Evening star., 1934-05-13
RED TAPE PROVES
.HORSESHOW'SBES
Convinces Sportsmen Capi.
tai Has Truly Great
Stable of Its Own.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR.

washington sportSmen acknowl-
edged last night for the first time in
many years the existence here of a
really great tanbark ring stable, as
Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim's FirenZe
Red Tape cinched the grand cham
pionship of the National Capital horse
show after three days of brilliant
competition at Bradley Farms, Md.
When the splendid bay star of the
Guggenheim string was bedded down
for the night after the final class late
yesterday, there was hung in the tack
room across the way a tricolor ribbon
denoting supremacy over some of the
finest hunters in America. Beside it
rested almost a score of ribbons
blues, reds, yellows and a white or
two-earned by the champions COL
leagues of F'irenZe Farm.
Whitney Reign Broken.
Six of these emblems of victory Red
Tape earned alone in defeating such
redoubtable performers as Mrs John
Hay Whitney's famous grays and
others in her string of 16 brought
here this season. In past years. the
Whitney horses had proved almost
invincible at Washington's annual ex-
hibition, but Red Tape cut in heavily
this year into the championships the
Whitney hunters are accustomed to
win. Other entries from the Guggen-
helm barn rallied to the cause also,
earning a fair share of the minor
awards.
Mrs. Whitney came in person from
her Llangollen Farm near Upperville,
Va, to supervise the performances of
her best tanbark horses, and while
she left again without the food of
honcrs which fell to her in past years,
she Gid not by any means pass un-
noticed in the scoring. Her light
weight hunter, Two Leggins. earned
the championship among horses OF
that type and took the reserve grand
championship while the sturdy Bon
Diable was credited with a reserve
to the Guggenheim luminary in the
middle and heavy weight hunter
championship Bon Diable likewise
won over Red Tape now and then in
individual meetings, but was unable
to outshine the bay in toto.
Gray knight Outshone.
The Gray Knight, formerly the
leading winner among the famous
Whitney hunt team of grays, proved
least effective of all this year in
combating the suddenly developed
Guggenhiem competition, surrender
ing without real struggle possession
of the grand championship, the Model
Hunter Trophy and other honors he
held in past times.
Red Tape accounted for blues in
the Peter voorhees, DeGraw Memorial
Trophy, the class for thoroughbred
hunters, the National Capital Tro-
ply for model hunters and the con-
formation hunter division. He also
rang up two championships, eased
into second place behind Bon Diable
in the initial qualified or green hunt
er, middle and heavy weight class. and
surprisingly dropped clear out of the
money now and then after giving poor
jumping performances in a class or
two.
Several other women exhibitors
stood out among the fourscore own
ers who sent their charges to Bradley
Farms. Among these were Mrs. Els
worth Augustus of Willoughby, Ohio
and Miss Marjorie Lee Mcleod OF
Bethesda, Md.
Cavalry Horses Win.
The Fort Myer horse show team
held the limelight in the open jump
ing classes.
Among the numerous children whit
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