The Washington times., 1934-07-09

there when it opened, as hav-
ing come over to see this Horse
Show I could not let being tired
keep me away. Olympia is a
dressed up as it should be for a
London Horse Show; it isn't as
large as the Auditorium, at
Atlantic City, but it is large
enough and decorated beauti-
fully with masses Of flowers
banked in the ring; at each end
are bright yellow flowers Of all
kinds, dotted around with red
and white. What keeps the
horses from running into them
I don't know, but they don't
seem to, so all is well.
Race Revived
The Olympia Horse Show has
not paid well for the last three
or four years and last year tkey
did not have it, but London
can't get on without its Horse
Show, so they started it again
this year, and decided to have
features that would attract
others besides horse lovers. They
are putting on an event as much
like q colorful circus as a horse
show, and the first night one
saw several classes of horses.
They had, for the public that
likes thrills in addition to
horses. such things as Child
ren'S display by members of the
CotSwold Hunt" Parade Of
veteran war horses" Display
by. the Egyptian mounted
police" "A moonlight steeple-
chase" Mr.. Fred Lindsay, ex-
pert with the Australian stock
whip Of the British Empire" I
will describe these different
events to you another time.
The Horse Show classes were
very mystifying to me until
got on to what they were doing.
Ali the hunter classes are just
ridden around the ring (not
juInped), they walk, trot and
canter and are judged for con-
formation. The jumping classes
are all open classes and con-
formation does not count. They
have three or four jumping
classes that run through the
whole show. The first night
there was one jumping class
that had l4O horses in it. I was
bewildered and could not make
neither head nor tail of it, but
found that a certain number of
faults in jumping disqualified the
horse, and in this way the class
gets smaller each day they are
jumped off.
Events Listed
For the class of the first day
I will give you the heading in
the program at top Of the class
50 you can understand it better:
Jumping competition over the
whole course to carry q mini
mum weight of IL stones (15O
pOundS). Jumping round of
course there will be no sliFS
on any Of the obstacles, each
horse will be allowed two re-
fusaIs only in the course of
jumps, . third refusal will
disqualify. In addition to this
there will be q minimum time
limit for each course which will
be stated ON the plan of the
course, and will be about one
minute Is seconds. Amy horse
exceeding this limit will lose a
quarter Of q mark for . second
over the time; no horse will be
allowed more than one minute
45 seconds to complete the
course, and at the expiration
Of that time q gong will be
sounded and the horse must
Immediately leave the ring; i'm
the event Of . rider having TO
wait for any jump having TO
be replaced, the time 50 Occu.
pied will mot be included and
the clock will be stopped until
the rider Is back in position to
jump and will be started again
when he restarts. Amy horse
exceeding eight faults in any
competition will be disqualified
and must leave the ring. In
case Of equality of faults the
directors may require competi.
tors to jump again, or the show
directors may decide as to the
division Of the prizes. This
decision to be final. Faults will
be allotted IS follows: Refusal,
bOlting, circling or any devia-
tion from the true course, first
time, three faults; second, six
faults: third, elimination from
class. Horse and rider fall,
six faults; rider alone falls, 10
faults: horse upsetting obstacle
with fore or hind limbs, four
faults; 1t the wall If any or
several bricks fall to the ground,
four faults"
40 ENTRIES
The class starting with 14O
entries, has been shown several
times either at the night or af.
ternoon sessions. and they have
eliminated all but sixty. who
win continue to jump until they
have o first, second and third.
The King George v Gold Cup,
value $500 or $4,000, for Of
ficerS only Of any government,
was jumped for one day with a
long list Of entries, and by