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WANT RELICS FOR THE SPORTSMENS DINNER. New Tork, January 39. With quarters at the Waldort Astoria reserved for two day- this year on the occasion of the second annual sportsmens din i! i. Harry W. Smith and bi associates are pla.i-;iing to maki the exhibition of turf trophies, rel -and Works ol art mm h more of a feature than II was l.i-t season, when many rar-- old portraits, caps, books and print- relating to the horse focused an interesting but all too brief display in the Myrtle Ronni while tin- gneata were aaaemhllag before dm, a r. This year the exhibition will be opened on Febra-arj iv and continued oa February 19, when the dinner i- to Ik- given. Important pictures and other .-nil it- if historical Interest to horsemen are being solicited and searched oat, and a displaj la pror/i Ised which will be a magnet for votaries of racing, trotting, bunting, polo and bona ■hows from all pan- of the country. Last year the Jockey club loaned such relics of racing a Troyes portrait of Beel and a rare old steel engraving of Col. William It. Johnson, the "Napoh n of th Turf." who backed Henry against Ecliiwe in the memorable match race for 820,000 a side between the North and the Soath at the Union coarse. Long Island, in lsj:;. won by Eclipse. A nans t Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club. . utrlbuted from his private collection Troyea portrait of Lexington. Mr. Smith sent from Worees ter, Mass., the bit that held the old-time American racer, Prioress, whin she won the Ceaarwlteh "f U,; n, England, also the hoof of Flora Tempi . tic first trotting horse to beat l:2i . Cap*, i:. i.. Cassatt. ol Philadelphia, loaned th? Preuknesa Cup and the st. .lame- Hotel Cup. m ■ by his father, A. J. Cassatt, many year- ago. A. Henry Hlgginson, of Boston, loa I the Montreal II nn Cup-, won by bim la 1!"7 and 1908. the only rears they have com.- across the border alace th j wer.- first raced for la !• ■,;. Oakielgfa Thorn -contribution to the loan collections waa the Inter national Cun Club Cup. WOO In Baglaad in 1892. Job, i;. Madden* wan the model ror Charles Carj Kuni-ey- statin f Nainy Hank-. - "t. together with several water eobirs itainted bj Bowlanaon la I7sj. Ko-a itotih, ii r" - great painting or the duel between Hobglobln and tin- Arabian was loa led bj b U r at Co ind then w i ; • numeroua otbi r pictures, book- and caps which called to mini i a e i: days ami gnat days of racing in America and l. gland. lor this years exhibition Mr. Smith i making an unusual effort to find aoaae worth] relh of Richard Ten Brocks invasion of the British tun in IH57. Tin Broeck was the Brat American tun man whose „ runners met arlth anj success abroad, and with -o of ii,.- beat Yanki ■ thoroughbreds now being |j-nt" to the other side, wing to hostile legislation ftuain If :■ t i- especially desired to obtain aoaae fitting mementoes of tbis pioneer campaign. i I irtunatelj tot the success of the guest. Ten Brnecks borsi-s, Lenante, Pryor. Prioreas ami Babylon, won but on,- race in England in ilnir first campaign ii tlUhert Patrick, the crack American loekej i hi- day, bad ridden Prioreas accordlnx to her owner- Instructions the flood wood cup ,.i |jc,j mlgbt line ■•in. In Ain.iiea and lew lie mailable for tie- coming exhibition, but tin- Illy died away i., a cantor after running out in the lead to tin- una] aatartei and Monarque won tin cup tor Prance. Pryof was ridden at Goodwinx! by Charles Littic- field, who is still in the flesh, and it may be doubted whether any inanimate relic of the race could equal in Interest at the sportsmens dinner the story of the tirst American invasion told by the veteran turfman himself. Though the success of his tirst campaign abroad was not up to expectations, Mr. Ten Broeck persevered for almost a decade on the British turf, taking over fresh horse- and buying Knglish horses and racing tlicni. In ten years his total winnings were about 00,000, of which his American -In- d horses won S74.12." . Mr. Ten Broeck was a native of Albany, and in early days was associated with William R. Johnson, of Virginia. In the hot obtaining some suitable trophy or relie Mr. Smith is trying to flml the descendants or relatives of Mr. Ten Brocek. who died in California twenty years ago. There was another and an earlier invasion of England by American horses, which the trotting fraternity would like to sea commemorated in some way at this years dinner. It was thirty years, or thereabouts, before the Ten Broeck stables went over that Ifoeeaata Jackson, a local celebrity in ♦hi-New York horse world, took the shaggy little pony. Tom Thumb, and aoaae others, over to England, and threw down the gauntlet to the Norfolk trotters now called hackney- -on their own ground. His light sulky and harness were as much of a revelation BS hi- -pied and endurance were to English horsemen, and when he beat their best trotters and their best records Tom Thumb was tin talk of the day. Invitations t i the dinner will be sent out to member- of all the leading organizations of borne men throughout the country. Nearly 290 were present at the first dinner on February lft, PHI. and a much larger company is counted on this year. Among the we!! known horsemen who attended tic-opening function were J. Fred AlpetS, August Belmont, James Butler, Henry L. Ptdl. C. A. Baltnasio, A. II. Cosden. Capt. K. R. Cassatt. Elliott C. Cow-din. W. Barling Cocks, Sward Cary, William dn Pont. Pies ton Davie. Robert A. Kairbairn. J. •.. PoUansbee, W. R. Grace, H. L. Herbert, c. I.. Harrison. .Jr.. Major William Hendrie. S. S. Howland, Leonard Jacobs. Charles Kohler. McPhersou Ken in dy. Rene La Montague. John E. Madden. Andrew Milbr. Edgar Murphy, Julian Morris. Harry . Nicholas, H. T. Oxaard. Harry T. Peters. II. S. Page, Thomas 1". Byan, clarence Bobbins, W. E. D. stoke-. Ackley C. Hchuyler, Oakleigh Tborne. John R. Townsend. W. W. WlHock, Samuel Willeta and looeph E. Widener.
