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INTEREST IN HORSE SHOW Class of Tfioroughbreds to Be Striking Feature Breeding- of Mile. Dfchise. BT C. J, FITZ GERALD. .NBW YORK, N. Y., November 11. The National Horse Show Association, whose annual exhibition has for many decades boon a feature of social and economic life in the East, Will be held as usual in Madison Square Garden, November 15 to 20. and judging from the numbers and quality of the entries and the interest which is being taken in the event, it will be as successful as any of its predecessors. . Hunter and saddle classes have for many years been the chief features" of tlie exhibition; but this year there will be a remarkable display of military horses, there being no less tliah sixteen classes for animals Of this description. As tlii federal authorities are eager to promote tlie production of this type iii every part of the Union the show will have an important educational aspect. The judging will be eagerly followed by experts from communities where the Remount Association either has already secured a footing or is hard at work making eon-Verts to a system: of horse improvement which will bo. a guaranty that our cavalry will be as well equipped with good horses as that of other nations. Tlie Remount Service favors the thoroughbred as a . top-cross iii securing this type. The display of stallions of that breed, as well as the clean-breds, half and three-quarter-breds among the trooper mounts, and in the huriter and saddle classes, will as a result have a greater attraction for the public than ever before. Most of those who are behind this Remount movement saw active . service abroad and have an intimate knowledge of what was accomplished by thoroughbreds, and the grades of that, remarkable family on the battle front riot only by the" horses from the United States, ljut those of France arid England as well. The Remount plan was really formulated in -France and was adopted by the fed-eral authorities on the recommeudation of its most competent experts.. It calls for- the distribution of thorbugliljred sires in every breeding center .of the United States, and by next spring 110 of them will be at tho disposal of the farmers and breeders of the country. 1 Under the .circumstances, the class for thoroughbred sfallioris. will ;bc a striking feature of the show this year. The federal government will be represented by three of its best horses from the station at Front Royal, Va. These will bo the eleven-year-ohl Ganadore, by The Commoner Mountain Mist, by Magrietizer; the five-year-old. Zenith, by Ogden Zahra, by Mazagan; and the six-year-old horse Greek Legend, by Polyirielus Kvadne, by Sidus. Opposed to them will be Chief Lally, a five-year-old, horse .from The Jockey .Clubs Breeding Bureau, located at the White Plains station of the New York State Constabulary, and. three other well-bred stallions. Chief Lally is a grand young horse, by King James Rosslare, by Sempronius, and whose third dam Rbseville was the dam of Ben Brush. Lord Rock Sand, one of the other contestants, is by Rock Sand Lady Violet, by The 111 Used, ne is entered in the. name of Col., H. S. Borden, while yet another competitor is. the eleven-year-oid Bulgaria, .by Adam: Miss nn.mbnrg, by Hamburg. This horse is the property of W. D. Cleland. LESSON OF TEST RACE. The outcome of the recent 300-mile endurance race over the country roads of Vermont, New Hampshire and.. Massachusetts,; from Fort Ethan Allen to Camp Devcns, which was. won by the grade thoroughbred mare Mlie. Dehise, with another grade thoroughbred, Bunkie, in third place, both of which were trained and ridden by officers of the Remount Service, is considered a vindication of this method of breeding: to obtain cavalry horses. It required rib such competition to determine the fact, however, as foreign governments have repeatedly demonstrated the superiority of clean-bred or half-bred animals in trials of a like nature. In the last one held in Frunce the first ten horses at the finish Were thoroughbreds. . Something of the breeding of Mile. Derilse will be Interesting. She was born in Texas, and was sired by Arch Oldham, a sou of Gallantry, -by Galopin, dam Pearl Barnes, by Barnes, a son of Billet. Her dam was a mare that was known to be nearly thoroughbred. John A. Morris, the founder of Morris Park and son of Francis Morris, who, in company with Richard Ten Broeck, invaded the British turf more than a, half century ago, sent a number of American mares abroad to be mntcd with the best of tlie English sires. The Longfellow darii Jennie B. was among them. She was the dam of Gallantry, tlie grahdsire of- Mile. Denisc. Gallantry, Mars, Plevna, Barnes and other sires of blood were sent? to the Morris ranch at Kerrville, Texas. The breeders of that region were invited to send their mares to the Morris horses and the strains of pure blood were disseminated all through that part of the country until even the cattle ponies had it. It is a well-known fact that polo ponies rearer in the Kerrville country can outrun those from other parts of the Lone Star State. No claim of breeding is made for Bunkie on the dams side. His sire. Bowling Brook, -a son of the horse King- Galop, by Galopin, w;as once owned by G. W. Poole and raced throughout the West and South with considerable, success. Although lame, Bunkie showed the courage of his forbears and went through the test with honor. EASY FOR SOUND THOROUGHBRED. In commenting on the performance of the winnerj which went througk the test with only a loss of twenty-five pounds in weight, August Belmont,, the chairman of The Jockey Club, who has been most generous in his donations of thoroughbred stallions to the federal government, said: "The promoters of the test are entitled to the greatest credit, as they have shown the value of blood. If a grade thoroughbred- can win such events, how much easier it would be for a goodi sound, thoroughbred properly trained to score!" John E. Madden, who had, two trotters engaged, one of Which was disabled by a kick, also regards tho result of the endurance race as a victory for the thoroughbred. "All the blood in our horses that fs not thoroughbred is scrub," was his cbm-s ment after the .race. "That applies to every family of horses bred anywhere." , Pierre Lorillard, Jr., one of the American officers serving abroad who were active in the formation of the remount service, and who is a director of the National Horse Show Association, said in the same connection a few days ago: "The outcome of that race shows that we are right in our horse breeding experiments. I would like to see some obstacles in the course of another year, particularly ditches, as, there are always plenty of those to cross in any campaign. The proper type of hiount ought to be able to take a man ariy-where. Mile. Denisc will be seen at the Garden with Major Stanley Koch. Who rodfe her in the endurance race, in the saddle. Major Koch shares in the honor of the great little mares achievement, as lie gave her splendid care at the close of each days sixty-mile period and during this race he and Lieutenant McCreery, who rode Biinkie, adhered strictly to a formulated schedule which conscrvcd! tlie powers ot their mounts in a manner that excited, tlie admiratioh of those who followed the movements of the contestants throughout the test.
