Evening star., 1940-05-15
Affair This Week End
Expected 10 Match
Best Of Past
Many Notable Equines
'Thot Have Competed
Here Are Recalled
BY ROBERT HENRY.

Inc Dig washington horse show
coming up Friday and continuing
Sunday at the spick and
%span Meadowbrook Saddle Club or
( the East-West highway, once agair
the exhibition is going big time
Not many years ago the show was
one OF the grandest in the country
but for one reason or another 1t
slipped a bit. Now, however, it's
coming back strong.
- Upon occasion in the past 1C
years many of the finest hunters
jumpers and saddle horses in Amer
lea have taken championship rib
bons in this show, and with more
than $50 horses from some 60 stables
ready to compete this year keen
competition again is due.
Rich Prizes in 1890.
Going back to 1890 when the show
was held at Bradley Farms, near
the Congressional Country Club, the
management evidently had not
heard of the depression for rich stake
classes were in abundance. One
class, the $1,000 3-gaited saddle
horse stake, was won by Henry L.
Fonda's American I'd, trained by
Forrest Ward, now a well-knoWn
Judge. Among the prominent hunter
winners at that show, beset with
rain. was Richard K Melons Holy
River, Maj George S. Patton, jr's
Hukupu and D. B. Smiths Jay Zee
There were many large out-of-
town stables represented then but a
local horse, Shamrock, owned by
Alpheus E. Ryan, took leading hon.
ors in the jumper events. Mrs.
James Guitar, who will judge the
Junior classes this year, won an i'm
portant class with E. W. Noble S
Marcarita, riding side saddle.
1t Rained Again in 1881.
Rain again caused discomfort at
The 1881 show in which Melons gray
horse, Royal Urn. took top hunter
laurels and American I'd repeated
in the saddle division. 1t was then
that Royal Urn broke loose while
being led into the ring to receive the
tricolor and caused a mild panic
among the fans before being caught.
Also, Deborah Rood, who has helped
with the coming show, took bad
spill while showing Capt. Brandy
wine in the triple bar event, and a
horse ridden by Elizabeth Martin
ran away and slightly injured Vir-
ginia Yellott. Likewise in this show
Mrs. Simon Patterson's Thunder
crash won leading hunter prizes
from the entries that numbered
close to $50 and Margaret Cotter and
Betty Couzens were doing right well
trying to win pony classes on Smil-
Ing Through and Bean Beetle.
A two-day rain delayed the 1882
show, but when it was over Mrs
John Hay Whitney's Gray Knight
was the grand hunter champion and
Louis Leith's Jumping Fool was
open jumper boss. George and An
thony Rives' Sporty McGinty won
three saddle classes opening day and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Plummer's S
Clearanfast took the heavyweight
hunter championship. Fort Myers
Squire won the triple bar in which
William Stevenson's Rathfarham
was injured so severely that he was
destroyed.
1894 Show Well Patronized.
Clear weather brought out large
crowd for the 1884 show and Mrs.
Robert Guggenheims Firenze Red
Tape outdueled. Mrs. Whitney's
Gray Knight, Bon Diable and Two
Leggins to take the grand cham
pionship. Miss Cotter and Miss
Couzens took a prize for the neatest
tack room and Charley Lewis, now
trainer for Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Un-
termyers winning stable, won a
horsemanship class for youngsters.
Rocksie, with Owner j. j. Cotter
up, won the working hunters
sweepstakes.
Virginia entries cleaned up the
following year, 1895, with Mrs. Whit
ney's Bon Diable winning most
everything in sight, including the
grand championship. All told, the
Upperville sportswoman acquired q
ribbons, II blue Danny Shea, who
had bought Squire, won most OF the
jumper classes, with Fort Myers
Sandy close by. Stanley Green's
Queen of Sheba and Robert Palmer's
Busy Bee staged close competition
In the pony events, although the
former usually won. Saddle horses
were not so prominent that year.
Mrs. Guggenheim stable came
back strong in 1886 and Red Tape
was grand champion, with Helen
Bedford's Woodfellow reserve. Red
Tape included among his many VIC
tories the $500 hunter stakes. A
big horse named Applejack, owned
by Emery Galliher, was the open
Jumper champion and scored first
in the $500 jumper stake. Fentor
Fadley's Lacquer Lady won the sky
scraper and an Army horse, Clipped
Wings, took the scurry class with a
great round.
Red Tape Victor in Battle.
In 1887 battle between Red Tape
Gray Knight and Mrs. Robert Ellis
worth's Chatter Chat, champion at
the Garden the year before, finally
was won by Red Tape as Clipped
Wings won the jumper stake with
1t. Frank Henry up. Little Anne
Clay Bayley of Middleburg beat
Eddie Talbert, Margaret Hill and
others to win the good hands class
The Maytop Stables great Bartend-
er bowed to Firenze Gay Lady in the
triple bar, and Mrs. George P
Greenhalgh's Merry Prince per-
formed creditably in the hunter
classes. The show was moved to
Meadowbrook that year and cleal
weather attracted banner crowd
Old Dominion entries scored heav-
lily in 1888, such owners as Morris
Clark, Ernest Redman, c. v. Henkel
and Mrs. Greenhalgh winning reg