Evening star., 1935-08-20
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BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.

BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.
" ITHER the eggs are tougher
l. around here than in the old
country or Washington riders
IL may boast better hands than
Col. C. L. Scott would have credited
them with before last Saturday after
noon.
A gentleman gifted with rare tall
ents for enlivening the oft-repetitious
horse show game. Col. Scott devised a
class requiring riders to take course
of jumps the while carrying in each
hand one fine fresh egg. donated by
Mr.. Fenton Fadeley.
The idea was to prove that horse
man with decent hands should be
able to 60 about his business exercis-
ing only the mildest pressure on the
bits and still manage his mount per-
fectly well. Performances were. as a
matter Of fact, unusually smooth in
this trial-but the hitch came when no
one broke any eggs.
Because of that, run-of was
called between the best three, and
finally Black Caddy fell with Fred
Hughes, jr., and he broke one of his
fragile burdens (the jump-off boys
carried two in each hand), laying the
ghost of reports that Mr.. Fadeley had
inadvertently reached into the 20Smin-
ute egg department when delivering
his contribution for the class.
Rocksie's second championship In
two weeks suggested that like some
race horses this pride of the Cotter
stables really is q Fall horse" his
best records being made consistently
at that season of the year. Since
Rocksie is one of the few owner
ridden show animals around Washing
ton, it is all the more pleasing to see
him scaling the heights.
Along that line it must be noted
that the local shows are gaining some
ground toward the goal Of owner par
ticipation. The willingness of Fort
Myers officers to patronize these in
formal affairs Is great asset in that
respect. Incidentally. the post seems
to have found young rider Of great
promise in Lieut. Henri TONY" Lueb-
herman, whose luck with Sandy last
Saturday was surpassed only by his
contemporary, Lieut.. Frank Henry,
who rode Clipped Wings to the jumper
championship.
THERE has been some academic
discussion lately anent the
plethora of small shows popping up
all around Washington. The moment
the Virginia Horse Show Association
permits breathing spell between rec
ognized shows in the neighborhood OF
Washington, a gang Of minor impre-
sarios fill the breach with their own
versions of the sport. A lot Of people
complain this is merely good thing
overdone.
Personally, we feel the only citizens
who get a tough break on it are the
sports writer's, who have to sit around
every week end and watch the same
bunch of horses at work, with no in
terludes for lying on beaches, exercis-
ing the elbow or reading the lives of
all the interesting people one is sup
posed to meet as reporter.
The scribes, we maintain, take most
of the licking. The people who ride in
horse shows presumably do so because
they like it, or because they like to
hang ribbons and cups and such all
over their houses. so they deserve no
sympathy.
The spectators don't have to come
If they don't want to and that about
leaves the onus of the affair on the
horses and the newspaper people, who
should be used to carrying 1t anyway,
we suppose All right, then, let 'em
have more shows
And so saying we may report that
the Colvin Run Citizens Association
is building a new outside course for
its meet August 81 in Fairfax County
(the Army is sending lots of horses
and Emily North King of warrenton
will be among the judges; the Mont
gomery County Horse Show Associa-
ton, may we repeat. has grabbed Sep
tember 21 for its date; the twenty
second annual Fairfax Horse Show