Evening star., 1933-12-16
GUGGENHE|M ENTRY
WINS BEST HORSE
AWARD IN SHOW
CoIorfuI Crowd Attends First
Event of Riding and
Hunt Club.
MEYER TRAINER TAKES
HAIR.RAISING SPILL
Six From Woman's Stables Win at
Least One Blue Rib
bon Each.

The tri-color rosettes emblematic Of
the hunter championship of the Riding
and Hunt Clubs first Winter show today
adorns the head of Firenze Morocon,
aged bay gelding purchased along with
tnree other horses from the sensational
Swedish jumping team by Mrs. M. Rob-
ert Guggenheim of Washington and
Long Island.
Morocon, flashing the form which led
the swedish team to numerous victories
az the San Francisco Olympic Games
tne worlds Fair and the Madison
square Garden Horse Show and the
Royal Winter Fair at Toronto, was ad-
judged the best hunter at the indoor
seasons inaugural last night.
More than 1000 enthusiastic specta-
tors-including a colorful gathering Of
society people attired in various de-
grees OF sport and evening dress-at-
tenoeo the meeting and saw Morocon
ano the other horses of the Guggenheim
string capture 10 ribbons during the
evenings proceedings.
hair-raising spill in which william
Carter, veteran trainer for Eugene
Meyer, Washington publisher, narrowly
escaped serious injury, brought the
crowd out OF its seats in the open saddle
class.
Blossom, one of the Meyer entries.
reared high into the air as the horses
circied the ring preparatory to opening
Ine class and the saddle girth broke.
carer ieil beneath the horses plunging
chest.
Two Riders Unseated.
The Meyer trainer was the onlv rider
10 suHer injuries, although two other
performers came a cropper." Allan
Hechter was unseated when his mount
ASK Him, hunter champion of the
CLUBS indoor series last Winter, refused
at the chicken coop in the in-and- -out
jump of the handy hunter class.
MISS Aida Davis, osughter of William
h. Davis, deputy administrator of the
National Recovery Administration. also
came on when her horse refused a gate
jump in the same class Both riders,
however, remounted and finished.
Mrs. Guggenheim entered six horses
in the show and all came through with
at least one ribbon winning perform
ance. Firenze Morocon, Firenze Opoge-
max and Firenze Judge, three of the
Swedish thoroughbreds, and Firenze
Yessiree, Firenze Popover and Firenze
Fairfax. veterans. of the Guggenheim
stables, collected the 10 ribbons earned
by her mounts, which gained the pc
culiar prefix of Firenze to their name
from the Firenze farms Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guggenheim on Long Island.
Mrs. Guggenheim and her trainer,
Danny Shea, one of the foremost ham
dlers of show horses in the country,
rode the majority Of the prize winners.
The 0uggenheim entries won the blue
in every class in which they were en-
tered with the exception Of the fault
and-out and won first, second ard
fourth in the hunter pairs and first,
second and third among the handy
hunters.
The fault -and-out went to Papoose
under a sterling ride by its owner, Miss
Louise Heron, who was loudly applaud
ed by the gallery when she received the
cup and ribbon for first place in that
class. Papoose won the reserve hunter
championship ribbon and fourth in
the ladys hunter class as well as the
blue for the fault-and-out. Mrs. Gug-
genheim's Firenze Opogemaks had to be
content with second place IN the latter
event
Hetchter's 80 hunter champion. Ask
Him, captured the blue in the Corin-
THAN in his only ribbon winning per-
formance last night.
Commissioners Attend.
Among those socially and officially
prominent to attend the show were:
Commissioner and Mrs. Melvin c. Ha-
zen, Commissioner and Mrs. George Al
len. Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Mcintyre,
Mr.. and Mrs. william H. Davis, Mrs.
D. J. DUNCAN, Col. and Mrs. C. d. Her
ron, Senator and Mrs. James Couzens,
their daughter, Miss Betty Couzens, who
exhibited several winners; their son-1n-
law and oldest daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Jefferies Chewing; Lieut.:
Comdr. and Mrs. Alva Court, Col. ana
Mrs. A. L. Singleton and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Harris Ward.
Also Claude and Vernon Owen, Mr..
and Mrs. j. ]. Cotter and their daugnter,
Miss Margaret Cotter; F. Moran NC
Conihe. Fenton Fadley, H. r. Quinter,
w. Frank Burrows, F. Larmour oyster,
w. c. Hanson, George Plummer, MI.
and Mrs. william G. Hill.
The clubs next show will be for
Junior riders and will be held Decem-
ber 20.
Ribbon winners and their owners fol-
low:
Model hunter-Section fo: horses 3
wears old and under-Won oy Ftrenze
Yessiree, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim;
second, Wanahon, Mrs. w. G. Hanson;
third, Anadale, Mrs. Virginia Irwin;
fourth, Cordova, Robert Roby. Section
for horses over years old-Won by
Charlotte, F. Moran McConihe; second,
Day Dreamer, Mrs. ]. w. Mcdowell;
third, Jack Frost, Emery GaIliher;
fourth, Karl K, william Carlton Eacho.
Lady's hunter-Won by High Hat, Ray
H. Norton; second, Impulse, Miss Mar
garet Cotter; third, QUESTIONABLE, Mrs.
william g. Hill; fourth. Papoose, Miss
Louise Heron.
Open saddle class-Won by Jack
Lightning, Mrs. v. G. Owen; second,
Happy Time, w. Frank Burrows; third,
Merry John, Norman Clarke, jr.; fourth,
Dixie Peavine, Marjorie Baker.
Hunter pairs-Won by Firenze Fair
fax and Firenze Moroccan, Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenheim; second, Ftrenze
Popover and Firenze Judge, Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenheim; third, Golden Girl
and Bean Beetle, Miss Betty Couzens;
fourth, Firenze Maybe and Firenze
Opagemak, Mrs. M. Robert Guggen-
helm.
Handy Hunter Prize.