Evening star., 1933-05-11
Three BIC EVENTS
HOLD HORSE SHOW
SPOTLIGHT TODAY
SizeabIe Crowd on Hand at
Bradley Farms Despite
Bad Weather.
DEGRAW TROPHY CLASS
OUTSTANDING CONTEST
Touch-and. Out and Handicap Jump
Vie With It in Point of
Excitement.

With three Of its most exciting events
scheduled for this afternoon, the Ma
tional Capital Horse Show swung into
, its second session at 1880 pm. today
/ at Bradley Farms. Md.
Undiscouraged by bad breaks in the
weather, a sizeable crowd of spectators
was on hand as the first class was
called. Prior to the opening contest,
the Junior League Of washington,
which Is sponsoring the show, served
luncheon at its food tent and set in
| operation the numerous refreshment
| booths, side shows and other features
managed by its members.
The Peter Voorhees, DeGraw Memo
rial Trophy class for local hunters is
the outstanding contest listed today
with the we'll filled touch-and-o class
and the handicap jump vieing with 1t
in point of excitement and interest for
! the crowd. Other divisions to be run
of during the afternoon are for quail
fled or green hunters, lightweight; for
! the best saddle horse, ridden by the
owner or member of his family; for
! road hacks; for and year olds suit
able to become hunters for park saddle
horses and thoroughbred hunters.
Victories for Whitney.
The opening session of the show
yesterday afternoon amounted to moth
ing more nor less than a Whitney day
celebration.
Before the usual light first-day crowd
Of 600 spectators, Mrs. John Hay
Whitney of Upperville, Va. watched
| her redoubtable string of hunters win
exactly so per cent of the prizes Of
i fered during the afternoon. Entered
in Of the 10 classes. Mrs. Whitney's
horses carried off five blue ribbons and
one white. In the division for quail
! ified or green hunters, heavy or middle
weight, her famous hunter Bon Diable
| winner Of the 1888 Middleburg hunter
trials was unplaced
Despite the predominance Of Whitney
colors throughout every competition
yesterday, the honors in each class were
hotly contested. Without exception the
/ quality OF performances was better than
in any past year of the National Capt.
tai. promising keen rivalry in the more
important tests to be faced in the
future.
Breeding classes for and 3 year
olds shown in hand, and 3 and year
olds shown under saddle. opened the
proceedings, and coincidentally began
Mrs. Whitney's winning streak. She
led her 3-year-old Loro. bay son Of
Maccay- Humanitarian, into the ring to
capture the lead-out class. and re-
turned for another blue Immediately
afterward, riding him in the second
| class. T. H. Somerville's Wilderkit, a
Wilderness colt, was second in the first
class. and Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus
one.
Green Hunter Class.
The class for green hunters, middle
and heavy weight, only meant another
blue to Mrs. Whitney, for her 4-year-
old Nobody's Fool won handily over
Miss Mary Ellen Corby's Sciota. Clifton
Farms Master Eclipse, one of the better
performers of the day, was third.
In the interim between hunter
,, classes, two saddle-horse divisions were
run off with Mrs. George P. Plum
| mer's Clearanfast victor over five other
thoroughbred saddlers. while Vernon G
Owens aged Harriet Lee won the round
| for local saddle horses.
Mrs. Whitney sent in her fourth
winner in the lightweight green hunters
| which went to the 3-year-old Spring
Hope, by Mad Halter out of Cullinan
| Miss Evelyn Walkers B'wana Muk'
| was second and Mr. Somerville's Sargent
third. This class brought the first fall
of a series that occurred during the
afternoon. when Miss Persis Chase
Myers Ticonderoga bucked her of a:
she entered the ring and, after she had
remounted, threw her again with a
blank refusal at the first fence. She
was uninjured
Clearanfast, Mrs Plummer's chestnut
which won the 1882 reserve champion
ship at this ground, scored well earned
victory in the division for qualified or
green hunters of the heavier sort. Win
ming, despite two light faults in per.
| formances over the seven jumps, and
also in spite of excess fat, tending to
Claranfast was first choice over Mrs
Cary Jackson's Sand Den, handsome
5-year- old. inclined to be overcautious
at his jumps Jack Rhinehart's
Decanter was third.
Fifth Blue Ribbon.
By the end of the class for hunters
other than thoroughbred, Mrs. whitney
virtually had placed herself in posi-
ton to say to the judges, stop me II
this bores you" Heavy turf and slip
perry going notwithstanding, she rode
her own Hopeful Jim to clean per-
formance over the outside course, and
thereby collected a fifth blue ribbon for
her trophy room. There were seven
faultless jumping exhibitions in this
class, and the judges considered and
reconsidered the score OF entries before
final awards were made. Master Eclipse
took second place for Clifton Farms,
while F. M. McConihe's steady mare,
Easter Sunday. ridden by Miss Evelyn
Walker, was third.
Planned as a climax to the days
sport, the modified Olympic class proved
too much OF a test for all but one horse
among thirty starters. Miss Julia
Writings Quicksilver, a veteran OF many
campaigns on the Eastern horse show
circuit, turned in the only clean round
over the special course, and Ernest
Woolf's noted Jumping Fool was sec
ond. Stanley Green Of Leesburg gave
Quicksilver perfect ride over the
eight stiff jumps, all Of them four feet
and over. The tricks which caught all
but the wary Whiting grey were two
apparently innocent brush jumps with
bars concealed on either side. Almost
any horse that has jumped brush has
formed the habit of going through the
tops, but those that did yesterday
promptly scored a disastrous knockdown
on the bars.
Two dangerous falls occurred in this
class, both luckily without injury to
any one Allen Hechter Of Baltimore
took a spill over the second fence of
the in-and-out when he jumped the
barrier, but his horse did not, and
Mrs. Robert Winmill's Gin Quidado slid
and crashed into one Of the plank
fence jumps shortly afterward, hurting
his rider beneath him.
Results In All Glasses.
Results in all classes were:
Glass 81, 2 and 3 year olds suitable
| to become hunters-First, Loro, b. g., ).
Mrs. John Hay Whitney; second Wild