The New York herald., 1922-05-21
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
Brockton to Give $4,000
in Prizes, of Which $4,000
Is for Nine Stakes.


can horse shows In the amount of money
distributed this year. the committee hav-
ing decided to offer $4,000 in prizes for
the five days Of the exhibition. Continu-
ing the enterprising stake program intro
duced last season there are to be nine
early closing stakes aggregating $4,000.
OF this amount the harness horses will
compete for $4,000. hackney harness
ponies for $4,000, saddle horses for
$4,000 and the hunters for $4,000. The
Brockton show has been extended to
five days this year, opening on October
and closing on October Z.
w. s. Miller. the British breeder who
judged hackneys at the last National
Horse Show in New York, purchased the
sensational harness pony Miss Freda
Immediately after she won the novice
class and the championship at the recent
Doncaster Hackney Show. Godfrey
ID. 5. Bennett says of him in the London
Lfre Stock Journal: Miss Freda is a
delightful pony. showing great individu-
ality and liberty and terrific pace. which
would endear her even more to an Amer
lean public than to our own. She is GER
tainly worthy to rank Tissington Kit
Kat, Mel Valleys Bauble, Axholme
Venus and Mel Valleys Masterpiece as
one of the best harness ponies of the
last twenty years. The new star of
ponydom is daughter of Melbourne
Shot. by Melbourne Fire. out of Florence
Melbourne by Successful Miss Freda's
grandsire Is thus a full brother to Mrs.
Francis p Caravans American cham
pion Hamilton Flame. Mr.. Miller has
been invited to judge again at the Ma
h. Jn
mare may come with him IL she Is not
In the meantime sold to some exhibitor
here.
Belated but still ahead OF Wa1lace's
Yearbook, the annual Christmas issue
of the SJtoto Horse Chronicle made its
appearance last week Herbert ]. Krum.
the editor and publisher, Of Lexington,
KY, has. filled its 376 quarto pages with
pictures, statistics and stories of the
show horses, horse shows and exhibitors
of 1921, at a cost of untold and un-
requited toll. The Chronicle Is largely
devoted to Western horse interests, and
its records include many important
shows not reported elsewhere. These
disclose the interesting fact that Mrs
Loula Long Combs of Kansas City won
! $40. 0.060 in money prizes last season; al
most enough to pay the expenses of her
large stable Of harness and saddle
horses at the thirteen shows in which
they were exhibited between Newport in
the East and Denver in the West. In
AIS competitions they won 178 first
prizes and 21 championships. The ac-
tual total in money and prizes was con-
siderably larger than these figures In
dicate, as no report could be obtained
from the Missouri State Fair at Sedalia.
where Mrs. Con1bs's horses won upward
of $4,000 and about forty first prizes.
Prize lists for the twenty-ninth West
chester County Horse Show embrace 101
classes. w. S. Blitz. the secretary, says
this Is the largest number in the his
tory of the White Plains show. Back in
the days when the annual exhibitions
took place in connection with the West
chester County Fair and New York news
papers sometimes devoted two columns
day to the social and sporting features,
with writer's like Harold Frederick and
Samuel Hopkins Adams reporting them,
there were only about half this number
of competitions and the classif1cations
were not nearly so varied as at present.
Now that horses are much less nume-
rous than in those days the extended
prize list makes 1t easier to win.
bumper list of entries for the Devon
Horse Show. which opens on Thursday,
Is seventy-four At the request of sew
eral exhibitors high jumping conpeti-
ton has been added to the program !:
horses to be named at the post. Twen-
ty-two entries are reported In the class
for thoroughbred hunters: like num-
Der in one of the saddle classes and nine
in the class for pairs of ladies' phaetor
horses. while all the stakes have filled
well.
John C. Groom. president OF te old
Philadelphia Horse Show Association
twenty years ago and judge of har-
ness horses at the National Horse Show
in New York last year, has been invited
to Judge the harness classes next month
at the International Horse Show in
London. George B. Hume "a naive of
England but an exhibitor and Judge at
American horse shows for thirty years
past, is going over to award the prizes
for saddle horses and ponies at Olympia.
The exhibition Is to open on June IT.,
continuing eight days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. McGibbon Judged
the riding competition for girls of the
Rosemary Hall school at Greenwich a
few days ago. w. II. Madison and r.
It. Pitcher are the instructors In equita-
ton and their pupils gave a creditable
and pretty exhibition. Miss Berry won
the cup for the best all-around rider.
From the United States Morgan Horse
Farm at Middlebury. VT. comes the
news that the winning police horse in the
recent Brooklyn Horse Show Is the reg
stered Morgan Jetmore. bred on the
Government farm and got by Red Oak,
son of General Gates, formerly the
premier sire there. Jetmore's dam,
Puwanish Maid was by Troubadour, son
of Troubadour of Willowmoor, the
presnt head of the Government stud.
Twilight Hour, champion saddle horse
at Madison Square Garden In 1919, Is
to go under the hammer at the Devon
Horse Show sale.
Entries will close tomorrow for the
| Tuxedo Horse Show. TO be held on June
| . and at Tuxedo Park. New York ex-
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