Evening star., 1938-05-06
D. c. GIRL DOUBLE
WINNER IN SHOW
Margaret Cotter Sets Pace
at 0pening-Great Array
of Horses Competing.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPs, Jr

BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.
Washington's first glimpse at its
drastically remodelled spring horse
show on the Meadowbrook Club
grounds yesterday convinced horse
men that the management can i'm
port the stiffest available competition
from all parts of the country, but the
local riders will keep right on knocking
at the door when ribbons are handed
out Meeting much better class of
hunters and jumpers than has been
seen here in recent years, competitors
from this sector scored three signal
victories in the first of the shows
four daily sessions.
Two of these were chalked up by Miss
Margaret Cotter on her veteran jumper
Rocksie. which survived a series OF
jump-offs to take both the modified
Olympia and the knockdown and out
events. The other first flight triumph
was marked up by Capt. John Meade
on the Fort Myer horse show teams
Dansoux, which beat no less a cele-
brity than Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus
Chatter Chat, erstwhile grand cham
pion of the National Horse Show, in
the test for working hunters.
Few stables here specialize in saddle
and harness horses, but the railbirds
responded enthusiastically yesterday as
these svelte peacocks of the show game
strutted across the turf. The crowds
were particularly enchanted with the
brisk roadster class, in which drivers
clad in racing silks spun around the
ring at smart clip, the light sulkies
kicking up the dust of novelty that is
always sweet to behold after so many
years of rather commonplace horse
shows.
Virginia in Saddle Events.
Since Virginia Is generally regarded
as a hide bound hunter State, it was
rather surprising to find that the town
Of Norfolk sent the strongest repre-
sentatives to the inaugural saddle
horse events. Goode NJ Watkins of
that city won the class for novice
three gated types with Count Peacock,
while the Carolanne Farm Of Norfolk
sent out the flashy Air Flow to take
the first open purse for flve-gaited
saddle horses.
So keen was the competition in the
hunter tests that no single owner was
able to claim more than q ribbon or
two during the afternoon, but perhaps
the most important of these aside
from Capt. Meade's victory was the
hunter hack blue won by Mrs. Au-
gustus' Mayring, which is later to be
contended with in the conformation
hunter classes Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Untermeyer of Greenwich, Conn, also
had a place in the sun momentarily
when their CinelI and Hexamater
captured the spoils in the division for
pairs of working hunters.
Today's program, which opened at
10 am. with series of classes for
young and green horses, was to have
its climax with the presentation of the
Admiral Cary T. Grayson Memorial
Cup, donated by his friends as the
trophy in the thoroughbred hunter
class. Also to be contested were the
events for working hunters ridden by
amateurs, for ladies' hunters, road
sters, touch-and-out jumpers and both
types of saddle horses.
Today's Program.
Throughout the exhibition the
Junior League Of Washington, spon-
sors Of the meet, Is operating conces-
sions and sideline entertainments, the
proceeds to be donated to charity.
Today's program in full:
10 e.m.-Two-year- -olds, suitable to be.
come hunters Tin hand); green hunters,
lightweisht; troopers mounts; 3-year-olds.
Green hunters. middle % and heayyVeiaht;; H RsnSt
road hacks: 8 and year olds. suitable to
p:m.wWorkinx hunters, amateurs to
bred hunters. outside course: saddle horses,
over 1872: touch and out; roadsters, ap.
pointments;. ladies' hunters combination
tthhree,sSitsd thnse,t saddle horses; hunters. non;
stations or Seedlings; scurry.
Results Yesterday.
=. Limit Mye-gaited saddle horses-First
Hyone Artist, Nict wrisht; ii Third s'sSaS Con;
seSIass fourth. Beau ssislmo1: as Sss zc3ssa zsoSs
Novice hunters-First. BODY T.. Howare
rHaf1nsr tsla seSond Halcw Gold Willi:n
fourth; fourth !. Prot Protest. MI. and Mrs. deors'
Three-Esited saddle horses-First. coun,
seacoek: doode M; Watkins; second. SEPT!
aow MIS- T. s. v5onai aoosns oas ,oa1S sa
Miss Betty Rose, Maurice Weinberger.
Hunter hacks-First. MAyring, Mrs Z
H. Augustus; second. Protest. Mr.. and Mrs