Evening star., 1940-09-15
Recall and Isolde Top.
Five Sport Glasses
In Montgomery
Four and Six Horse 1eums
Provide Most Thrills
For Crowd Of 5000
BY JACK ALLEN,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

OLNEY, Md, Sept. 1.-THE lowly
farm horse, docile and slow footed,
took holiday from chores today.
met his more airy counterpart of
the show ring on common ground
and came off with better than an
even break.
Wheeling through their PAGES
with brass-studded, highly polished
~cck" flashing in the sun and
harness bells jingling a CHEEKY tune
four and six horse teams caught
and held the fancy of the gallery
at the 11th annual Montgomery
County Horse Show
Some 5000 persons who witnessed
the event thrilled to the per-
'formances of hunters and jumpers
that held the stage in the after
noon, particularly those of Charles
c. Carrico, which won five blues,
but their greatest kick came dur
ing the team classes in the morning.
1t may have been because the
Montgomery meet primarily is a
show for the farmer and his mount
and because a vast majority of the
gallery was drawn from the agri-
cultural sections of Howard and
Montgomery Counties, that the work
horses seemed more popular.
Abe Bennett Winning Driver.
In the farm horse competitions
were many teams of huge horses
drawing brilliant-hued red, green
and yellow wagons-many of them
painted for today's affair-and with
drivers riding astride saddles atop
the wheel morse. About 40 took
part.
Abe Bennett, handling a team
from the farm of Howard Streaker,
at West Friendship, in Howard
County, emerged triumphant in the
driving contest for four-horse teams.
while Ralph Leishear of Brookeville
took similar test for handlers of
six-horse teams with a group from
his own farm
Prominent among the ribbon vim
hers in the farm competitions, too
we're the names of Frank N. Stauffei.
Lee Counselman. c. A. Eaves, Ed
ward VESSEL. Elbin Oliver. Wallace
Cashell. Merhle King, Russell Priebe
Walter Brown, jr and others.
Before surrendering the arena to
the regular show ring prides in the
afternoon the farm toilers put on a
magnificent parade with horse and
mule teams, mares with their foals,
thoroughbred and draft stations
stepping proudly before the admir-
ing throng.
Canadian Ensign SparkIes.
One of those which attracted keen
attention was Canadian Ensign,
which. shown by Raymond H. Nor
ton OF Washington, had won the
thoroughbred stallion class
While appearing in this section
for the first time. Canadian Ensign
Is we'll known as the sire of MANY
good show horses. including Miss
Eleanor Moffett's Candolette. from
Asheville, N. c.. winner of several
championships in the North and
high point scorer in the Columbus
horse show at Chevy Chase, Md,
last week end.
IN QOmlndtlng the afternoon SeS-
sion. Carrico. Potomac, Md. horse
man. won the hunter hacks. hunters.
ladies hunters and open saddle class
with his reliable chestnut. Recall.
and took the hand, hunters class
with Isolde, latest addition to his
barn.
He had the mount on his horses
In each competition except the lad
les hunters event. when Miss June
Curran took over the riding Of Re-
call and captured the blue.
In only four classes did Carrico's
horses fail to emerge triumphant.
Willlar- Stevens, a member of the
University of Maryland Riding Club,
won the touch and out with the
Sligo Riding Academy's Cody after
Jump off with l.. j. Fritz Larrv's
Lady. Mercer Fadeley of Edgemoor.
Md, won the junior hunters with
Sklppy and Miss Florence FITZGERALD
OF Washington accounted for the To-
cal hunters class with her Dams
Rocksand
In the pair hunters class Sligo
Riding Academy's Cody, handled bv
Stevens, and Albert Stabler's Re
porter, ridden by Miss Erma Bryant,
combined to take down first place