Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-04
SENSATIONS MARK
CULPEPER SHOW
Exciting Card in Running OF
.TWenty-Seventh Annual
Horse Events.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ORANGE, Va, July 4.-Sensational
victories for E. l.. Redmon's 3-year -old
gelding, Port Light, and Miss Eliza
beth Nesbit's Cathode Ray featured the
opening day of the Twenty-seventh An
nual Culpeper Horse Show at the fair
grounds yesterday.
Five classes for jumpers. two saddle
horse divisions, two breeding classes
and two events for ponies were con-
tested during the morning and early
afternoon. They were followed by four
| fiat races and steeplechase to round
out an exciting day for more than 500
spectators. The thousands Of specta-
tors expected for the Fourth of July
meet were to be offered 10 classes, with
entries that were expected to exceed
200. The races were again to follow
the show events.
Port Light, from Redmon's Middle
burg Stable, captured two blues in
quick succession, winning consecutively
the contest for 3-year-old hunters and
the green hunter division.
Cathode Ray Wins.
Miss Nesbit's Cathode Ray, a 6-year-
old well known to the crowds, took
the open hunters and Jumpers and
added the lightweight hunters blue to
MS already impressive collection of
prizes. Anthony and George Rives of
Cobham, Va, showed outstanding sad
die horses, their gelding, Johnnie
walker, taking first honors in the class
Tor green show horses and Chincuep
In winning the ladies' saddle event.
Other exhibitors often rated in rib
oons were: Mrs. John Hay Whitney
OF OppervllIe, whose entries received
two seconds and third, and Mrs. Allen
Potts, veteran horsewoman of Gordons-
vile, Va, who carried off the same
prizes with her mounts.
Inc open half-nile event. which was
delayed almost half an hour by milling.
disorganized starts, nevertheless offered
variety of amusement and surprises
The collision of excited animals at the
starting line resulted in dismountine
Jockey Tommy Clatterbuck, whose
mount. Linda Misha, owned by Mrs
Mary I. Plaster, fell on him. Clatter-
DUCK was paved as other horses at
tempted to escape from the tanple and
was carried to the Enclosure, his face
seemingly in bad condition. He later
raIned and returned to the saddle, only
10 be thrown a second time.
Another Jockey Thrown.
M. H. Everhart's Major Finley also
dlslodged his jockey in this race. When
the event finally got under way and
was hnlshed as superb climax to the
luolcrous happenings, B. E. Murphys
Captain High dashed past the Judges
stand as the thoroughbreds came back
Tor unsaddling, rushed toward the pad
COCK with his jockey Juggling madiy to
stop him and took the four-foot iron
gate at leap, tossing his rider in the
dirt. and galloped to his stall alone. =.
me closest race of the meet was the
fourth, quarters of a mile
feature, In which Reign Celene fought
a neck-and-neck battle for a half of
the distance with Mrs. A. S. Bowman's
Schley b, which finally nosed out to
victory in the last 200 yards.
The steeple- chase looked like a tight
scrap between Radio and other logged
contenders until Harold Barnes Sammy
Mack pulled away from the field in
the last round of the course and left
large gaps of daylight behind him as
he. romped home to an easy win.
Summary Of Events.
Summary of events in which a silver
plate was given, in addition to cash
prize:
Glass No. l. halfbreed sucking colts
First. brown FLY, RuSssl Settle; second
chestnut colt. C. w. Vowel.
Glass No. 5, brood mares, mares suit
able to breed hunters, either bred this
season Or with foal at side-First. Wild
Rose, bay mare. H. H. Norman; second,
Polly, Anna, bay mare, Miss Adelila
Vowel.
Glass No 10. saddle horses, confor-
nation, style, action, PAGES and nan
ners considered at a walk, trot and
canter, for horses that have not won a
blue ribbon in saddle class prior to
l93l-First, Johnnie Walker, bay geld
ing, Anthony and George Rives; second, !
Lovely Lady, bay mare, Mrs. Allen
Potts. third, Ice Maiden, gray mare,
Mrs. Allen Potts.
Glass %. So entries, hunters and
jumpers, open to all, over four jumps
at four feet, best performance won,
manner considered-First, Cathode Ray,
chestnut gelding, Miss Elizabeth Nesbit;
second, Rock Arden, bay gelding, Mrs |
mare, Capt. Ewart Johnston.
Glass No. 6. ponies IL hands and !
under, judged as child's pony and rid |
den by children under Is years of age
First Trixie, Henry Ferneyhough: sec |
ond, Silver Gray, c. Randolph Halla-
day.
Glass No. IA, hunters, for 3-year .olds,
shown over jumps not to exce3d three |
and a half feet, conformation and per-
lOTIudI-Ce " COuIlI ou-OU-HAt ot, 1OlL
Light, bay gelding, E. E. Redmon;
second,' Gull Dale, chestnut gelding, |
Mrs D. N Lee; third, Don Diable, gray |
gelding, Mrs. John Hay Whitney.
Glass No. IL, ladies' saddle horses,
ridden by ladies, general manners con-
sidered-First, Chinquepin, gray geld
ing. Anthony and George Rives; sec
ond, Eove Token, brown gelding, Mrs. ,
Allen Potts; third, Mistress Anne, chest
nut mare, Anthony and George Rives.
Glass 16, green hunters, SO horses
entered, conformation IS per cent, per-
Torrance rs per cent, 4-year-olds, over
jumps not exceeding four feet, 3-year-
olds, over three and half feet-First,
Port Light. hay gelding, E. F. Redmon;
second, Don Diable. gray gelding, Mrs.
John Hay Whitney; third, Odd Socks,
chestnut gelding, Mrs. D. N. Lee.
Glass No. 10, middle and heavy weight
hunters, for horses carrying ITS pounds
over jumps not exceeding four and a
half feet, conformation 25 per cent, |
performance and manners rs per cent
First, Broken Glass, bay gelding, Mrs |
D. N. Lee; second. Boiling Green, bay |
mare, Mrs. John Hay Whitney; third, |
Main Spring, brown, gelding, E. l.. Red |
mon.
C1acc No IT 1ichtueipht hunters