The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-30
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
Local Exhibitions This Spring
Marred by Programs Much
Too Long.
BY G. CHAPLIN.

BY G. CHAPLIN.
One must go to harness racing to
find a parallel for some of the mistakes
OF management which mark the average
horse show. Here in the last fortnight
we have seen two exhibitions, each with
program long enough to fill out q full
week, crowded into four days, and al
most half the classes judged before
empty seats because the people had gone
home on account of the lateness OF the
hour. It was after l o'clock in the
morning when the last ribbon was tied
on some occasions. Both the New York
spring horse show and the one in Brook
lyn had fully twice as many classes as
the number of horses warranted. and
the coming together of the same en-
trants over and over again became
more or less monotonous after the Sec
ond evening. This sort OF thing may
perhaps please some of the exhibitors,
but it does not seem to please the
public.
The award OF the two championship
prizes for saddle horses to Amber Crest
and Cherokee Princess at the Brooklyn
show was a triumph for the veteran
breeder and exhibitor, ]. A. p. Ramsdell
of Newburgh, N. Y, who developed both
winners 1t would be difficult to recall
another breeder who has matched this
feat at so important an exhibition OF
saddle horses as the one in Brooklyn.
The Orange county horseman himself
approached it few years ago when he
won both the championship and the re-
serve ribbon with Lightin' and Powell
ton at one of the summer shows.
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Cherokee Princess, then called Prin-
cess, came out as a four-year-oId IN
1916 and won her first championship the
same year. She has been shown every
year and now has to her credit several
championships. as well as more than
forty first prizes. Her present owner.
Miss Janet MacKay of the Brooklyn
Riding and Driving Club. purchased her
in Boston last spring and exhibited her
with a good deal of success. in 1891.
The chestnut mare is registered as
Cherokee Princess and is a laughter OF
Madison King, whose sire, Golden
King, was formerly owned by Mt.
Ramsdell. She is about fifteen hands
high.
Amber Crest, winner of the champion
ship for horses over 15.2 hands IN
Brooklyn. IS another saddle bred horse.
Mr.. Ramsdell called him Glendee when
he sold him to S. X. Jacobs on the eve
of the Brooklyn show last year. He was
then green and unfinished and he failed
to win He was shortly afterward re-
turned to Mr.. Ramsdell, who changed
his name to Guiding Star and exhibited
him successfully at Long Branch IN
July later selling him to present owner,
Mortimer B. Fuller of Scranton, Pa. Or
seeing him win in Brooklyn this year
a well known expert remarked that ne
had never known a saddle horse to In
prove as Amber Crest had improved In
one season. Mr. Ramsdell says his sire
wa, Marvel Mcdonald. son of Rex Nc
Donald. He Is light chestnut In coior
and is 15.3 hands high.
Mr.. Jacobs, the former owner OF
Amber Crest, has lately lost by death
his well-known saddle mare, My De-
light. winner OF long succession of
novice and championship classes last
season at Eastern shows. Another not
able fatality among show horses is re-
ported from Philadelphia, where the
English hackney pony, Fire Boy, re-
Gently succumbed. lie was one Of the
great sires of harness ponies, with such
winners among his descendants as
Triilo Magic and Dinarth Magic, Shin
field Antelope and Holyport Fire Dance.
Irvington Pagoway, Masterpiece and
Model Fire. Miss Anne Vauclain Inn
ported him from England in 1915. He
was twenty-four years old at the time
OF his death.
Entries will close next Saturday for
the Devon Horse Show TO be held on
May $3.50 for the benefit of the Bryn
Mawr Hospital. The prize lists COM
prise 1856 classes. probably the largest
number ever judged in five days with
out evening exhibitions. Devon calls
together the show horses OF the coun-
try and 10 win there means more than
Mt almost any other exhibition except
the National Horse Show in New York.
Dates for forty-four exhibitions 70 be
held by members this year are listed on
the official calendar just issued by the
Association OF American Horse Shows.
These and a number OF important shows
10 be held by non-members will be found
in the revised list Of dates in to-day's
HERALD.
Judge William III. Moore has consigned
twelve hackney horses by imported Marl-
boro to the auction sale OF show horses,
which will be held during the Devon
Horse Show. Marlboro II private stall
lion--the Peter the Great OF hts breed
and II is only when his owner sells some
OF the few foals no raises that anybody
else has an opportunity TO obtain the
noted sre's offspring.
M. r. Newcomb sold two fast trotting
saddle horses last week to r.. r.. Smath-
ers. The Seventh avenue dealer reports
good spring trade.
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