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OFF FOR 3QQ MILE RACE Eight Thoroughbreds Among the Seventeen Starters Contest to End Friday. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 10. The endurance test from Camp Alfred Ynil in New Jersey to Washington, D. C, which besan today and concludes on the 14th, should do more than its predecessors to establish the type of horse best adapted for cavalry uses, as it will have a larger and more representative field than in any previous year. It. will be the first serious effort on the part of those who owe allegiance to the thoroughbred to .stablish the claims of that type. No cleau-bred entries were made in the first competition, which W. K. Brown, the Arab horse enthusiast of Berlin. X. II., confined to his own stock. Such tests are not new, many huving been held in continental countries, notably from Dieppe to Paris and Moscow to Petrograd. The general public was invited to enter horses in the ride of 1919. but the affair did not receive the patronage its sponsors expected, the candidates being in the main pure bred Arabs or grades of the same type, with the addition of a couple of Morgans. Last year the American Remount Association joined the original promoters of the test, which was held over the three-hundred and six miles between Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., and Camp Devens, Mass.. and the complexion of the contest was materially changed. There were a number of thoroughbreds and half-bred nominations. The outcome served to show the fallacy of putting anything but sound, well -seasoned and expertly trained horses in such a contest. There were twenty-seven candidates, and rider and equipment -weighed 245 pounds instead of 200 pounds as in 1919. The half-bred mare Mile. Denise. by Arch Oldham, owned and ridden by Major Stanley M. ICocli, who is chairman of the- sports and competition committee of the American Remount Association, won, with Rustem Hey, an Arab standard bred, second, and Rimkie, a halfrbred, by Howling Green, third. The distance was covered in -10 hours .17 minutes, as against Til hours, 20 minutes in 1919. SIXTY HUES PER DAY. The conditions governing the ride call for sixty miles per day for five consecutive clays, the distance to be .made in not lass than nine hours, nor more than twelve. Each rider must care for his own horse. Horses arc to be examined three times daily for pulse, respiration, temperature, lameness or fatigue. Any unfit horse to be disqualified by the judges. Final awards to be made on a basis of sixty per cent for condition judged daily, and at the conclusion of the ride, and forty per cent for speed. The judges are to be Major Henry Leonard, Colorado Springs, Colo. ; "Harry McNair, Chicago, 111., and Garner West, Garnersville, X. Y. In order to give a greater number of persons a chance to see the competition, it was determined to hold this years test in a more populous region than heretofore. The route established embraces Xow Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland and District of Columbia. The start was from Camp Alfred Vail near Red Rank, X. .1., tins morning. The stop -for tonight will be at the Trenton Fair Grounds. The second night will be spent at the fair grounds at Chester, la., and arrangements have been made to pass the third night at the rave track near Havre de Grace. The fourth stop over night will be. at the Pimlico race track, cm the outskirts of Baltimore, with the finish ou October 14 at the Washington monument in tin; capital. A, tin route will pass by the homes of the White Marsh, Radnor and Rose Tree Hunts, it is expected that the members of these organizations will be out in force to greet the sturdy horses and their gallant riders. There were seventeen starters, and of this number- eight are thoroughbreds, two saddle bred, one Morgan and the others pure bred or grade Arabians. The thoroughbreds have been receiving their final training at Camp Vail. Prior to that they were at Alexandria. Va.. where they were put in hard flesh by Major Stanley M. Koch and Lieut. Thomas If.: -McCreery. Major Koch, in a letter to a friend in this city on Wednesday last, had the following to say about the test and the preparatory work of the horses- in his charge. FAVORS OLD JUMPER WELDSHIP. "Its hard to pick the best ones. Any of those starting may show up well. Naturally,- I think Wcldship one of the best, or I would not have chosen him for a mount. Pathfinder is one of the surest of the lot, with Cosmic, Vagrant and Oriel close behind. "We have been here since September 10. From then up to last Friday we sent the horses twenty miles one day at about a six and a half mile gait, and the next day about eighteen miles at a four-mile gait. Since last Friday we have coveir-d thirty miles a day at a seven-mile gait up to today when we went thirty-seven miles at the same gait. Tomorrow we will go about, fifteen miles and on Thursday from thirty to thirty-five, depending upon the temperature, with only about ten miles a day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We have ben carrying full weight, 245 pounds, all the time, but commencing tomorrow we take off about thirty pounds. "The horses an; doing fine and most of them gained from ten to twenty pounds last Aveek. We weigh tlicm every Sunday. The grain ration has been increased to nearly thirty-five pounds a day for some of tin; bigger horses. Each horse is grazed for nearly an hour a day to offset the effects of the heavy grain feeding. We may not win, but we are surely going to have some horses in Washington on the 14th in good, condition." The following are the thoroughbreds and their riders, unlebs some changes were made at the eleventh hour: Vagrant, 0 years, by Allan-a-Dale Xuit Blanche, by. St. Saviour; 10 hands, weight 1,150 pounds Major A. II. Jones. Oswiu. 9 years old. by The Puritan Miss Padden, by tgl.v; lii.l li.mds, 1,150 pounds. Major W. 11. Xeillj. Gold. Review, imported 9 years old, by Oriolus Excitement, by Enthusiast; 10.1 hands, 1,150 pounds. Major R. G. Cullim. Pathfinder, 5 years old. by Firestone Margaret Alice, by Contestor; 15.2 hands, 995 pounds .Major C. L. Scott. . Cosmic, 8 years old, by Countless Mjosen. by My Boy II.; 15.3 hands, 1.0.r0 pounds. Major Louis Beard. Sands of Time, 5 years old, by Beach Sand Alma- K.. by Conrad; 15 hands, 1,100 pounds. Major De F, Morton. Oriel, 9 years old, by Oxford Rocdora, by St. Simonian II.; li hands, 1,010 pounds. Lieut. T. II. McCreery. The other- starters with their breeding and riders are appended. Shiiray saddle bred, J. Howard Leman. Kemah Prince Arab-Indian pony dam, A. W. Harris. Grant saddle bred, E. L. Sharp. Rusten Bey Arab-standard-bred, Capt. W. R. Allen. Crabbett pure-bred Arab, E. S. Humphrey. Toute Belle Anglo-Arab, J. W. Tompkins. Gouya Anglo-Arab, Lieut. Frank Tompkins. Ob La Anglo-Arab, M. Fody. Castor Morgan, Edward Goulettc. The trophy to the winner is a splendid cup awarded by W. R. Brown and Albert Harris, who gives nn additional .,750 in premiums.
