Evening star., 1936-08-26
HORSE SHOW LIST
LONG AND VARIED
Two This Week, Three Each
in September and October
Already Are Carded.
late Summer deluge OF eques-
trian handbills has arrived.
pouring forth facts and fam


trian handbills has arrived,
pouring forth facts and fam
4 cies on the virtues Of impor-
tant horse shows and steeplechase
meets to be held ere the leaf is brown
upon the tree and the frost white
upon the horseman's ears.
Meeting all requirements of the
horsey spectator, domestic or timer
ant variety, the prospectus Of imme-
date and future events runs some
thing like this:
This evening at 7:45 pm. 1--WE
might as we'll get started near the
beginning), a night horse show, spon-
sored by the Riding and Hunt Club
at the Meadowbrook grounds on East
West highway. See the horses per-
form under Kleig lights and witness
the selection of the seasons Garbo-
for the grand champion hunter of
the four hunt club shows OF 1886 will
be crowned at the end Of the eve
ming. So will the champion open
jumper.
Good Outside Course.
CATURDAY, Colvin Run Citizens
~ Association Horse Show in Fairfax
County. Not so suburban as 1t sounds
with>a cracking good outside course set
up to permit pairs of hunters and hunt
teams to 60 abreast. and the inside
courses designed by Fort Myer Cav
airy officer. One of the better infor-
NAL meets of the heat-wave season.
Stunt riding by Fort Myer troops, air
rides In the Goodyear blimp and as
sorted other side attractions for those
who tire Of watching the horses 60
around and around.
Saturday, September IL. The an
nual Fairfax Horse and Pony Show
Eighteen classes, nine Of them for
ponies and the others for hunters and
open jumpers. Reduced from a two
day to a one-day meet this year, but
the best classes still intact.
Saturday, September 19 land here
we begin to range out a bip. Fox
catcher Hounds race meeting at Fair
Hill, Md. The richest steeplechase OF
the year to be run If more than 20
horses are entered in the Foxcatcher
National Cup event. Three other
races, all with good purses, to I'LL out
the program.
The Meadowbrook Cup.
SATURDAY, September 26. The
~ Meadowbrook Cup at Westbury
Long Island. One Of the Big -Four
of American timber racing and well
worth the trip If you can make it;
81 900 added this season for the cup
test. Also two other contests, both
over brush.
Friday and Saturday, october 9 and
10. The Warrenton Horse Show
Through these portals pass the most
beautiful hunters in America"-or
large proportion of them. The new
John Barton Payne Memorial Trophy
to be offered in the Corinthian class
for the first time this year. and the
Ullman Challenge Cup for the hunt
teams. A must" for all who like the
inside-course conformation meets as
run in Virginia.
Wednesday and Saturday. October
7 and 10. Two days of racing at the
Rolling Rock course, with the Rolling
Rock Hunt Cup to be run the first
day. Two brush, one timber, one hur-
die and a fiat race on Wednesday
Saturday, same thing again.
Tops Local Show Year.
lOcToBER %, %, "a and rs. the
~ Inter-American Horse Show. Back
In our own bailiwick again, with the
Chileans, Mexicans and the best
horsemen Of the United States Army
competing over Olympic courses
Maybe the Canadians this year. too
Likewise talk of interstate team jump
ing, with teams of four from Mary
land. the District and Virginia tC
compete.
This is the cream, the dessert, the
epitomy and everything else of the
local show year.