| Show 4 Friends nd Lovers rs of Equine Beauty Have Arranged National Exhibition tion o 1 ts n ZT 0 1 1 1 d f S 4 h I 4 t b ALFRED I v NEWPORT l WILLIAM j i v t NEW YORK YORK i J 4 4 a I N 1 44 J 4 I I I e HENRY FAIRFAX N I JOHN VIRGINIA N CHIC A CO T STOTESBURY I L 0 C LP H I A Aa a r H NOTED MN MEN HAVE HAn Of SHOW Madison Square Garden N Y the Place and November the Time New York Sept Alfred G Van recent significant statement that the horse was experiencing a 8 re recrudescence recrudescence was followed by the most important wove nove ever made by the Na National National National Horse Show association when its directors who have scheduled the I annual show to be held in n j I Madison Square Garden New York Nov 13 announced that they will wUl conduct an exhibition national in iii scope cope as a well as in name The Tl new board of directors presents an admirable combination of exhibitor With the interests of the theman theman theman man who buys bus breeds trains teaches loves horses linked to those of the theman theman theman man who wishes the greatest possible exploitation of the horse in hi the show sho shoring ring to achieve the maximum of benefit to the horse itself the personnel of the new hew directory has infused decidedly new life Into a reorganised board whose predecessors had been suffering from ennui for almost a decade Interesting the Farmer These men have begun in earnest to win over the farmer to the most date methods of Improving his wn con condition condition condition as well as aB the equine ume products of his stock farm fann They see every angle of the breeding industry permit pelI lt no i dark spots Everything Is illuminated by their eagerness to be the real friends of the horse With th the of the Na National National Horse Hor Show association has rome ome the general adoption by the di directors directors directors rectors of the Vanderbilt idea that the recrudescence of the horse makes for great gnat economic problems in the breed breeding breeding breedIng ing farm industry Judge William H Moore one of the most influential and enthusiastic of the directors more pleasure out of the success that attended the efforts of the breeders of draft animals of the middle west in ex exhibiting exhibiting exhibiting at the last international show In Chicago than he did in capturing blue ribbons for his own grand string of animals His success abroad a triumph in its iL scope he dismisses aes with witha a smile While Thile he may ma not say sa it Judge Moore must know knof that this has helped the cause of the national shows new directory He is a big factor in the latter The ise had Im Immense immEnse mense successes abroad Edward Mor Morris Morris Morris ris the Chicago packer had the breed breeders breeders breeders ers of draft animals abroad in the hol hollow hollow low of his hand figuratively speaking so o great was the interest created by the sweeping victories of his hi championship team Big Men at the Head The new directory stands for the biggest biggest big gest pest men in the country countr who are eager to develop the horse horae breeding In Industry to put it on a plane that it merits in their estimation e J W r Har liar Harriman riman he d of the New York banking house hou of Harriman A 1 Co and a nephew of the late E H Harriman saw the recrudescence of the horse hone at a time when society seemed about to be carried away in the swirl of the auto automobile automobile mobile craze When asked What about the horse and the horse show Mr Ir Harriman replied that the horse would have a startling equine tale to tell to the lover of horse shows would retake all the strongholds he be le had for formerly formerly merly held among the people of wealth refinement and social distinction He may not have foreseen the edict of the National Horse Show association that for the first time in Its history the best beet of the draft animals of the country be exhibited in Madison Madlo Square Garden as aa a big feature of or the pioneer pl M r show He I Ima may ma not have hav known that Ui t the U e big men I of the directory would take this action I In 1909 but Mr Harriman was wa certain that the horse hone soon would be in the The stamp of ot the approval of New Yorks best people has been placed upon the plans The farmer of f the middle west has heard the new call to arms from Madison Square the offer of In special prizes forthe tort the display of a million JoK I lars lam worth of Shires Belgians Perche rons rolls and ana Clydesdales and is now mak making making ing tog arrangements to please not only Mr Vanderbilt Mr Harriman and their heir as associates associates of the directory with the novel exhibit of draft animals In the sue I Iring ring with the daintiest sa Mo adde Tp and 1 naV kr ness nes beauties of the Vanderbilt Vanc Moore McGrann Harriman Watson Wat on Sorg Sor and other stables but to make the national show how as well welt known in the hamlet as it itIs itIs itIs Is on the great grf at White Way Vay Reginal P f C of f rt 35 F i T St t t 11 of nf f PP FT Pr 1 crick M of Or New cw York I I L 2 ij fR ML NEW f I NEWS O T Akers of Louisville R It C Gasser of A Fairbairn 01 oi PlainfiEld N J M L New York W V G Low Loew L w or New York u 1 Wharton of ot New York Hen Henry Henry ry 17 Fairfax of Virginia John A Spoor of Chicago Arthur G Leonard of Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago Colin CoHn Campbell of Montreal Can ada J H Childs Chikis Chil s of Pittsburg and all associates of Judge Moore Alfred G Vanderbilt and Mr Harriman on the directory director literally and ana figuratively have taken off 01 their coats to prove to the country that they were right when they the incorporated into tue me horse h show snow program the draft horse horae exhibit exl feature No man knows the needs of the horse industry so well weli as the keenest keenes lover of the horse horst says Alfred G Van lt The breeder of horse hor li looks to the keenest lovers of the animal for his inspiration his hiB ideas in developing breeds All AH America is now hewing bowing to the e Shire Clydesdale and Belgian as the strain that is to give the country its best working animals Europe has felt the demand for these the types of horses in the United States and has had its breeding farms almost de depleted depleted depleted by the American purchasers The moment the American farmer realizes that the biggest men in the country are in thorough accord on the need ot 01 breeding only the best beat horses horae then in that moment the farmer f finds dence in his market Not a Society Stunt The horae horse show is not a plaything of society It is a cog in the ma machinery machinery chinery of the political economy econom of the farming industry It creates a demand for the best horses Judge re recently recently recently in his quiet convincing manner impressed this upon u on some middle west breeders who were inclined to be They have thanked him for his words and are now no as practical hard hardheaded hardheaded hardheaded headed business men seeking to pro produce produce product duce duct the best for the best market Mr Vanderbilt lays particular stress str upon the fact that the coming national show will have the best known and I most moot efficient judges to be obtained in inthe Inthe Inthe the United States and Canada Hith Hitherto Hitherto I erto the show has been New Yorks I show Now the west the big rich ag agricultural agricultural agricultural region of the Mississippi val vat valley valley ley is 1 3 to be a big factor The confidence dence denee In the Judges that their names will inspire will act as a tonic for the breeding interests attracted by the draft hoise horse exhibit offers Harness saddle and jumping horses of the highest types will have quite as important a place ph ce on the national show program as ever but the drafters are to tobe tobe tobe be featured as the pick of the breeding farms The cay cavalry cavalry alry airy troopers maneuver also have been added to the features of the coming show in Madison Square Garden Blue Ribbon Winners If It New Yorks national show were not assured of its most representative list Hat of exhibitors of harness animals the strings of Judge William H Moore Alfred G and Reginald C Vanderbilt J W Yo Harriman C W V Watson R P McGrann the Lancaster Pa horse horseman horseman horseman man and Paul Sorg of New York alone would furnish the most equine beauties of the year animals that have captured so many blue ribbons not only in this country but abroad that they compel Instant attention Winners in the International Horse HOIle Show held in London last June in various classes and in competition with the best beet ani ant animals animals mals of Great Britain are already promised Official records of the London show tell 1411 how the three Americans Walter Waiter Winans Judge Moore and C W Wat Vat Watson Watson Vatson son swept the boards adding thousands of dollars In trophies to their long list Hat and gathering scores of ribbons Both Judge Moore and Mr Watson Vatson exhibited only in the heavy harness classes Thir Thirtyfour Thirtyfour Thirtyfour Moore horses were put Into classes clas e and he lie won eleven first p etI six lx seconds J ten third prizes and nine fourth prizes besides some minor ribbons exclusively characteristic of the international Judge Moores Beauties Radiant one of the mainstays of ot Judge Moores stable and sure to be brought personally Into the New York horse show ring by the judge won the championship at London Leonidas was first firt in the class for private brougham turnout while Marie in the brougham class had no roub in taking a first flITt Judge Moore Moorer r n Lindas and ani In inti I tiie ti o e c tar m event novice pairs V I P 4 A C LEONARD CHICAGO and in the private brougham turnout I the animals winning two firsts byrll byrIl lis us and Phyllis also were winners for forthe forthe I the horse show director In the novice pairs and championship pairs Mated with Menella in the tandems phaetons and championship tandems Phyllis helped to garner samer one on more first and two seconds The famous park that Judge Moore delights in driving easily won first In its class while in the classes for pairs all sub subject subject subject to keen rivalry Judge Moore cap captured captured captured highest honors with Orator and Statesman ad Debater Abi Abigail Abigail gail gall and Bismarck Senator and Diplo Diplomat Diplomat Diplomat mat Debater took second in the private rate ate appointment class Additional laurels were brought to the Moore stable by b the Lady Seaton The Thetis ThetIs Thetis Cyrus Thaddeus Whitehall Pan Pandora Pandora Pandora dora Arlel Ariel Sylvanus Roanoke Hum Humboldt Humboldt Humboldt boldt Hapsburg Truette Lonsdale and Chicquita Lady Seaton regarded by many experts as the best one of the big string was not shown once in the rib ribbons ribbons bons hens in single harness and received only one fourth prize when shown in tandem Some of the London winners never have been shown in this country and are counted upon by Judge Moore to make a big hit in the national show Winners at London LondonI Mr Watson displayed ed ten horses at atthe atthe atthe the London show and in twentysix classes won nine firsts five seconds six thirds and four fourths It is a rather I remarkable thing that has been favor favorably favorably favorably ably commented upon abroad that with this small string every animal In it was placed while seven seen of the ten won first prizes in single or double harness Two championships fell to the Watson Vatson horses and they were placed in two other classes Mr Watson Vatson discovered that American and English ideals dif differ differ fer Lord Baltimore and My Maryland II champions of the last National Horse Show in New York getting first firstin firstIn firstIn in the appointment class for f r Victoria Vl pairs as well wen as in the appointment class for Stanhope phaeton pairs but when shown in the class in which ap appointments appointments appointments did not count they were placed fifth Ringing Bells Moonshine Lord Bal Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore and My Maryland II Virginia and Lady Baltimore and Chatterbox were among the ribbon winners and they are all promised for the coming national show The best horses in Al Alfred Alfred Alfred fred G string were not shown there but with Gibson Boy Wanda Tonawanda and two hand teams he won two third prizes besides carrying off ote the gold coaching cup in the Marathon the distinct hit of the London show E T trotters almost swept the boards in the light harness classes Curiously Lucie G and an Pearl Onward i championship winners in single and double harness In the New York show of 1908 failed to take blue ribbons but Lugano and Lomo Lorna were first in the class for pairs while Mary Glenor was champion in single harness J W Star Mr Harriman has Nela as a star in his string This heavy gig horse of quality shares the distinction with Gal Galant Gallant Gallant lant ant Lad of Louisville of being the finest horse lorse in the world Nala will be ex cx exhibited exhibited at the Louisville show Oct 11 after which Mr Harriman will prepare his ills entire string for the coming nation national al show Before the last detail of arrangements for the th transformation of the Madison Square into the national show has been submitted to the directory for official approval the leaders interested In the success of the national exhibit will re require require require quire the thc th report of a technical expert on the arrangements for the big pro proposed posed horse lirse fair fr The ring will be large i nough enough to accommodate the or more prize draft dratt horses that will be sent on from the west for the exhibit It is estimated that western breeders bree rs who are planning the display of more than choicely bred Shires Belgians and Clydesdales will take special pains to send their best animals to Madison Square Garden for the added reason that these same animals will be available avana lE for the list In the International show at Chi Chicago cage cago a month later luter |
