The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Moreland Show Horses
Here for DurIand Sale
Fine Saddle Nags From Ken
lucky Under Hammer.

IT Is not often that the country's lead
Ing dealer in show horses disperses a
stable full OF fresh goods at auction,
which fact, perhaps, accounts for the
unusual interest that is being shown in
Robert Il. Moreland's sale at Durland's s
Riding Academy on Tuesday evening.
Many Eastern buyers have for years
looked longingly on the type OF saddle
horse made famous by Mr.. Moreland.
but they always cost so much at private
sale that comparatively few could afford
to own them. Now, however. the young
Kentuckian Is going to let the public
appraise his horses and buy them at
their own prices. He has promised to
let every horse go il only one bid Is
made, and those who have known him
ever since he first came TO New York
as rider of the HARRISON horses In the
good old days. when the Winter Garden
was the American Horse Exchange, will
have faith that he will keep his word.
The horses arrived at Durland's yester-
day and will be on exhibition there
until the evening of the sale.
Larger shipments of fresh Western
work horses than have often been sent
to the auctions at Fiss, Doerr & CAROLS
are now coming in to the old Bull $
Head market for the Monday and Thurs
day sales. Half dozen carloads some
times arrive in n day, to be distributed
through the medium of the auctions
among buyers from Boston, Baltimore
and the country In between, most OF
them going TO dealers who will sell
again. Thus far this season it has been
buyers market. Prices have advanced
little, to be sure, but they are still far
below normal, and it is only the fact
that shippers are getting them at low
prices in the West that keeps them
coming in
George L. Chetwood, who has been
identified with the horse business In
Newark and Elizabeth for many years,
says he has observed that usually the
first weeks of April bring break in the
prices for work horses, the reason being
that shippers and dealers often flood the
market just at this season. which is
about the busiest of the whole year. Mr..
Chetwood had lately established weekly
auctions at his big yards and stables in
Elizabeth, where he is selling fresh and
seasoned horses every Saturday.
James Cox Brady is going to disperse
his famous stud of hackney ponies dur
ing the Devon Horse Show next month.
The sale will put on the market the
noted stallion Hamilton Model, three
times champion of the National Horse
Show and sire of many winners. includ-
ing Chestnut Blossom, twice champion
saddle pony of the same show. At Ham
| ilton Farm, Gladstone, ". j., Mr.. Brady
has a notable collection of brood mares.
many of them either champions or win
ners here or in England
T. s. Glover of Aiken. S. c., shipped
a carload of polo ponies, hacks and
hunters to New York yesterday for a
special sale at Durland's Riding Acad-
enly on Friday evening. Mr.. Glover
gave the buyers in New York and
vicinity some very useful animals at
moderate prices last season, and the
bargain hunters will all be on hand
when he sells this week.
William Cook has converted the noted
hackney stations. Haverford and Au-
burn, into a carriage pair. They are
chestnuts. 1872 hands high, and can go
as high as wild geese fly. their owner
says Auburn Bonfire was champion of
the National Horse Show few years
| ago.
John Nee. Bowman, Clifford Hance
and George F. Morris have announced
the disposal sale of their saddle horse
breeding stud in New Jersey. Glen
Chief and Margaret Tate, both well
known show horses. are among the
twenty head to be sold.
The Bergen Horse Company sold an
other good run of horses of all the COM
mercial types on Wednesday at their
Communipaw avenue stables in Jersey
City. Two loads of green ones and a
lot of seasoned workers made up the
offerings.
Waller & Potters supplied Long Island
buyers with a large number of farm
horses in their Tuesday auction last
week at the Rutledge street stables in
Brooklyn.
Wednesday and Saturday are now the
regular auction days at the old Raymond
street horse market In Brooklyn. G.
Leaver is the manager and Henry
Schafer the auctioneer.
Stadler & Stadler OF Fifth avenue and
Sixtieth street report an unusual num-
/ Der of orders this season for riding
clothes Of the highest class for exhibitors
at the Brooklyn and New York spring
horse shows.
Joseph Wiesenfeld, Baltimore's largest
dealer in English saddlery and riding
equipment, is filling orders from all
parts of the country this spring
Brill Brothers are specializing In rid
ing suits for men at their Broadway
store near Forty-ninth street.
M. y. Newcomb. 924 Seventh avenue
has two stables filled with saddle horses
and is boarding out four more that he
cannot put away.
Fl. Kaufman & Sons are showing a
large and varied stock OF imported Eng
| lish saddles and riding brides at their
Division street building.
Lawrence Fitzpatrick has some excep.
tional finished polo ponies in the lot he
recently brought In from Wyoming 10
Hugh Gormley's riding school In Flush.
Ing. He says they are now about ready
to show with mallet and ball.
w. II. Madison OF Glenvilie. Conn
has several fine saddle horses and
hunters ready to show in Brooklyn and
at Durland's He reports few sales
OF late.
Ozone Park now has a regular weekly
horse auction every Wednesday at the
stables of Plato & villio. IN Ocean ave.
nue. ". ID. Graham is the auctioneer.