Evening star., 1937-03-26
BY NINA CARTER TABB.


THE Redland Hunt will hold
point-to-point races tomorrow
to celebrate the end of its fox
4 hunting aeaSon. Many Vir-
ginians expect to motor to Maryland,
near Rockville, to enjoy the afternoon
of sport that Thomas Mott, master of
Redland Hunt, has planned.
Beginning at 2 pm. there will be
two cross country races. The starting
point will be announced after o'clock
tonight. Call the Rockville telephone
operator for information
The events will be for lightweight
and middleweight hunters, only anna
teurs allowed to ride. Flags or markers
will be placed along the course about
every quarter mile to show in which
direction the points of the race are.
At these points riders must pick up
token to hand to the judges at the fin
tsh. OF course, those knowing the
country have it over outsiders, as they
can very likely take the short cuts that
all good hunting people know in their
own country. The markers, however,
will be of great assistance to those
not having a good bump of locality"
After the first three horses in each
race are cooled out, they will be
Judged on hunting soundness, jump
ing, manners, pace and style. The
Judges will put ribbon on the horse
they decide is the best of the two
classes, and that horses name will be
engraved on trophy that is to be
given for the first time this season.
Miss Nancy Hanna's hunter Gone
Away. winner of the lightweight class
at Middleburg Hunts point-to- o-point
last Saturday, will be ready to go
again tomorrow. There will be a great
many horses entered from neighboring
hunts, and the post entries of SO will
be used for the paneling fund of Red
land Hunt. The judges will be Col.
Jonathan Wainwright, James B. Skin
ner of Middleburg and John c. Butler
Of Rectortown.
Among the horses and riders will be
Fenton Fadeleys Lacquer Lady and
Stand Of, Thomas T. Mott, jr., on
Leap Year; Robert Phillips on Wise
and Miss Isabella Hart, riding Royal
Oakes.
The Orange County Hunt will have
point-to-point races to end their hunt
ing season on April 8. Conditions are
not out yet, but will be published later.
PIEDMONT HOUNDS met at Black
ly Grove for their last hunt of
the season. They drew across Gen.
Buchanans place to Llangollen gate,
hit cold trail, but had no actual
run, then drew back across Buchan-
ans to Green Garden, crossing the
road to the Peach farm, thence to
Bedford F1etcher's farm and on to
Mrs. Josh Fletcher's, Metcalfs and
Melbourne farms.
Starting a fox on Melbourne Bot
tom, they ran straight to the Charles
Sabin's, where there was q loss. Pick
ing up the scent again the fox carried
them to Mr.. Phillips place and
Gwynne Tayloe's, where it jumped
into the Sulphur Spring field and
crossed Crednal Farm at a fast clip.
From there the field crossed Pelham
and Quaker Lane and ran across Old
Melbourne, where hounds split and
loss was made. They tried to pick
up the fox again in the woods, work
ing toward Feather Bed Lane, with
no success. 1t was getting late and |
they had had long run, so the mas
ter, A. c. Randolph, decided to call |
1t day, and the field returned home |
via Lock Farm toward Pelham Corner,
where cars arrived to take them home.
There was much tricky jumping |
over natural country, such as Sulphur
Spring, Crednal, Pelham and Old We'll
bourne, trappy places that made riders
look well where they were going and
there was lot Of dodging under low
hanging tree limbs at stone walls and
old post and rail fences. One girl was
brushed from her horse by a tree and
another told how she had to bend
backward to escape beinp caught in