Evening star., 1940-06-23
Terry Drury's Punch
Bags Pony laure|s
Al Warrenton
3-Yeor-OId Combination
Awarded Title Over
Anne Hills Sweeper
BY ROBERT HENRY,
Star Stan Correspondent.

WARRENTON, Va, June 22-
Lack of age and size meant nothing
to 3-year-old Terry Drury and her
3-year-old pony Punch here today.
After winning two successive classes
they ended up with the grand cham
pionship of the 21st annual War
renton Pony Show, oldest exhibition
Of its kind in the country.
Although competing against many
of the East's most successful young
riders and ponies, little Miss Drury
and Punch, an 112 hands high
chestnut which was leading for the
title last year when illness forced
his retirement, scored straight firsts
in the small saddle class and little
children's lead-in class in which
Terry's mother, Mrs. Percy Drury,
led the combination around the ring
at swift canter.
Reserve to Punch was Anne Dud-
ley Hills Sweeper, champion last
year. Saddle championship honors
went to Iron Duchess, 1888 cham
pion, owned by George Rexrode of
Seven Oaks, Md. Mrs. Robert c.
Winmill's Happy Boy was reserve
in this division.
Gray Knight Best Hunter.
In the hunter class the Dunnot-
tar Farms Gray Knight, ridden by
8-year-old Jimmy Hamilton, was
judged best, with Sweeper reserve.
All three titles were awarded In a
light rain by the judges, Mrs. Dean
Bedford of Falston, Md, and How.
ard c. FAN of Merton, Pa.
One OF the surprises of the show,
directed entirely by Warrenton
youngsters, was the performance of
Nancy Marsh in winning both the
A. S. P. c. A. good hands and horse.
manship events. Substituting for
her older sister, Elizabeth, who suf-
fered broken wrist while schooling
yesterday, the 11-year-old Washing
ton girl now is eligible to compete in
the finals at the New York National
Show in November There she will
ride against her teachers, her sis.
ter, Elizabeth. and Ann Hughes. both
OF whom already have qualified.
Nancy started riding a year ago
and today's blues were her first.
She rode Goldvein, owned by her
sister.
Numerous doubles were scored.
Victorian II, we'll known to District
fans for his success the last two
years at the Washington show. won
the touch and out and the triple
bar. with Jackie Lee Payne up.
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Peach Melba. owned and ridden by
c. Oliver Iselin, jr., of Middleburg.
and, like Victorian, a former grand
champion here, won the novice
hunters and the saddle class for
large ponies. Ann Clay Bayley rode
her aged mount, Camelot. to VIC
tory in the class for middle size
ponies and also the hunters class.
in which performance. manners and
conformation counted.
Besides winning the hunter title,
Gray Knight scored in the Corin-
THAN to win leg on the Robert E.
Fernyhough, jr., Memorial Trophy,
named in honor of one of the show S
former directors, who died 10 years
ago at the age of 13. Riders in
this event were dressed in hunting
attire. Sweeper. winner Of the class
last year, placed fourth, just ahead
Of Punch, this time ridden by Jimmy
Gehringer.
Margaret Hill of Washington,
whose Pollyanna was 1896 hunter
champion, won a blue with a chest.
nut filly in the yearling lead-in class
over Martin Macys Jedrita. Light
MCGEE, owned and ridden by Sally
Spilman, president of the show, won
the Temple Gwathmey Memorial
Trophy by taking honors in the local
hunters class after an excellent
round