Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-22
SECOND VICTORY
FOR D. C. HORSE
Gold FoyIe, NiepoId Entry at
: Worthington Show, Wins
Novice Jumps.
BY stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY a stan Correspondent Of The Star.
PLEASANT HILL FARM, Jockeys
vile, Md, May 22.-Gold Foyle, beau
| tiful 6-year-oid mare, shown by Percy
NJ. Niepold of Washington, won the
novice jumpers class as the three-day
program OF the second annual Worth
ington Valley Horse Show was In au-
gurated here yesterday afternoon.
The event was one Of 20 features
which marked the opening of the meet
on the 3.000-acre estate Of G. Wilbur
Miller, adjoining the famous Maryland
Hunt Cup course. Thirty-two rivals,
the largest field of the day, were de-
feated by the Niepold entry's splendid
performance.
Gold Foyle'S victory was her second
major triumph in as many weeks, the
Washington mare having won the local
hunters class in the National Capital
Horse Show last week.
Yellow Ribbon Winner.
Another Capital exhibitor, Mai. G..
s. Patton, jr., scored yesterday when
Hukupu, fleet-footed, 6-year-old chest
nut gelding, won the yellow ribbon for
third place In the class for road hacks,
shown under saddle at q walk, trot
and canter. Hukupu captured the
Peter voorhees, De Graw Memorial Cup
in the recent National Capital Horse
Show
John Donnelly. a junior at George
town University in Washington, ex-
pert horseman and master of the Dom
nelly Stables of Boston, rode the Dom
nelly pride, Campanile, haShy 4-year-old
gelding, to blue ribbons in the novice
hunters and middleweight green hunt
ers classes and also placed fourth with
the chestnut horse in the middle and
heavyweight thoroughbred hunters COM
petition.
Robert Robey, Washington horseman,
rode Thundercrash, shown by Mrs.
Simon Patterson Of Pittsburgh, to third
in the lightweight thoroughbred hunt
erS and hunters hacks classes.
rs Ribbons Taken.
Thirteen Pennsylvania exhibitors,
showing some Of the finest hunting and
saddle horses in the Keystone State, col
lected 26 ribbons during the days pro-
ceedings. The famous hunting string
Of Richard K. Mellon, master of Rolling
Rock Farms. at Mgonier, Pa. alone &C
counted for 10 Of these awards, In
GLIDING three blues, i've reds, yellow
and white.
The Worthington Valley meet, which
is fast coming to the front to rank
with the National Capital, Devon and
other weil-known shows, has attracted
10 Washington exhibitors this season.
Representatives from the Capital are
Maj. Patton, BIT Woodland drive; G. p.
Plummer. 1901 Fifteenth street; @. w.
Rust, 1901 Fifteenth street; Vernon G.
Owen, 1881 street: Ray H. Norton,
Ills Buchanan street; PersiS Chase
Myers, 23l0 s street; Mai. r. Gilbreath,
ITO NJ street; z. z. Adamson, 6I0l
Fourth street; w. Frank Burrows, 4535
Wisconsin avenue, and Niepold, who
lives at 1924 TIhirty-eighth street.
The show, which win close tomorrow
features 65 classes for hunting and
saddle horses, while two exhibitions in
trick and tandem riding are being pre-
sented by soldiers from the Sd Cavalry
at Fort Myer, under direction Of Capt
H. J. Fitzgerald and Lieuts. w. A. Hol-
brook, Jr., and w. K. Noel One hun
dred and ten stables are encamped at
Pleasant Hill for the meet.