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Society Vies With Horses at Chestnut Hill Show
Brookline society leaders hosted the seventh annual Chestnut Hill Club open-air horse show on a cold day with hundreds attending. Miss Esther Foss and Miss Helen Foss led wins among the Foss siblings and other prominent owners like Mrs. Thomas G. Plant and Mrs. Larz Anderson claimed multiple ribbons across harness, saddle, and jumper classes, while J. H. Coulter and Leader eclipsed rivals in harness tandem.
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Brookline
Chestnut Hill Club
Chestnut Hill
Helen
Eugene N. Foss
Esther
Isabella L. Mumford
Thomas G. Plant
Larz Anderson
J. H. Coulter
Yes Sir
Thomas Plant
Dr. Reed
Sunlight
William Purcell
J. Sumner Draper
Apollo
James Smith
Noble Xerxes
Foss
Virginia
Esther Foss
Firefly
Alice Thorndike
Blaze
Ayrshire
Elizabeth Silsbee
James Jackson
Donavan
Margaret Manning
Frank Briggs
B. C. Ware, Jr
Pepper
E. C. Ware, Jr
Harry L. Burrage
Hayden Channing
Carnation
Horatio Hathaway, Jr
Mr. Hathaway
Miss Silsbee
Norfolk Hunt
C. m
Ted
Low
Helen Foss
B. G
Br. m
Duke
Bik. G
Richard Sakenstill
Nancy
J. J. Weil
Ch. m
Ch. G
Thomas Powers
Ernest B. Dane
Jersey
Belmont
E. Mahoney
Runaboute
Sewell H. Fessenden
Lady Love
R. m
Teddy
Richard M. Saltonstall
Donovan
Reginald Gray
Sunshine
Susan J. Appleton
Princess
Alice Sargent
Huerness
Robert E. Doyle
Ayrshire King
B. m
Nora Saltonstall
Esmond
The
Mirs
Beatrice Smith
Elizabeth F. Kelly
the Dude
Charles W. Dabney
Theodora
Osborne Howe
Genevieve
Frank R. Briggs
Beaucaire
Eliot C. Clarke
C. C. Ware, Jr
George “Mumford
Rufus
Isabella Lee
M. Maurice Dimond
Lady Allen
Robert ¥. Davie
Prince of Ayre
Ee Foss
R. G. Tower
Dixie
Ellot A. Clarke
Lucy E. Cobb
Peacock
Lady Somerset
Bether Foss
Henry G. Vaughan
Babs
Stewart
White
Salambo
Chestnut Hill Horse Show
Ayeshire King
Eleanor Sprague