that one can share with one's friend; with all the mem- 

 bers of one's family, and practically without limitation, 

 in a truly community sense. What could be more enjoy- 

 able than sharing the advantages of physical benefit with 

 one's sweetheart, or with one's wife and children, or with 

 one's business associate, or even casual acquaintances, 

 imbued with congenial and similar tastes. For, after all, 

 man is a social animal and anything which one enjoys 

 with one's fellows, by virtue of that very fact, takes on 

 an added enjoyment. 



These are but a few of the conspiring causes for the 

 ever-growing popularity of the horse, as an instrument of 

 both benefit and pleasure, in all parts of the country at 

 the present time, and strange to say, the automobile at 

 first feared as the horse's deadly rival, has become instead 

 of proving such, one of the very means by which the use of 

 the horse has been stimulated. 



While it is true that the machines have crowded the 

 horse off the city streets and boulevards, and from the 

 country road, it has, at the same time, brought the park, 

 the bridle path, the country estate, and the riding school 

 right to our door. And, added to all of these advantages, 

 which pertain to the horse in merely a personal and pri- 

 vate pleasure capacity, there is added also the vast realm 

 of the tanbark and the show ring, wherein man's nature Elmes, 

 as an imitative and competitive being finds luilimited Director 

 scope for unlimited expression. 



The show ring affords opportunity for the expression 

 of every form of ambition and of all of the vicissitudes of 

 uncertainty. It is the most democratic forum known to 

 the world and one of the places where more than any other 

 one must stand upon one's own feet and be rated in exact 

 proportion to one's own demonstrable ability. Prince and 

 pauper meet here upon an absolutely common plane and 

 it is one of the few places still remaining unoccupied in 



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