The New York Times/1918/11/11/Horse Show Opens Today
HORSE SHOW OPENS TODAY.
Judges and Exhibitors at Breakfast Preparatory to Display.
While preparations for the opening of the Horse Show at Madison Square Garden today were receiving the finishing touches and some three hundred horses were being exercised on the tanbark, the men responsible for this week's exhibition in aid of the United War Work campaign, together with the judges and some of the prominent exhibitors, including many army officers, were the guests of John McE. Bowman at a horse show breakfast yesterday in the music room of the Biltmore Hotel.
Covers were laid for two hundred inside and outside of the huge horseshow table. Among those present were Alfred B. Maclay, Reginald C. Vanderbilt, E. R. Bowne, Arthur G. Leonard, Thomas E. Wilson, John R. Thompson and Guy Woodin of Chicago; R. J. Skofield, Treasurer; Charles W. Smith, Secretary, and Frank T. Clarke, Superintendent of the Horse Show; James G. Marshall, Charles A. Baudouine, George B. Hulme, Carll S. Burr, Clinton B. Seeley, E. Vonder Horst Koch, J. A. P. Ramsdell, Bexley Hocombe, Alden S. Blodget, H. Stuart Hollis, George Willing, William H. Wanamaker, William T. Hunter and Harry D. Holloway of Philadelphia; Hamilton H. Salmon, Fred S. Field of Brockton, Mass.; I. J. R. Muurling, Louis Haight, William Durland, Ernest Iselin, E. S. J. McVickar, Thomas J. Regan, James J. Fox, Guy A. Ward, W. S. Blitz, George A. Coleman, W. A. McGibbon, Peter Hauck, Jr.; Major John K. Brown, Franklin B. Jourdan, W. R. Coe, Major D. O. Nelson, Rufus C. Finch, G. D. F. Leith and Major Alfred Wendt.
Reversing the usual order of things, the judges of the Horse Show will tonight give a dinner at the Manhattan Club to James McLean, President of the National Horse Show Association; Judge William H. Moore, Robert A. Fairbairn and Alfred B. Maclay, the four men who have made possible this week's unreserved benefit for the United War Work Campaign Fund.
Judging at the Garden will begin at 11 o'clock this morning. The following is the program for today:
| 11:00—Class 25—Pony mares, suitable for breeding polo ponies; |
| 11:15—Class 15—Hackney stallions. |
| 11:30—Class 21—Hackney fillies, three years old. |
| 11:45—Class 22—Hackney fillies, two years old. |
| 12:00—Class 3—Trotters, stallions. |
| 12:15—Class 29—Pony stallions. |
| 12:30—Class 74—Shetland ponies in harness. |
AFTERNOON.
| 2:00—Class 87—Saddle horses. |
| 2:30—Class 82—Ponies in harness, children to drive. |
| 2:45—Class 42—Harness horses, novice. |
| 3:05—Class 86—Saddle horses, novice. |
| 3:35—Class 34—Trotters in harness. |
| 4:05—Class 46—Harness horses, novice. |
| 4:15—Class 101—Ponies under saddle, children to ride; John McK. Bowman cups. |
| 4:30—Class 88—Ladies' saddle horses. |
| 5:00—Class 132—Hunters and jumpers, first section. |
EVENING.
| 8:00—Class 132—Hunters and jumpers, second section. |
| 8:30—Class 44—Harness horses, novice. |
| 8:50—Class 85—Saddle horses, novice. |
| 9:20—Class 77—Pairs of ponies in harness. |
| 9:35—Class 52—Harness horses. |
| 9:50—Class 117—Ladies' qualified hunters, up to carrying 165 pounds. |
| 10:30—Class 128—Officers' horses, over the course; William H. Moore Cup. |