The New York herald., 1922-11-12
Unusual Circumstances Will
Make His Return Feature of
This Weeks Exhibition.
BY G.. CHAPLIN.


The National Horse Show, which for
almost forty years has played so large
part in the social and sporting life of
New York. will fill out the coming week
Madison avenues at Nlnety-fourth
street The exhibition which opens to-
morrow morning, is the thirty-seventh
| OF the series, which began In 1883 at
Madison Square Garden, and the second
| in its new home uptown. The move,
made necessary by the destruction of
the stables in the old quarters last year,
| has in some respects proved to be a
! blessing. Profiting by the experience of
last season the management has made
some needed changes in the new arena.
| Horsemen who have looked in upon the
| setting as it now is pronounce it almost
! ideal for an indoor horse show. Ninety
fourth street seems a long way uptown
for an amusement place, perhaps and
yet the subway express trains to Ninety
sis tn sti eet make 1t possible to reach
the Armory from either end of Manhat-
tan Island in less time than 1t required
to go across town from the Twenty
third street ferry TO Madison Square
Garden in the early days Of the Horse
Show, while motor cars whisS the horse
lovers to their shrine in mo time" from
every corner of the greater city and its
environs
Entries for the exhibition disclose the
fact that the expected visit of Eng
lands champion harness horse Charm
will not materialize this year. The
| famous English horse Field Marshal.
sire of Charm and victor over her when
| he won the championship of the Inter
national Horse Show in London last
year. is here. however, and more interest
will this week center about him than
about any other horse in the show. IT
is fresh In the memory of the talent that
his English owner, James Putnam, ship
ped him across the Atlantic to show at
the Armory last November, but failed
to win a single blue ribbon, to say
nothing of the championship. There were
expert horsemen who thought he got all
that was coming to him at the hands of
the judges, and there were others who
thought he didn't. Disguised and dis
gruntled Mr.. Putnam sold him on the
spot and went home to tell his fellow
countrymen that all American judges
wanted to see in a harness horse was
speed
The American horseman who bought
Field Marshal and paid something like
$4,000 for him. while he was thus
a.
who is treasurer of Chicago's oldest de-
partment store. Nothing daunted by the
repeated victories of Mrs. Loula Long
Combss champion mare Animation over
Field Marshal at the National in 1921,
the Chicago horseman entered the lists
again this year and had the satisfaction
of seeing his English hackney turn the
tables on Mrs. Combs's Canadian trot-
ting-bred high stopper tho first time they
met at the South Shore Country Club
Horse Show, and again at the Rochester
Exposition Horse Show. with other judges
officiating. With an exhibition of sports
manship not often matched in any
sphere. Mr. Lehman has entered Field
Marshal at the National in the same
class in which he was beaten last year.
and before the same judges who then
turned him down. Animation is not
coming back TO dispute the supremacy
of the horse show world with the Eng
lish high stopper. Mrs. Combs having
made no entries this year, but Field
Marshal will find foeman worthy OF his
steel in the brown gelding Melancthon,
that gave him his hrst beating in
big class at the Armory last season
This horse is owned by Judge william
II. Moore. who bred him in his Seaton
Hackney Stud at Morrlstown and who
owned and exhibited his sire, Marlboro
and his dam Phosphate. before him.
Melancthon went through to the reserve
ribbon when Animation won the cham
pionship in 1921, and he looked the
part all over. II would be the crown
ing triumph OF Judge Moores long and
unexampled career as n patron Of horse
shows and show horses If this geldlng
he has reared. developed and driven
should again defeat the English horse
and win the championship OF the show.
The talent waits eagerly to see them
come together.
The judges who will have to decide