magazine in
two sections. Thirty horse shows and
their winning horses and exhibitors are
exploited with an amount of detail and
Illustration quite unexampled. There is
4 record Of awards at each show. supple
mcnted by table showing in detail the
BY another table showing the winnings
OF each horse.
Mrs. Loula Long Combs of Kansas
City, heads the list of winning owners
for the year. according to the Chronicle.
Exhibiting her harness and saddle
horses in 395 classes at sixteen shows
she won SAT ribbons and S14.75S. Her
entries were 110 times first So times
second. Sc times third and "a times
fourth. Their first prizes included 81
championships. Their best score was
made at Springfield. Mass, where they
won 10 firsts including championships.
Tn largest amount OF money won was at
Springfield. ILL.,, where their earnings
were s2,270. Really. the best showing
however. was when Mrs. Combs divided
her stable between the Iowa and Wis
consin State fairs. winning $2,595 in one
week.
Ii is interesting and significant to note
that all but one of the horse shows at
which Mrs. Cornbs's stable won $1,000
or more were held In connection with
fairs or expositions. And the one ex-
ception was the National Dairy Show in
Chicago, where a horse show Is always
put on to attract the public to the cat
tie show, the same as at the fairs. Some
OF these fairs are now offering about
the largest prizes in the country, and
each succeeding year sees their horse
shows becoming more and more import
ant and attractive to exhibitors.
Those who remember the brilliant sue
cess of Mrs. Combss harness horses at
Madison Square Garden last November
will be surprised to learn that her VIM
nings at ten fairs and exposiions were
in each instance larger than they were
at the National Horse Show in New
York. The National gave more money
than any other straightout horse show
OF the year. and yet it was behind every
fair save one in the Kansas City horse
woman's winning exhibitions. No fair
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show which ranks with the one at the
Garden in the representative character
OF its exhibits For this reason the pres
tige OF winning there is still unap-
preached The fairs and shows at which
Mrs. Combs exhibited her horses in
cluded Denver, Washington, Devon, Chi
cago (South Shore Country Club, Des
Moines, Milwaukee, Hamline. Sedalia,
Rochester, Syracuse. Springfield, Mass.
Springfield, Ill. Chicago (Dairy Show.
New York (NationaD and Chicago (In-
ternationaD.
Judge William H. Moore's famous
hackney stallion Marlboro, by Matthias,
Is to be exhibited at the fairs in South
America, not In the flesh. but by means
OF the photograph reproduced In THE
New York HERALD n few weeks ago.
The United States Department OF Agri-
culture, through its Bureau of Markets,
is preparing a colored transparency ex-
hibit OF all the breeds of live stock in
this conutry for the use OF Its repre-
sentatives at the fairs in Brazil. Argen-
tine Republic and other countries. and
Marlboro has been selected as the rep
resentative hackney stallion. He Is cas-
lily the most prominent stock horse of his
breed now living in America or Eng
land. His owner keeps him as strictly
private stallion.
James G. Marshall of the Riding Club
and Lewis Z. Waring OF Plainfield have
been invited to judge saddle horses at
the New York Spring Horse Show. which
opens on April &c at Durland's Riding
Academy Hamilton II. Salmon of the
Brooklyn Riding and Driving Club and
e. S. ]. Mcvickar will judge the harness
classes, while Charles +. Hart and
Thomas c. Assheton will pass on the
hunters and jumpers. Prize lists for the
show will be published In few days.
Isaac II. Clothier, Jr., has been elected
member OF the Executive Committee or
the Devon Horse Show to succeed
Charles e. Coke, who recently resigned.
Mr. Coke, who had one of the most sue
cessful studs and show stables OF hack
ney ponies in the country before the
war, seems to have severed all connec-
ton with horse shows and show horses.
L.. j. Kane, 50 Ann street. Il filling an
unusual number OF orders this winter
FOR Fire Department hose to be used on
stable runways.