NEW YORK HORSE SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

NEW YORK HORSE SHOW.

■■-■ BEITIBH omOßtiS'-'TTIN JUMPING". . :';■,■■ ■;;'■.; :v?. : ':','"-JSVENTS.' ■:.■"■:..;.,1"'.:-' '■■:■ ". ID» rTeitcrasb—Prcsa AaiaclaLtoa.—Oopjrlihl.l , ■'■.■i.'.." , ':' , ,V.-'; ; ;■.', New York, November 14. \J3ritish bfficera won several of the'chief juniping prizes at the New Yovk Uorse Show. Lieutenants Yorke and Montoiioro took the Grand- Cup jointly.'. .:'...■ • :,■■,'"', ■ ; : /A'bRILIIANT GAtHEnJNG. ' : The annual. Horse Bhqw, held,in Madison Squwe Garden, Nev York City, ia the eooial event of the Beason. No other occasion brings together enoh'an array of wealth and fashion; Acoominodation at the loading hotels. ia ■at a high prenriwn, anr. jnany csotly banquets and entertainments are given by leaders of American pocietyj assembled '■ from every important' oity in the Union. The Yanderbilt, mitney, and families are the principal ei r bibltois, owners themselves taking an active Part.in the exhibition of their hqrseg, It is }W Ukely that the drastio. wti-racing■■legis-lation of Governor Hugheq will militate Very •seriously against' the success of this year's show, althqugh. a large number of the mpst ya.l«ablo racipg horsw Jiayo been shipped to *HVOpq, The enccess, of the BHtisli officers in wiiuiinij leadinß prizes will bo .feofciyqfl, for it is due to Canadian and British enterprise that equpetrian tournament? in New Yorlj City becsme popularised, although, tie tot venture, soma years agor-a British military tournament-ended in a dlsasW u"*, »™. » TO? dna tq the muniOcence of Jf r ". T Piefpont Morgan that the company was reimbursed and received ita oxpenses home. It Was thought that'the great automobile show hold yearlyin Now Tort City would ecS fhe Horee bhow, but as the former devolved into , a purely commercial affair, tho latter .retains its prestige as a social event of S passing wagnlflcortce. . • ■ p *