The New York herald., 1922-11-26
SUCCESSFUL PLAN
|. OF GETTING ENTRIES
Special Commissioner fOrDraft
Horses Fills All Glasses at
Armory Show.
BY GuRNEY G. CUE.

b The display of draft horses during the
week was universally voted the Lest
ever seen at the National Horse Show.
and it was made up almost wholly of
teams to be seen every day in actual
service on the streets of New York.
horses at a show which usually has
been wofully lacking in this depart
ment is due to the wisdom of the man
agement in putting the matter of OBJ
tanning entries into the hands of Will
lam p. Kearny, an enthusiast and a
horseman of wide acquaintance. The
successful plan might be tried out
with profit in some other departments
where at present there is a shortage of
representative exhibits. Take the trot-
ting horses. for example. With hun
dreds of them coming tofNew York each
year for the big auctions which follow
the Horse Show 1t should not be diff
cult for a horseman like George A.
Coleman or any one of a dozen others
who might be drafted for the service to
round up an exhibit the like of which
has not been seen in more than dec
ade at the National Horse Show. Thor
oughbred race horses, always a meager
be strengthened If turned over to c. J.
Fitz Gerald or some other horseman in
close touch with owners in the vicinity
of New York. Hackneys and polo
horses. too. need a special commissioner
and there are other breeds and types
OF which the same may be said. The
time was when the mere publication of
the prize list brought In flood of en-
tries for the Horse Show. but that day
is past as to all but a few classes The
shows which obtain the bumper entry
lists nowadays are those whose man
ayers leave no stone unturn I'd in their
efforts to round UP the horses.
Those interested in fostering the
American saddle bred horse might
profitably follow the lead of the hackney
men by giving some substantial prizes
at the National and other leading horse
shows for registered representatives of
their breed under saddle. 1t is a re-
markable and unaccountable fact that
while nearly every notable winner in the
novice and open classes for saddle horses
is saddle bred horse, the breed never
gets the credit due, except among the
very few we'll informed followers of the
show horses. BY the published condi-
tions of the prize list, all saddle classes
open to horses of all breeds and of no
breeds. and there Is nothing to indicate
what breed or combination of breeds
has produced any prize winner. The
same state of affairs existed in classes
for harness horses and ponies until
some public spirited members of the
American Hackney Horse Society of
fered special prizes for registered hack
neys shown In harness. These special
classes now serve to show the public
that nearly all the best harness horses
in the show are OF the hackney breed,
and a similar course on part of the sad
die horse men might be just as effective
in opening the eyes of the public to the
superiority Of the American saddle bred
horse for riding. The presence of such
a specimen of the breed as Bohemian
Actress in the country's leading horse
show without anything whatever in the
catalogue to indicate the source of her
superior excellence is a striking example
of opportunity overlooked on part of
the American Saddle Horse Breeders
Association and It's many wealthy MEM
bers.