RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



'* When the mare Ruritania came into the ring 

 on Saturday afternoon, November 22, 1902, we no- 

 ticed that she did not go sound, and we ruled her 

 out as unsound. We notified the driver, Mr. Webb, 

 the ring committee, and two of the judges to this 

 effect. After we had made the above reports, the 

 ring committee decided to allow the driver of the 

 mare to unharness her and lead the mare to halter 

 in the ring. Two of us held to our opinion that 

 the mare was not free from lameness, and one 

 thought she went sound. She again became a com- 

 petitor, and was awarded first prize." 



The daily journals made a sensation of the story, 

 and bitter feeling was engendered, but there was 

 no change of awards. Colonel Lawrence Kip had 

 then passed over to the majority, and I have often 

 wondered what he would have said had he been alive. 

 It was in Philadelphia that his mares were ruled 

 out as unsound, and seven years later a New Yorker 

 charged that he had been discriminated against in 

 the New York show, and in favor of a Philadelphian. 

 It was something like wayward chickens coming 

 home to roost. 



Mr. Hoffman, who always tries to send his horses 

 before judges in perfect condition, and whose taste 

 for appointments is second only to that displayed 

 by Colonel Kip, all through the animated controversy 

 held Mr. E. T. Stotesbury blameless. The Phila- 

 delphia banker was not present and knew nothing of 

 the affair until after the award had been made. 



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