Recollections of men and horses by Busbey Hamilton 1840-1924

Author:Busbey, Hamilton, 1840-1924
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, Horses -- Breeding, Horse racing -- United States
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

HORSE SHOWS AND CONTROVERSIES

at first, but the directing heads were not discouraged, and success was finally the reward of persistence. Now Madison Square Garden is the great focal point of interest during horse-show week in November, and the rule of Fashion is absolute. The educational character of the show was so marked, giving emphasis to beauty of outline, manners, and appointments, as well as to motion, that its best features were reproduced in other social centers, to the advantage of the breeder and handler, and to the instructive pleasure of the community at large. Th© sea is not always calm. There are unexpected things which seriously disturb it. The President of the Horse Show Association must be versed in diplomacy to calm the troubled waters. At the Philadelphia Horse Show, in the spring of 1895, Colonel Lawrence Kip, who had excited envy by winning season after season in New York, met with keen disappointment. His celebrated light-harness pair, Mona and My May, were disqualified, and he expressed himself in no uncertain tones. I quote from a letter which he sent to me for publication:

" Of course Mr. Cassatt had done just right and tried to help his associates out of the hole. His vets, say Mona was lame. She is a Jay Gould, peculiarly gaited, and was not lame. My May, they say, whistled. She is free and sometimes frets when you take her back. She did not whistle. I certainly know something about the soundness of a horse. We were entered in a special, one prize. Four rib-

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