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Show ENDURANCE OF HORSES STUDIED i Winning Riders Stood Up in Stirrups Entire 300 Miles CHICAGO. Nov kL (By the Asso- 1 elated Tress.) Any stralcht-polntr. sound horse, with the heart to ke-p , Kolnp down the road, can finish in the 300-mile annual endurance test, ac-cording ac-cording to experts who have analyzed the results of the 1922 meet, held r - cently :it I . . r t Bthan All'-n. Vermont. The result, they decided. shows what r:n lnjr men have lonp known. j that th vinners como in all snap-s and sizes. This vi-ar's five-day race was the I fourth annual rnfval of tho classic of the armv remount world, Tvhich W H Brown, of Berlin, N. H, aril A W. Harris, of Chicago, wero Instrumental In-strumental In founding. Wayne Dinsmorc, of Chicago, chair-man chair-man of the committee in charge. In an analysis of the winning horses, commenting on the av ide range of j types that finished In tho ribbons. finds that the variation in the victors; I was more apparent than real, how-1 en. er, being iargely due to the moro upstanding carriage of head and neck j in some. , All had good withers for the saddle. Mr. Dlnsmore says, all were strong backed and powerfully muscled over I back and loins, nil had fair slope of shoulders an 1 posterns, good feet and well set legs Vendetta, the first prize winner, j was a thoroughbred. Gladstone, lin-, ishlng second, a Morgan; Grant, In I third place, a grade American saddle hors , Cragmore, fourth, a crossbrc-d ; by a thoroughbred stallion out of a I standard-bred trotting mare, rath-. flnd r, fifth, a thoroughbred; and I Clonmell finishing sixth, Mas an Imported Im-ported IrLsh hunter, largely thorough- j bred in .breeding. The first prize ! Winner was a mare, and all the others! I geldings. The most Important lesson learn J from the endurance tests, which re-quire re-quire the horse, carrying 220 pounds thi- year (20 pounds less than in the HUO and 1 1 2 1 meetiO to complete tho 80(1 miles in five consecutive das, ! Mr Dlnsmore says, is tho necessity1 for stra lht-golnp action. In other j words, tho horse's feet and legs should move straight forward, parallel to a lino drawn through the center Of his body. In the direction of travel. Any deviation, ihc tests have revealed, re-vealed, wastes energy, leads to leg weariness, and causes tho horsos to 'Interfere" by hitting the fetlocks with the Bhoo of the other foot. None of tho prize winners were perfect straight-goers, but tholr do- . vlation was so ullght as to causo no j Interference, except in tho case of tho first prize winner and her rider found a way to check the trouble, which ! was due to bad'shodng. Next to stralghtness, the Judges de- ' Ided, a low easy gait Is most desirable, desir-able, a-gait described by horsemen as "slipping !ong ' This was modt noticeable In Vendetta and Clonmoll. Hoth raised their feet only enough in clear the ground and both put their feet down squarely with a - prlngy step. High knee and hock action, with extreme flash, so much admired and1 sought after in horses used as park hacks. Is a distinct disadvantage It1 was found, to horses forced to under - 1 go endurance rides. The judges also found that tho skill ! of the rider, his seat, hands and feot enter largely in the result- The best i riders rode the entire 300 miles stand- , lng up in their 6tirrups balanced so perfectly they n- r. struck the .saddles, i "Ono of the Judges1 Mr Dlnsmore I says, "described the id-ui Beal when ho said of one rider "you could gluo a fresh laid epg In th seat of his ; saddle, and ho would not break it hv a whole da , s ride ' "' LoDg stirrups, and riding straight up, with spring In ankles and leg muscles to tako all shock of the : rider's weight from the horse characterize, char-acterize, the best long dlstanre riders, , Chairman Dlnsmore s report says an 1 ' pounding tho saddle" at a trot, as the park riders do, 1? precisely what must not be done. Major Louis Heard, commander of tho Fort Royal remouut station, who 1 rode tho first prize winner, said. "I rode tho entire distance Btandlng In my stirrups continually In a trot . and some of the time when it a walk. When trotting I rude teetering,' as it wer in my stirrups endeavoring; at j all tlmoe to keep my center of gravity j i very llttlo ahead of that of thoi horse Instead of pulling my weight, my mount was endeavoring to catch up with It. At times I 'bridged' with my reins across tho neck just In front j of the withers, but very lightly, mere- ly to retain my balance " |