The New York herald., 1922-03-26
WEST COMING EAST
FOR SPRING SHOWS
Mrs. Loula Long Combs and j.
Il. Bushnell to Exhibit Their
Horses in Brooklyn.
By C. CHAPLIN.

Mrs. LouIa Long Combs Is coming
East for the opening Of the horse show
season next month. according to reports
ness and saddle horses is one of the
strongest in the country. as disclosed
by championship awards at the last
National Horse Show. and Is always an
attraction. 1t is likely the Longview
horses will make their first appearance
In Brooklyn. and they may be exhibited
the next week at the New York
spring horse show in Durland's Riding
Academy. John L. Bushnell of Spring
field. Ohio. who owns The Whip and
other high stepping harness horses. is
expected to exhibit at both metropolitan
spring shows.
Twenty-Five subscriptions are reported
in the stake of $1.0u5 for saddle horses
which closed recently Tor the Brooklyn
Horse Show. This Is a gratifying num-
Der. which insures one of the most in
teresting competitions of the spring sea-
son. The stake of $1,000 for harness
horses has eleven entries, according to
in these dayss The stake of $3.50 for
harness ponies has not filled quite so
WELL but 1t will be allowed to stand
The stake of $1,000 for jumpers re-
ceived the largest list OF ALL as might
have been expected
Reginald c. Vanderbilt. president Of
the American Hackney Horse Society
has received from England two large
and handsome silver cups. the gift of
Capt. Bertram w. Mills to the society.
They are to be offered as prizes this
season at four Of the leading horse
shows, the exhibitor winning either
trophy three times to become the owner
AS they were given to encourage the
breeding of hackney horses and ponies.
1t has been decided to offer one for the
best brood mare over 14.2 hands that
has produced foal in 1920, 1921 or
1922 and the other for the best brood
mare not exceedig 14.2 hands. The first
competition will take place at Devon in
May, the next at Rochester In Septem-
ber, the third at Brockton in October
and the fourth at the National Horse
Show in November.
Judging breeding stock is so often a
farce that it Is to be hoped the shows
designated will select men who know
something of bloodlines as well as con-
formation and action to award Cant.
Mills's cups. Successful breeders IN
these days pay careful attention to both
qualifications. and judges who would
pick the mare best suited for breeding
purposes must do the same. As mat
ter of fact, however. they seldom know
and still less often consider pedigrees in
distributing the ribbons. And their
shortcomings in this respect are doubt
less largely accountable for light entr.e IS
so often seen In classes for breeding
stock
There was a whole strawstack of suS-
gestion as to which way the wind is
blowing in the horse world when the
recent National Pony Show turned out
TO be the most successful of all the
spring exhibitions this season In Lon
don. Polo and riding ponies, Arabs.
Welsh and Shetlands made up the list of
entries. with the polo type holding the
center of the stage. Both the King
and the Prince of Wales were exhibitors
in the Arab classes, and the Princes
entries won nearly everything they triid
for. making a sweep in the class FOR
colts and fillies by Arab stations out OF
Moorland pony mares and heading the