Evening star., 1938-10-23
DAK0TAKEEPSU.S.
RIDERS IN LEAD
Performs Brilliantly to Give
American Team Four
Point Margin.
BY ROBERT HENRY.

the great responsibility thrust on him,
Army Horse Show team, yesterday
came through with flying colors to
keep his team in the lead for inter-
national honors at the Inter-American
Horse Show.
With 5000 spectators cheering him
on, the huge brown horse went around
the difficult 14-jump course without
laying toe," to give the American
forces APPOINT lead over their Mexi-
can and Chilean rivals.
The competition, which will end this
afternoon at the Meadowbrook Saddle
Club, left the United States represent
atives with total of 20 faults as COM
pared to 241a faults for the second
place Mexican group. Chile still is in
last position, despite the individual
brilliance of the teams leader, Maj
Eduardo Yanez remains within strik-
ing distance with 2424 faults.
Enjoys Attention.
In making his great round, Dakota,
ridden by 1t. Franklin S. Wing, ap-
peared to enjoy the attention given
him. Switching his bushy tail as he
cleared each of the obstacles. his easy
going manner belied his swift time
Of minute 61a seconds This was
several seconds faster than any other
entry made during the afternoon.
While Dakota made the fastest time
for the class, two of the foreign jump
ers also made clean performances to
help their team stick close to the heels
of the pacesetters.
Oddly enough one of these, Toqui,
which yesterday gained reserve honors
IN the international individual military
contest with clean score. is the small
est horse in the show. He stand 14.3
hands. as compared to Dakota's i'm
posing II hands.
Ridden by Maj Yanez, the dashing
captain of the South American color
bearers. Toqui did not let his small
stature interfere with his great jump
ing display. Though three of the
fences were up as high as 5i2 feet,
the little chestnut never faltered as he
boldly took every obstacle on the
amidst burst of applause.
Azteca Also Pleases.
Azteca, ridden by 1t. Ramiro Pala-
fox of the Mexican team, also showed
the fans clever bit of hurdling. In
scoring his taultless round, the easy
striding bay cleared the big Toronto
bank with several inches to spare and
seemed fresh and eager for more upon
taking the water jump, last on the
course.
The Governors Cup competition
particularly interesting to local horse
enthusiasts because of the District of
Columbia entry, gave them little to
cheer about as Morris Clark's Virginia
team No. drew out into good-sized
lead.
Going into the second day of this
interstate contest the quartet from
Orange was tied with U. S. Randle's
Fairfax entry at 13 faults each. and
the Washington team only one point
behind in third place. While the
local team, captained by Margaret
Cotter, managed to move into second
place yesterday it lost ground as far
as the lead was concerned.
Two Horses Make Scores.
The present leaders gained that
ranking by sending out two horses to
make excellent scores. With Mr..
Clark riding his consistent brown
horse, Whoopee, around the course
minus touch to gain individual hon
.ors and Alex Calvert. on Hobo, pick
ing up only 2l2 faults, the we'll
balanced team took a 61a-point lead
over the District hopes.
With only this afternoons competi-
ton remaining before the cup is pre-
sented, it hardly seemed possible that
there would be any change at the top.
In gaining their second-place posi-
tion, the two girl members of the
Washington team rode their horses
to lower fault score than did Gardner
Hallman with his two mounts. Miss
Cotter, taking Rocksie under wraps,
appeared set for perfect score until
reaching the in-and-out jump. which
he Knocked down for his only faults.
Lisbeth Steig, youngest member Of
the team, also was going in great
style astride Hi-Ho but hit the tricky
double fence jump and the rustic
fence for 2l2 faults.
New York Team Improved.
Donald Sutherlands New York team
something of disappointment Friday,
went in improved fashion yesterday.
With Mr. Sutherland riding all his
fu-o of
Night Life, made a total of only 512
faults to pass the Maryland team,
winners of the cup last year.
The latter group had little consola-
ton despite the early showing of
Lacquer Lady, ridden by Fenton NJ
Fadeley. The famous chestnut mare,
which has not performed as well as
expected during the show, did come
through with neat performance in
this class, making only 2la faults.
However the other three Maryland
entries failed to keep up with her.
Although yesterday was billeds as
Maryland day on the program, Vir-
ginia horses continued to sweep most
of the events, just as they had on the
two preceding days. Particularly sue
ceeded were the horses of Mrs. George
P. Greenhaigh's Berryville stable
won its first victory of the show
when the huge Merry Gesture, VIM
ner Thursday, took the open working
hunters class. With Blakely Lodge in
the saddle. Merry Gesture went around
the course without a tip and also
showed to advantage in the conforma-
ton judging.
Not long afterward, Merry Gesture
came back and triumphed in the $3.50
working hunters stakes to give Mrs.
Greenhalgh her sixth blue ribbon in
three days.
Besides passing Maryland in the
Governors Cup event, the New York
ers scored their first individual victory
during the afternoon when Racket, one
of the Sutherland horses from Brook
lyn, took the Course E jumping class.