Evening star., 1940-05-12
Aged Horse Cracks
Record After -Four
Deadlock in Jump
Smoeko and Speed Demon
Win Championships in
Arlington Hall Event
BY ROBERT HENRY.

BY ROBERT HENRY.
While Capt. Charles B. McClel-
lands Smacko won the jumper
championship and Mrs. D. N. Lees
Speed Demon won the hunter title
at the fifth annual Arlington Hall
Horse Show at Arlington, Va, yes
terday, Fred Hughes, jr., and his
veteran performer, Black Caddy,
stole leading honors by winning the
high jumping contest with a record
leap of feet 41a inches after series
Of gruelling jump-offs.
Competing against seven other
crack horses in a class especially
designed to break the local and
nearby record held by Margaret
Cotter and her mount. Rocksie,
Hughes rode his 13-year-old stallion
to victory with a mighty effort that
prompted small, damp gathering
to 60 haywire. Although standing
but 1873, Black Caddy, which shortly
before had failed in three tries at
the unprecedented height, made a
bold run at the slightly leaning bar
rier and went over without touch.
Stiff Competition Brings Record.
The record leap was made possible
through stiff competition from
Samuel Bogley's Ringmaster, Lisbeth
Stieg's Hi Ho and Ellie Leh's King
Rock. all of which outjumped them
selves to clear 6 feet, thus forcing
the poles up another notch. Each of
the four f1nalists had a chance to
win. but it remained for the popular
Hughes -Caddy combination to make
good. Caddy also was reserve to
Smacko.
The old record of feet inches
was made last year by Rocksie at
the Washington show, in which Miss
Cotter's famous champion defeated
Black Caddy after several exciting
rounds. Neither Rocksie nor his
owner were present yesterday to de-
fend their crown, Miss Cotter being
confined to her home following a
recent back operation.
While there was some dispute as
to the actual height of Caddy's
Jump, doubtlessly it will be &C
cepted as a record, officials of the
show, announcing after several
measurements from both sides of
the bars, that they stood at feet,
AZ inches although the first meas
urement called for 6 feet, 3 inches.
Many Stars Compete.
The show, stopped twice during
heavy downpours, brought out
many leading horses and riders from
the District, Virginia and Mary
land. Both the jumper and hunter
champions are Virginia owned.
Smacko being a Fort Myer entry
and Speed Demon claiming Middle
burg as his home. Smacko's jumper
victory was the third in three years
for an Army horse, Clipped Wings,
1887 and 1888 champion, also being
q service mount.
BY way of adding to the thrills
of the day, two young Arlington
Hall Junior College students, Sally
Seward and Jean Holden, took falls
while vieing in hunter classes held
over the outside course. Both spills
appeared serious at first, but quickly
proved otherwise. Shirley Payne,
trainer and rider of Mrs. George
P. Greenalgh's Springsbury Farm
stable from Berryville, Va, fell while
schooling in the morning and after
riding in several classes with sue
cess he was forced to retire.
Jumping in the open classes was
good and bad, but Gay Cockade,
owned and ridden by Capt. John
Collier, gave an outstanding per-
formance to win the 5000 jumper
stake over a special and tough
course. A front touch at the ninth
fence was the veteran mares on4y
mistake, while the runner-up and
champion, Smacko, had three faults.
Earlier Smacko had scored in the
handicap jumpers in which Gay
Cockade was third behind Killarney
Gray, owned by Robert A. Young
Of Allentown, Pa, with Jimmy
Marsh up.
Speed Demon Surprises.
In taking the hunter title, Speed
Demon surprised, it being only the
thoroughbred's second show. Rid
den by Aubrey Fishback of Warren
ton, Va, the handsome son of Zache-
vista took first in the Corinthian
from stablemate, Red Fox, and
also earned several minor ribbons.
Reserve champion was the Springs
bury Farms Billy Do, ridden by
Payne, Mrs. Greenhalgh and Capt.
McClelland. Billy won the road
hacks with Mrs. Greenhalgh up to
help earn for his stable a total of
four blue ribbons. Mrs. Lees en-
tries also won four blues.
Army horses, which always do well
at Arlington. picked up another first
when Clipped Wings. with 1t. James
Polk up, won the Kismet Special, a
novelty class named in honor of the
great 33-year-old jumper recently
retired by his owner, F. c. Klee-
man, manager Of the show. None
Of the service horses, incidentally,
were in the high jumping contest.
A special jumping class calculated
to settle for while at least the re-
spective merits of Arlington Hall and
Maryland University riders and
horses was won by the Arlington
team composed of Miss Leh, Miss
Seward, Miss Holden and Sue Rim
hart. Another school event, the in