The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-18
A Review of the Week Written
by an Expert.
THOSE DESERVING CREDIT
President Anderson, vice-President
Beattie, Secretary Warthen and
Manager smith-The Work
of Local Horses.

With favorable conditions and a splen-
different classes, the third annual ea
hibtion OF the Richmond Horse Show AS
eociation was o grand success and re-
flected much credit on the management,
including President J. I. Anderson. Vice
President Harry c. Beattle. Secretary w
Q. Warthen. Manager C. w. Smith. and
other officers. The attendance, notwiiti-
standing the depression in the fnancin,
world. which has strongly affected Rich
mond, was large throughout the week and
shows that the Horse Show is an intense
~ popular fad and. has come 10 stay.
Well known stables from prominent
northern centers were here In forca with
prize winners that have held their own at
the big shows all down the line, but at
that Virginia bred horses made a great
display, and their work on the tan
bark brought forth unbounded applause
This applies, Of course, mostly T., h.n.
tcrs and Jumpers. because harncss inrscs
like those exhibited by Mrs. John Gerkcn.
DR.. w Z. Woodend. Mrs. James B. NJ.
Grosvenor, G. Trowbridge Hollister. Mr..
and Mrs. A. f. Dieterick and other New
Workers, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Deford,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. G. Williams, of Balti-
more. and others OF prominence, were Of
real class and able to compete success-
fully in any company. but even there
home bred products were in evidence
Fine Performers.
II, class 3s, open Off all, on Tuesday
evening, r. NJ. Taylor's Grey Rock was
first. Sidney j. Holloway's Free Lance
second. the Virginia bred horses Hunts
man and Blizzard, third and fourth
Huntsman Is a clover looking bay geld
ing. owned by Morris and Josl!n. Of
Campbell, Albemare county, while Biz
zard is son of the Iron Horse" Blizzen
and bred by Harry c. Beattie. by whom
he was ridden. though owned by Lewis
G. Young. Of New York. Blizzard made
an excellent showing in several other
classes. and Mr.. Beattie, who has do
vcloped him. looks upon the son OF
Bitten as the making of a real crnci
The champion high jumper. Heather.
bloom. the bay gcldings from Howard
Wiliet's Gedney farm. White Plains, n.
Y, was booked for several performances,
. among them an effort to beat his own
record OF seven feet nine inches, but was
withdraw on account of the death Of
MI. Willet's SON. This, of course was q
disappointment but was partially atoned
for by the work of Richard Donnelly.
who rides Hcatherbloom. on other horses.
among them the bay geldinG Rifle. owned
by himself. Donnely, who halls from
Mamaroneck. NJ w. had several entries.
Other stables Of hunters and Jumpers fur
nlshed from II distance that furnished
sport of a rare sort were those Of Sidney
j. Holloway and his sister Miss Marian
Holloway, OF Scarsdale. N. y, with
Chappie and Free Lance; Charles Pfizer,
of Bernardsville, n, j. with Your Fellow
and Miss Henrietta Weatherhee, Of
Mamaroneck. N. Y, with Lady Win
some.
Young Holloway was revelation, MS
horsemanship being well night perfect
as Is that of his sister, Hiss Holloway
but even in that particular home talent in
nowise suffered by comparison, and the
comments that follow apply mostly to
horses either bred or owned In Vir-
glnia.
Mr.. Fa'rfax's Horses.
One OF the honorary vice-presdents,
member of the Ring COMMITTEES, and also
ali exhibitor and an interested spectator
at each performance of the Horse Show
was the Hon. Henry Fairfax, of Oak Hill
Farm, near Aldie, in Loudoun county,
and one of the best known and most sue
ccssful hackney breeders in America. a
triumph Of Oak Hill breeding, pleasant
for Mr.. Fairfax and his friends to wit
ness, was that of the bay geldinG, Pitter
Fatter, by the hackney sire. Northern
Light, dam the imported Welsh pony
potlett, in the stable of DR.. w. Il. Wood
end, for whom lie has proven most con-
sistent winner. He was sold at four
years old from Oak Hill to William Ellis,
of Philadelphia, and later passed to Dr.
Woodend Pltter'Patter Is phenomenal
high doer and grand individuality with it,
lie took the blue ribbon in class 10 for
ponies in harness on Tuesday evening,
and was second to his stable companion,
Melody, holder of practically an unbeat-
en- record at Wednesdays matinee On
Wednesday evening, Fancy the bay mare,
Just from Oak IIill and green, was second
ia the Woodend entry. Maple Lear,
noted winner. in class %, for horses l5,2
or over gais required, walk. trot and
canter Fancy was sired by Danesfort,
dam a half breed mare, MI Fairfax has
scored conspicuous success as breeder,
pnd Oak Hill Farm will live In history
as the home of many noted horses, among
them imported Matchless, of Iondsporo,