Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — U. S. HORSE DECLARED FIRST [ARTICLE]

U. S. HORSE DECLARED FIRST

Fico, Ridden by Lieutenant Adair, Leads Big Field In Broad Water Jump. New York.—The United States won the international broad water jump at the horse show and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt won the Nata challenge cup contest for the third year in succession with his Sir James, thereby taking possession of the trophy, valued at SBSO. The latter event was confined to amateurs driving their own horses attached to rigs. William P. Kearney, driving his splendid black stallion. Triumph, war given Becond prize, the reserve ribbon. , Flco, ridden by Lieut. H. R. Adair of the Tenth United States cavalry, outclassed thirty-five other horses, including several foreign entries, ip the first-named event by jumping eighteen feet. Second prize went to Spes, ridden by Lieut. C. H. Labouchere of the Royal Holland Efuzars, and the third to Deceive, exhibited by the United States Mounted Service school.