Evening star., 1937-03-24

ginias foremost horsemen
- and breeders Of good horses.
His string of thoroughbreds wins at
horse shows all over the country.
Red Tape, one Of the most famous,
he sold to Mrs. Robert Guggenheim
OF Washington several years ago. She
bought Miss Coquette and Cliftons
Beau from him later on to add to her
show string.
Lew" Allen was prominent physi-
elan in Baltimore but his love of
horses brought him to Virginia to
live, and in Winchester he has a
large practice from which he takes
time out to raise horses on his lovely
farm, Clifton, near Berryville. DR..
Allen rides beautifully and is pic
ture on horse as he leads the parade
at the Winchester Apple Blossom
Festival each year, astride gray
thoroughbred.
The doctor came before the public
In another way recently, when it be-
came known that he was the doctor
who brought Wallis Warfeld into
the world
DR.. Allen and DR.. Tappin of Berry
vile have motored to Florida for a
vacation. They will be in Camden,
S. c., on Saturday for the Carolina
Cup race. DR.. Allen has been asked
to be Judge Saturday will be a
great day of sport down there, and
many Virginians and WashingtonianS
are going down for the week end.
The Carolina Cup, one of the great
events Of the hunt racing season, at
tained prominence and caused ma
tional interest from the time of it's
inaugural running, March %, 1880.
Today it is one Of the classic steeple-
chases of the United States and at
tracts an annually increasing entry
list of the best horses in training
The Carolina Cup is dedicated to Mr.
Thomas Hitchcock as a tribute to
his untiring interest in the develop
ment and progress Of steeplechasing
in America. The trophy is handsome
Queen Anne cup, fashioned by
Alexander Sinclair in Dublin in 1704.
The owner Of the winner Of the great
race is entitled to hold the Carolina
Cup for year, or until the next run
ming of the race, and to receive
copy as his absolute property.
THE race will be run, as always,
over the historic Springdale
course, which is 100 feet wide and
turfed with the finest Bermuda grass,
providing perfect footing. The OBJ
stacles consist of l8 post-and-rail
fences of stout timber, averaging
feet in height The course, about
miles long, is on the site of the
which races were held more than rs
years ago. Its timber course is consid-
cred by many to be the best in Amer
lea. Every one Of the courses is in
full view Of the spectators. The
Carolina Cup will be one of seven
faces Saturday.
In addition, there will be the
springdale Cup, 2l2 miles over brush;
the Kershaw steeplechase, 2 miles
over brush; the Palmetto Maiden 2
miles over timber; the Camden Plate,
6K2 furlongs on the fiat; the Watewee,
IL miles on the fiat, and the Baron
De Kalb, IA miles over hurdles.
The first running Of the Carolina
Cup was won by Noel Laing, riding
his own horse, Ballast 3D. In 1881
Sea Soldier, owned by Mill Creek
Stables and ridden by ]. v. H. Davis,
won. The 1882 winner was Trouble
maker, owned by Mrs. T. H. Somer-
vile and ridden by Laing. Other
winners have been: 1888, Pink
Tipped, owned by Richard Mellon
and ridden by Bill STREET.; 1884,
Charioteer, owned by Mrs. T. E.
Proctor and ridden by J. P. (Jamie)
Mccormick; 1895, Drinmore Lad,
owned by Paul Mellon and ridden by
J. E. Ryan, and 1886, Indigo, owned
by John M. Shift and ridden by
Charles White.
Among entries in the Carolina