Evening star., 1937-02-03
In the Hunt
Country
Activities Among the
Horse Lovers of Vir-
ginia and Maryland.
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BY NINA CARTER TABB.

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" ton, who will ride What Have
You (the horse he trains for Frank
M. Could in the Grand National,
reports the horse arrived in England
January 25 in ood condition
STREET. will leave New York Febru-
ery 10 on the Europa. He probably
will run What Have You IN the
Cheltenham, and plans to run him IN
one or two other races before the
Grand National. The weight given
this horse in the list is 159 pounds.
Bill Street, weighs ITO now, but has
two months to get off II pounds.
Bill has Just returned from Cam
den. S. c., where Gigolo. owned by
Mill River Stable, Ostend, owned by
Mrs. Frank NJ Gould, and Bay Hero,
a 4-year-old. owned by Bill, are in
training under Andy Ferguson. Gig
olo and Ostend are pointed Tor
the Maryland Hunt Cup in April.
and Bill will return to America in
time to ride one of them. Bay
Hero is being schooled to go over
brush the coming season. Bill says
che is going like million dollars
and he expects great things OF him.
Besides these three horses at the
Southern resort, Bill has in training
Postman Home, owned by Frank II.
Gould: Bezda, owned by Hugh Ban
croft; White Lightning. owned by
Warner BaltazZi: Excelsior, owned by
Do, ND
Owned by himself; five yearllngs OF
different ownership, and one OF the
imported French steepchase horses,
La Mortarnais. owned by Mill River
Stable. The French horse won sew
eral races on the fiat in France, but
has never raced over jumps. so Bill
Is teaching him to go over the
fences.
One Of the most successful trainers
and steepchaSe riders in America.
Bill STREET. will have all the good
wishes of his many friends here when
he goes to the post on What Have
You in the Grand National steeple-
chase in March.
Capt Richard Kirkpatrick is acting
master of Warrenton Hounds in the
absence of Amory S. Carhart. who has
gone South with Mrs Carhart for a
months visit. Capt. Kirkpatrick
always an enthusiastic follower to
hounds. gave his field a good day OF
sport on Monday, when hounds met at
Bill Emory's place. They drew the
NeSbit farm and started a fox i'm
mediately. After a run of 40 minutes
the fox ran in a drain on North Wales
farm Bill STREET. said he had been
told by Thomas Hitchcock, while in
Aiken. that the best way to get fox
out of a drain was to shoot a fire.
cracker off at one end. Not having
firecracker handy, a gun was gotten
from nearby and fired. Sure enough,
out ran the fox and away went hounds
and riders for another half-hour's
run; then the fox was put in" again
and hounds were taken in.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson
OF New York, the former editor and
owner of The Sportsman magazine,
have been spending a few days at
Foxcroft, where their young daughter
is attending school. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Frost gave luncheon in their
honor yesterday Among those present
were Mr.. and Mrs Frederick Prince,
jr., and DR.. and Mrs Archibald c.
Randolph. Mr.. and Mrs. Prince are
closing their house near Marshall, Va,
and will sail from New York this week
for a six weeks visit abroad. They
will hunt with the Pau Hounds in
France, of which Frederick Prince, sr.
Freddy's father, is M. F. H. Freddy,
tr, goes to Pau each season at this
time. and is acting master in his
fathers place while there.
The younger Prince is as omni-
present a fox hunter as there is in
Fauquier County. He hunted recently
with Orange County Hounds and went
out again the next day. After half
hours fast gallop through the western
part of this country, he pulled out.
He Joined his good friend, William
Phillips, who mounted him, and he
Jared forth with DR.. Randolph's Pied
mont Hounds at pm. He stayed with
this pack until late afternoon, when
a fox was found. On the following
day, Wednesday, Freddy went out with
Amory Carhart and the Warrenton
Hounds, when they met at Lakota. On
Thursday he went out with the Middle
burg Hounds, on Friday with Pied
mont again, and wound up the week
by hunting with Orange County.
Hunting Log-Tomorrow's Meets.
Virginia.
Middleburg Hunt, Miss Charlotte H.
holland, Daniel c. Sands, joint masters.
|For time and place of meet, call
Middleburg telephone centralD Orange
County Hunt, Fletcher Harper, M F.
H. For time and place of meet, call
The Plains telephone centralD Old
Dominion Hounds, Sterling Larabee.
M. F. H tFor time and place of
meet, telephone The Kennels, Mar
shall 94-F-3)
Maryland.
Green Spring Valley Hounds, John
K. Shaw, jr; Frank A. Bonsal. jr..
joint masters, Pleasant Grove, 2 pm;
Elkridge-Harford Hunt, H. S. Ladew,
M. F. H., Wright's store, II am.