The New York herald., 1922-08-20
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
Prize Winners From the Lon
don International for r. r. M.
Carpenter of Wilmington.
ny G. CHAPLIN.

by G. CHAPLIN.
| George Watson Of Teaneck. N. j., is
back from England with big shipment
Of hunters and saddle horses which in
cludes the brown mare Lighthouse re-
serve champion of the London Interna-
tional Horse Show. Her career this sea-
son indicates that judging abroad is as
much Of conundrum as it is at some
Of the minor shows nearer home. At
Richmond she was placed above the Lon
don champion, Radium. and at London
the Richmond champion Cuckoo. was
gave her first prize at any show. She
was champion at Richmond In 1921. She
is now In the stable of r. r. NJ. Car
penter at Wilmington, to whom Mr..
Watson sold her. and will probably be
seen later in the season at American
shows. The man who brought her over
was not much impressed with the Lon
don champion, which he describes as a
stag Of hunter type, lacking action and
style for park saddle horse, according
to American standards, but a perfectly
trained horse for riding. Mr.. Watson
also brought over the sensational hack
ney harness ponies Tipsy Cake and Mas
cot purchased by him for Mr.. Car
penter after they won as tandem at,
the London show. The veteran dealer
says that he is through with showing.
and will hereafter confine his activities
to selling show horses for others to ex-
hibit.
While the figures are not official, as
all the accounts are not yet settled, the
Devon Horse Show will turn over to
the Bryn Mawr Hospital about $40, 900
as the result of this years exhibition.
And this will make about 100000 given
to the hospital since the present man
agement took over the Devon show. 1t
looked like a hazardous venture when
DR.. Thomas G. Ashton, Charles E. Coke
ard William H. Wanamaker, Jr., under
/ took to reestablish the show after it
had been abandoned in 1917, but their
success was immediate. notwithstanding
the war, and the annual exhibitions are
now an institution Of great benefit alike
to the Bryn Mawr Hospital and to the
horse interests r. r. NJ Carpenter and
Isaac II. Clothier, Jr., are new mem
bers OF the horse show committee, while
Mr.. Coke has withdrawn not only from
the committee but from breeding and
showing.
Newport's innovation Of grand cham
pionship prize for the best horse or pony
in next weeks show is one that merits
adoption wherever competent all round
| horsemen officiate as Judges. To see all
the winners, big and little, brought to-
gether in final competition held to sin
gle out the one that is the most perfect
specimen Of Its type should be of abb
sorbing interest to the spectators. And
If the judges and exhibitors can but for
get differences In size a satisfactory de-
cision ought to be obtainable. There is
a very general disposition, however, to
give it to the big one when two horses
of almost equal merit are before the
judges, as everybody knows who has
followed the show horses. Unless all con-
! testants can enter the ring on a per-
fectly equal footing as to size, type and
breed. the class is likely to be farce
or failure. The owner Of a II hand
hunter may perhaps resent defeat by
13 hand pony. but unless he is willing
to go in without advantage over the
smaller animals he ought to keep his big
horse in the stable.
Although he still owns me champion
stallion Hamilton Model. formerly Irv-
ington, Model. James Cox Brady is selling
off most of the bantam hackney mares
and young things In his stud at Hamil-
ton Farm. To Charles f. Coke OF Thjla-
delphia he recently sold the noted har-
ness pony Bit o. Fashion, a full sister
10 Lady Dilham. Walter H. Haney of
Providence. who owned Bit o. Fashion in
her winning days. has purchased OF Mr..
Brady the imported winner Peacock Sem
sation. and Mrs. Wikoff Smith OF Thila-
delphia the Welsh hackney mare S.ucria.
one OF roam pony four that was pi omi-
nen in the show ring few years ago.
| Charles e. Bum of Peoria, ILL.,, who has
been invited to Judge the hackney ponies
with Mrs. John Gerken as associate at
the National Horse Show in November Is
remembered by NEW YORK HERALD read
ers as the man who stirred IN n hSr-
nets nest several years ago by saying
| that pony character" was essential to
| the true pony. as distinguished from the
miniature horse Just what constituted
| pony character" was the subject of
spirited controversy with f. M. Ware
and other authorities but the Western
breeder, dealer and exhibitor held his
| ground that the expression. though
| difficult to define, was good one. Since
then Mr.. Bum has sold his extensive
stud of Shetlands and bantam hackneys
and has gone to raising Jersey-Duroc
| hogs. But he is still known as one OF
the most competent judges OF ponies that
| can be found anywhere. His associate
at the National has likewise won her
spurs as a judge Of ponies as well as OF
harness horses and saddle horses. All
| old timers remember Mrs. Gerken's ban
tam hackney stallion Doncaster Model.
imported from England about twenty
years ago and In his day the greatest
little winner OF them all In harness and
| in hand
John Lee. a Newark reader. writes to
ask for an explanation of the recent
statement that Field Marshal, the geld
ing that won the harness championship
at the South Shore Country Clubs Horse
Show in Chicago this year. is the sire OF
Charm, champion OF the international
Horse Show In London. England. Field
Marshal Is one of many hackney
stations destroyed for breeding pur-
poses because he was more valuable as
a geldng for show purposes His regis
tered name Is Harviestoun Maharata.
Being by Matthias. perhaps the greatect
sire of high stepping harness horses that
ever lived. and out of Tissington Star
light. by the noted sire Goldfnder VI,