New-York tribune., 1922-11-15
Y eterall Mounts
Are Winners
AT Horse Show
therokee Princess, am Old
lime Fayorite, Ridden by
Miss janet MacKay, Is
Victor in Ladies' Glass
Lady Mine Takes Ribbon
Field Marshal, Sire of Cham
pion, Adds New Laurels;
Gavalrymen Do Stunts
By EIarriette Underhill

For thirty-six years the officers and
directors Of the National Horse Show
have been much envied persons who
were popularly supposed To sit nm ir
the boxes or loll around the arena
prldefnlly giving their handiwork the
approving eye as king horse reiened
supreme on the tanbark." This was
more or less true, and it was also true
ehat Society turned out en- masse,
ana that Gall roads led to the horse
snow" in those days. But that was
.hen' and there is vast difference be.
tween now and then. This is this
ehlFty-seventh horse show which is be-
ing heid this week at the armory OF
squadron A, and as we sat in the press
pox yesterday and watched the horses
ana the judges and the exhibitors and
Inc ohcers of the show, we realized
s ehat being "one of the National Horse
snow people" is no longer the sinecurc
.,i Wnich II was supposed to be. The show
ehiS year Will be success; thew did
get the horses, and the classes are well
hlled, but it could not have been an
easy matter to accomplish this. There
are still plenty of work horses. because
shere is so little work for them tn do
out snow horses are a different promo.
sltlon, and those who love "Kino
morse and his big annual exhibjtion
cannot feel quite easy in their minds
as they look at the entry list. There
are SO few, new and worthwhile en-.
trants. ''e eii'
Ladies' Glass Popular
The most popular class Of tho day
was the exhibition of ladies, saddis
horses over LAP and not exceeding 15 :
hanos, Ladies were to ride, and man.
hers were to count 80 per cent. "The
mariners of the lady?" "No. the man.
ners of the horse.H
Well, if those horses didn't have
good manners it wasn't because they
hardn,t had enough training. 1t isn't =
nice thing to call a female a veteran
ana Cherokee Princess belongs to the
weaker and deadlier sex. but she Ger.
tainly ls no longer a debutante. hav,
ing debutted something like seven O,
s1ght years ago, Driftwood Blaze. Mrs
a'ter Hanley's entry, is two years
'he Prlncess' junior, but he has wor
enough. championships to last any
morse Tor the rest Of his life. Ant
perhaps they will have to last him, fol
yesterday he was defeated by Cherokee
Frlncess, who was ridden by Miss
Janet MacKay. The award was popu
lar one, for the consensus was thai
Driftwood Blaze was not what he uset
TO be. Somehow he didn't seem to blaze
very much. One of the horsemer
| standing near us remarked:
Why, robot horse could have heat
en- Driftwood the way p he went to
! dav." And how glad we were that w,
went to see R. U. r. last Friday night
SO that we knew what robot was. I
Is pronounced as though it wer,
spelled "rubbit," and it is a handmade
man chemically produced and chemi
cally pure. - @Ts
a"By Jove," exclaimed the other oil
horseman, "robot horses wouldn't be
bad idea! We need them, for nobody i
producing much any more"
Excepting William H. Moore" W,
fchimed in. sand Macy Willets." adde,
the first speaker. But you know robo
| horses are an awfully good idea ant
| something has got to be. done about It
Old Timers in Show Ring To-day
Why they are bringing back the broo,
mares and the sires Of yesterday to be tn
| show horses of to-day. J. A. P. Ramsdel
towned Cherokee Princess long ag,
when she was just plain Princess. Sew
eral years ago, when he sold her, sh
Won her prefix in Boston and has bee,
fairly successful ever since. But yes
terday was red letter day for her, O
course.
A real veteran, and gentleman VIII