The Washington times., 1938-11-07
A GED GELDING,
KING HI, TAKES
MILITARY STAKE
Special to The Washington Times

Special to The Washington Times
NEW YORK. Nov. IA gray
gelding, we'll along in years, last
night surprised crowd of $4,000
spectators assembled at Madison
Square Garden for the second eve
ming of the National Horse Show,
by taking the $1,000 Interna-
tional Military Stake from nearly
40 other military mounts. King
Hi, ridden by Capt. Royce A.
Drake, of the United States Army
team, was the aged gelding who
took the blue ribbon and the
award in the feature event Of
yesterdays show.
Twelve difficult jumps had to
be negotiated in this class which
was open to officers of the Ma
tional Guard, the reserve. State
and city police as we'll as to men,
bers of the six international mill
tary teams competing in the eight
day show.
NOT ONE FAULT
Twenty-six mounts had faulted
over the route when Captain
Drake rode in on dependable old
King Hi; none of them had been
able to score less than four faults.
Not one tick did the gray make;
up and over he went without a
fault, IL times, and the brilliant
crowd in top-hatS, tails and mink
gave him full-throated cheer.
Major Eduardo Yanez of Chile,
winner day before of the Bowman
military jumping event on Chill
ena again rode his champion
mount into the huge oblong ring,
to compete against King His per-
feet performance. But this time
the Bowman winner and Chilena
disappointed.
Only other horse to go clean
was Flying Poet, ridden by Lieut..
Douglas Cleland of the Canadian
team. For the jump-off between
King Hi and Flying Poet, the
chicken coop hurdle on Course J
was raised to feet 6 inches, while
the in-and-out and the stone wall
went up to 5 feet.
PERFECT JUMPING
Again the gallant gray toured
the circuit without a fault. The
cheers for his brave performance
were lost in the hush which
caught at the crowds throats as
Flying Poet came into the ring a
second time. Neither the chicken
coop nor the treacherous in-and-
out eliminated the Canadian
mount. 1t was the Liverpool, the
water jump which has spilled the
hopes of many a steeplechaser at
Aintree during the running of the
Grand National, that grounded
Flying Poet.
Another feature of last nights
performance was the touch-and-
out event. for which the course
was so difficult that only four
mounts were able to hurdle the
first three jumps. The rest of
the course was untouched.
Washington entries Jared poorly
in the touch-and-out. Mr.. Fen
ton Fadeley's Lacquer Lady ticked
going over the very first jump,
while Mr.. P. S. Randle's hand
some chestnut, Randle's Way, was
put out at the second hurdle.
BARTENDER ELIMINATED
Their owners did not feel too
discouraged at those perform
ances, however, for Bartender,
Mrs. Edgar Mayors national open
jumper champion, was eliminated
at the second jump, too.
The winner in the touch-and-
out, in which more than 80 horses
competed, was newcomer to the
show ring circuit, Goldamsel,
owned by Mrs. Till Kaufman. The
chestnut mare went clean over the
first three barriers. Modernistic,
Philip j. Bliss great hurdling
thoroughbred, went clean over
two jumps for second place.
Hunting pink will be much in
evidence tonight at the Garden,
for the evenings events include
hunt teams and Corinthian jump
ing. The Royal Canadian Dra-
goonS in their scarlet tunics will
stage their mounted exhibition.
Also scheduled for this evening are
fine harness horses, to be driven
by a lady; pony four-in-hands and
ladies' three-gaited saddle-horses.
Climax of tonight's show will be
the second event Of the interna-
tional military team jumping.
Yesterdays results:
PAIR JUMPING-First. second pair Of
Sixty-first Cavalry Division No. with
:H faults: second. second pair of Cara
bnero team of Chile No. with
Of ii Chile tS "s No. "a" team ar With | faults; %
fourth, second pair of sixty-first Cav
airy Division No. with II faults.
NEW YORK POLICE OFFICERS
Troop c; second, Patrolman Harold
Hahn, of Troop c; third. Patrolman
John opman. of Troop A; fourth. Pa
tr0Iman Thomas oI1m Mgdoon. of Troop G;
Kauffman's Goldamsel: second, Philip B.
Bliss Modernistic; third DR.. and Mrs.
Walter T KEGS Lew Dunbar; fourth,
Audwill stables Erin's Son. ~
.STAKE-First, United States Army horse
show teams King Ill., ridden by Capt.
Royce A. Drake; second. Canadian Army
horse show teams Flying Poet ridden
by Lieut.. Douglas C1eland; third, Mexican
army horse show teams MuChacho, rid
den by Lieut.. Ramiro Palafox: fourth.
Mexican army horse show teams Azteca,
ridden by Lieut. Ramiro Palafox, fifth.
United States Army horse show teams
Dakota ridden by Lieut.. Franklin r.
Wing, ir.; sixth, Chilean army horse
show teams Toqui, ridden by Major
YaneZ.
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