Evening star., 1937-02-22
In the Hunt
Country
Activities Among the
Horse Lovers of Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
BY NINA CARTER TABB.

~ SAR, the French stallion i'm
Il ported to this country by A..
n S. Hewitt of Montana Hall,
n near White Post, Va, and
Kenneth N. Gilpin of Boyce, Va. had
his first American colt foaled on
February 1S at Raspberry Plain, near
Leesburg. Herbert Kirkpatrick, man
ager, telephoned the news to Mr..
Hewitt, and he came right over to
see the first American foal OF his
great sire.
4. BY Ksar out Of Cinema, a stake
winning daughter of Sweep, this colt,
q dark chestnut with a long, white
mark down the forehead, Is very lovely,
and many horsemen of the neighbor-
hood have been in to see and
admire it.
Ksar, by Bruleur out of Kizil Kour-
gan, was sold at public auction for
more than $4,000, then the record
price in Europe. In is starts at 2, 3
and 4 years, he was IL times first,
three times second and once unplaced.
He won over S330,000 at par Of ex-
change, at all distances from seven
furlongs to two miles and a half, in
Guiding the French Derby, Arc de
Triomphe (twice), Prix du Cadran,
and other first-clasS stakes.
Ksar is believed to be the only
winner of more than 100000 whose
sire and dam each won more than
100000. His sire, Bruleur, won the
Grand Prix de Paris and other stakes
and sired four French Derby winners
in eight years, and is acknowledged
as one of the very greatest modern
French stations. His dam, Kizil
Kourgan, won the Grand Prix de Paris
(beating Sceptre), French Oaks,
French One Thousand Guineas. She
Is ranked among the four or five best
mares to have raced in France. Ksar.
who was the Man O War OF France,
brings a new blood line into America,
the Bruleur blood line.
The dam of the new chestnut colt
(foaled last Thursday night is by
Sweep out Of Magic Lantern-so IS
well-named Cinema. Ksar is the last
French stallion imported to this coun-
try. His first son is a, good colt and
breeders think an excellent potential
prospect as a race horse. Suitable
names suggested for the little fellow,
by Baron DEsprenil, are Cinefar,
Cinephile, Ecran or Silmar. Baron
and Baroness D'Esprenil of Paris,
France (she was Adeline Oxnard), are
spending the Winter with Mrs. Henry
~ Inr 70 tn
vile.
heard a blowing contest
Saturday in which several masters of
hounds, ex-maSterS and huntSmen
took part. They blew many sweet
notes from copper hunt horns, but Mr..
Asa Rusk, huntsman of the Loudoun
Hunt, was far ahead of them all, blow
ing deep and melodious notes on his
old cow horn. The horn is about Is
inches long, beautifully curved and is
just as it came from the animal, ex-
cept that it is polished brightly from
long and much use. It was amusing
to see the men who could blow on the
copper horn try the old COW horn.
Many of them could not blow note
pare with the talent of Mr. Rusk. 1t
takes an old-timer to do it!
The 1887 hunt racing season opens
today (Washington's Birthday in
Camden, S. c., with the running Of
the Washington's Birthday Plate, and
six other races. The WaShington's S
Birthday Plate (Which I witnessed)
was won last year by Mrs. G. H.
"Pete" Bostwick's Fugitive, one of tie
best known timber horses in the
country, with Randolph Duffey, his
trainer, up. In 1885 Mrs w. Austin
Wadsworth's Hotspur End, came in
with S. S. Janney, jr., up. repeating
the 1884 result. Hotspur End also
won the race in 1888, but that time
with Raymond Woolfe riding him.
The race is about 212 miles over tim
Der. Fugitive and Hotspur End will
compete against each other for the
plate today and there are eight other
entries in the race.
HUNTING LOG-TOMORRO
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