Evening star., 1936-09-14
In the Hunt
Country
Activities Among the
Horse Lovers. of Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
BY NINA CARTER TABB.

BY NINA CARTER TABB.
"HE thirteenth annual Middle
burg Horse Show will be held
September 80 and October !.
u This is the most important
sporting event in this part of the
country tor the month. and the most
interesting class of the "a that are
to be run off is the one for hunt
teams. Mrs. William Mitchell is CIV
ing q large silver bowl in the hunt
team class as a memorial for her
husband, the late Brig. Gen. William
Mitchell The silver bowl is
perpetual trophy, but three correlative
silver cups are to be kept by the
winner of the class each year.
The Middleburg Horse Show will be
held at Glenwood. the estate Of Daniel
c. Sands, and the other classes listed
are for saddle ponies, II hands and
under, IL hands and up to II hands,
half-bred yearlings, half-bred 2-year-
olds, thoroughbred brood mares, thor
oughbred yearlings, 2 years old and 3
years old (lead-in) 3 and year old
hunters. 3-year-olds to jump 3l2 feet,
4-year-olds to jump 4 feet. Other
classes are for handicap hunters, light
weight green hunters, heavy and mid
dleweight green hunters, fault and out
class, bantam class, ladies hunters,
corinthian class, hunt teams, light
weight qualified hunters, middle
weight qualified hunters, thorough
bred hunters and hunter champion
ship.
There will be a fiat race each day
and steeple chase.
Entry fees in the classes are SO.
with the exception of the hunt teams
and Corinthian class, which are SIS.
The purses in the fiat races are $50,
S25 and SIS and in the steeplechases,
$50, $40 and $40.
Entries will close September 81.
Mrs Cook Crawley, Middleburg. is
secretary of the show and the COM
mittee that is running it are Daniel
C. Sands, William Hulburt. Turner
Wiltshire and Otto Furr.
Piedmont Hunt has been out cub
bing several days in the past week.
about 5 o'clock in the morning and
has had good sport. Members met at
the Charles Sabin farm on Friday,
started a fox and had wonderful
gallop over Melbourne farm, Mrs.
George Skaters and the Josh Fletcher
farm. Loudoun Hunt, with the new
master, Judge Alexander, also has
started clubbing Some new country
down along Goose Creek is being
opened up and good deal Of paneling
will be done this Fall.
Blue Ridge Hunt. William Bell
Watkins master. has begun to go out
very early in the mornings and has
several followers to hounds inter-
ested enough to get up at the hour
necessary for cub hunting.
The race that Fugitive Won at Rye
last week still is the topic of conver-
sation among those who saw it. He
beat Indigo that day, who is consid-
cred the best timber horse in America
over 312 or miles. But the race
that Fugitive won was for miles,
Indigo was running in the race but
at no time was he able to catch this
old favorite.
Randy Duffey, his trainer, who has
ridden Fugitive so often to victory,
was up, and gave him a wonderful
ride-in fact. the best he has ever
given him. It was one of those races
when horse and rider came through
with the greatest ease, and you felt
they were enjoying every moment
OF it, as much as the owner Of Fugi-
tive, Alvin T. Untermyer. The COM
bination will be seen in Middleburg
this Fall and may they win again.