The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
Latest News Of Interest b IorseIen Scholastic and
But Few Light Harness
Horses at Annual Show
Candy Kid Reminds Horse.
men Of May T., Who Raced
on Local Tracks.
By L. D. SALE.


BY l.. ID. SALE. !.
The horse show has come and gone.
As an exhibition OF high-class horse
iesh and skillful ho-semanship. the
roundup for the week left nothing to be
desired with single exception-the light
harness exhibit. That was lamentab,y
weak, not because the auto has driver.
from the field of. competition all good
horses of the light harness type: but
rather owing to the indifference of hors.
owners in regard &c the matter.
II is to be regretted that this indif-
ference exists. Although II must be adj
nitted that there are fewer light-harness
horses. of the exhibition type. around in
these parts than for the past thirty or
more years; enough remain in the hands
of private individuals to have made n
more brilliant showing than was the
case on Monday last when only four
horses competed.
John o. Cheers entry. Candy Kid, who
won the blue In the light harness class
on Monday, carried observing horsemen
back twenty years when his beautiful
sorrel grandmother, May T, 2:30, was
imported to Washington from old West
moreland County, Va. by z. B. Laf-
ferty, and raced on local tracks quite
successfully. May. rs mother was a
granddaughter of the famous Lexington.
Son of Barton. She served during the
entire civil war in the Confederate cav
airy. and outlasted and outran every
: other animal that was enlisted from her
section in Fitzhugh Lees brigade Bred
to Mowhawk, a noted Westmoreland
County sire, she produced May T.
!, The last-named stinted to Onyeha
wilkes. 2:2GA. produced a black filly that.
for a time, was untamable. This flly
became the property Of Frank B. Swartz,
of this city, who bred her to Kinster.
21i%. and Candy Kid is the result of
that union. The kid is really the prop
erty of Mr.. Benton G. Ray, owner of the
beautiful estate in Montgomery County
known as Northwest Farm and located
between Wheaton and ColesviIle May +
passed, soon after her arrival here. to
Harry Lansdale. thence to Lewis Hodges
and died three years ago in st. Mary
County, after producing two foals
Thomas Cannon drove Mary T. to her
record.
And while on the subject of Mr.. Ray
and his kid" we must not neglect TO
state that Mr.. Ray is already at work
on his third annual horse show, which
will be held August IL, on those famous
meadow bottoms which comprise one of
the many attractions of his vast domain
in Montgomery. The Northwest Farm
horse show is an event as eagerly looked
forward to by the inhabitants. of Mont
= gomery as is the county fair held at
Rockville or the annual coming of Bar
mum & Bailey's circus. Women. men,
and children gather on Meadow Bot
toms by the thousands every August,
~
Washington pays a handsome tribute to
the great event; for the best there is of
horsefiesh there congregates also. A
strong pressure is being made on Mr..
Ray to have the show cover two days
instead of one day. He viii not decide
upon the proposition without giving it
more deliberate thought
Dr. John E. Sansbury, owner of Forest
vile Driving Park. may give meeting
Decoration Day. May 30. He has the
subject under consideration, as Bright
view Farm will not open its track gates
until Monday, June 2 DR.. Sansbury's
health has been in delicate condition
for some weeks past. which accounts for
the passive state of affairs at Forestville.
William Anderson has four or five young
and aged horses which he is working for
speed on the track. chief of the lot being
the three1year-old Bingo. that is lightning
fast at the Pece. Bingo, thus far, has not
needed the straps to keep him on the
pace. and it is claimed he can show miles
around Dds.
P. ]. O'Keefe, long prominently con-
nected with local light harness affairs,
has decided to part with the trotting
mare Mamie Riley. and will hook up In
the near future with touring car. Shade
of Hambletonian 10. getter of trotters!
What will happen next? We would as
soon expect TO hear that Michael Morris
had abandoned bachelorhood and the
simple life, or that Maurice Joyce had
purchased Analostan Island for summer
residence as such startling information.
Who may we trust now to uphold the
honor of the American trotting breed
when such a stanch champion as p. J.
deserts the ranks? Mr.. O'Keefe, how
ever. has long been true to his first love.
Price rarely ever stood in his way when
he really wanted to buy, nor when he
wanted TO sell Among the best he has
owned were Finch, 2:11A. and Miss Hob
son. 2:17A
Thomas Cannon. of Winchester. writes
through his 5000 per snnum private sec
rotary, from the fifty-fourth floor of his
palatial headquarters in the now famous
apple town. that he thinks he has few
of the greatest ever" in his present sta
BILE of earth burners. Taking free ac-
count of Cannon's noted imagination, due
IN part to the suns rarified rays, and
rectifed apple Juice. the only liquid re-
freshmen now openly dispensed In the
town, We candidly admit, nay. we freely
assert, that, with a few mental reserva-
lions. perhaps. Thomas has the greatest.
in fact. the most stupendous equine ag-
gregation of speed wonders the Valley
has ever witnessed under one tent And
we only regret that our good comrade
and stanch friend. Joe Wright, should
have been out down in the prime Of his
usefulness and not be able TO see ii all.
Some of the super-heated atmosphere
we find blowing through Cannon's- writ
ten conversation. we viii attempt to put
IN imperishable print for the benefit OF
posterity. It Is TO the effect that one
Winchester Girl Is very fast Knowing
Cameron as we %. we are in duty bound
to remark that fhis particular girl Is not
the only girl Cameron has had attached
to his string in the course of long and
busy life. that was inclined to be rapid
gaited-in- fact. a two-tenner. And, we
might truthfuify add. wore no extras ,ex-
cept, perhaps pleasant smile, peeka-
boo waist. and open-work socks. When
Cameron. further along. relates, with a
charm all his own, that he has worked
the girl from Winchester, gresn as she Is.