Evening star., 1938-05-25
In the Hunt
Country
By NINA CARTER TABB.

7 ISIS MARGARET LEWIS
M BYRD of Winchester will be
IV graduated from Gunston
1 ' 1 Hall School on May 81, and
all of the Byrd family will be in
Washington for the occasion, includ-
ing her grandmother, Mrs. Richard
E. Byrd; her father, Thomas Boiling
Byrd, and her two uncles and their
wives, Senator and Mrs. Harry Byrd
and Admiral and Mrs. Richard Eve
lyn Byrd Following her graduation
Miss Byrd will attend a house party
in Baltimore and in the latter part Ct
June will give house party at the
home of her grandmother, with whom
she lives, in Winchester. Miss Byrd
will be one of the most important
debutantes of Virginia the coming
season and will have much entertain
ing done in her honor. During her
house party Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Gilpin will give dance in her honor
at their place, Scalby. in Clarke Coun-
ty. Miss Helen Lipscomb. daughter
of Mr.. William H. Lipscomb Of Wash
ington, D. c., and Leesburg, Va, will
give dance for Miss Byrd :he same
week at her fathers home. Raspberry
Plain. Miss Lipscomb. sub-deb, will
be graduated from Potomac School
on Friday and next year she will at
tend Madeira's School.
Miss Byrd will attend the Meem-
Mclean wedding this afternoon.
DED RAIN, by PennanG out OF
~ Dustemall, owned by C. V. Whit
ney, was one of the prominent 2-year-
olds of 1885, winning the Hopeful
and Flash Stakes and running a dead
heat with Coldstream in the Saratoga
Special.
I saw him run his sensational first
race at Saratoga that year as he came
up on the outside to win, habit OF
his. Great things were expected OF
him as a 3-year-old, but he was a
disappointment. Last year he was
tried at long distances but did not win
though several times he was second or
third. He was put in one steeplechase
in 1887 but fell. He came back to
stand in the winners circle at Belmont
Park last week by winning the Inter-
national Steeplechase Handicap
(S1, 500 added for 4year olds and up,
about two miles, his second start over
jumps.
Red Rain is a beautiful chestnut
piece of horseflesh. Many admirers
saw him win again and again his first
year out and are delighted to see him
come back. He is run this season
under the colors of Mrs. c. V. Whitney.
One of this years foals that will
receive and is already receiving much
attention is a splendid brown colt by
Man O. War out of the worlds leading
money winning mare, Top Flight.
This colt was foaled at the c. v.
Whitney farm. Lexington, KY, May 7,
Derby day. The colt and his famous
dam have had callers by the dozens
and they say old Man O War is holding
his head higher than ever over his new
son.
WE HEAR many rumors about Mrs.
w John Hay Whitney making
movie that was written especially for
her, and although no one has heard
what the movie will be, We know that
Mrs. Whitney has had a number of
her hunters shipped out to Hollywood
and that she will not be here for the
coming horse show to ride her show
ring string. Every one is wondering
if the movie in which she will appear
will have a hunting scene Among
her horses that have been sent to Hol-
lywood are Two Leggins, which has
been seen all over the country in
hunter classes and in Mrs. Whitney's
famous gray hunt team, and The
Grey Knight, her favorite horse, which
is we'll known in the show ring.