Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-14
Making Show Debut.
Scamp Top Horse
In Hi||daIe
Speed Demon Captures
Reserve Honors; D. c.
Maids Ride Well
BY ROBERT HENRY,
Star Stan Correspondent.

star Stan Correspondent.
wARRENTON, Va, July 13-Al-
though competing in his first show.
Scamp, . 5-year-old owned by
North Fletcher and ridden by Alex
Calvert and Jane Wilbur, was
judged the best animal in the Hill.
dale Horse Show, held at New Bal.
timore, near here, today. Reserve
honors went to Mrs. D. N. Lees
Speed Demon, which was ridden by
Aubrey Fishback.
In winning the title Scamp, q
Missouri-bred bay which Fletcher
purchased last year at Kansas City,
managed to win the ladies' hunters
with Miss Wilbur up and placed
second in the working hunters and
the touch and out after two extra
rounds with the victorious Gold
Star from w. A. Laings stable.
Washington Girls Score.
Speed Demon, winner of the Ar
lington Hall show title last spring,
took first in the green hunters and
second in the ladies' hunters, when
ridden by Miss Wilbur. He also
teamed with Horace Moffett's
Brown Boy to earn third In the
hunter pairs class, which was won
by Sally Spilmans Light MCGEE
and Ray McEenahan's Penny.
Two Washington girls made good
when Laura Ann Hughes of Be-
thesda won the bareback jumping
class astride Chateaurock and Eliz-
abeth Marsh of Chevy Chase won
the handy hunters with Gold Vein.
Miss Marsh and Gold Vein also
placed second in the bareback
event.
Novice Rider Triumphs.
The show, staged by youngsters
OF this town, attracted a gay crowd,
which took advantage of clear skies
to watch the IA classes. Proceeds
of the show will 60 to the Fauquier
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross. Otto Furr, prominent
horseman Of Middleburg, judged,
while Mrs. James Guitar was ring.
master.
A 16-year -old girl who has rid.
den for less than two months won
the handicap jumpers class with .
horse that never before had been
shown. The winning combination,
Ruth OKeefe and her mount, MY
Starlight, had to jump of several
times before taking the blue ribbon
over Bud Spilmans Little Gentle.
man and Fletcher's Law Abiding.
The blue was Miss OKeefes first
She was-or is-being taught to ride
by Calvert.
saddl. poniesLwon by Sunny South,
second. Peach Melba. owned and ridden by
&; Oliver Isslin: IT,; third. June; owned BY
Green saaeb By q p s.Dh K1
fishback: second. Spy Master. owned and
.nd r Gsssrf s, w. Gesi.
rr ssreosck jumpins-Won BY Laura Ann
HMu as on Ghsteaurock second. Elizabeth
, Hunter : hssks1won BY Spy Master.
G sde oTne es AsS eaS.5 End
ace Monett ridden By Tommy cooi. ~
and ridden BY Dorothy Fred: second. Peach
h Se1 nc-o ~; tnira; Plum, owned and ridden
Working hunters-won by Little Miss.
owned and ridden by Frost Anderson sec
ond, Scamp, owned by North Fletcher rid.
den BY Alex Calvert: third The Banshee.
Owned ny Dunhallow Farm, ridden By Mary
Pony touch and out.won BY Sunny
Downes; second. Peach Media, owned and
aasa 81 8 SOlh Iss a stable II. third 1sa5 June
Handy hunters-won by Gold Vein.
owned and ridden by Elizabeth Marsh:
felt, ridden by Tommy Cook; third. Blond
KNIGHT, owned and ridden by Frost An.
:. Handicap jumpers-won BY NY Star.
second. Little Gentleman. owned and rid.
den BY. B. Spilman: third. Law Abiding.
owned BY North Fletcher, ridden By Alex
Ladies' hunters-won by Scamp, owned
by North Fletcher, ridden by Jane Wilbur;
second. Speed Demon. owned by Mrs. Lee,
ridden BY Miss Wilbur; third The Banshee.
%;ss n.y.. 6y Runhallow Farm. ridden BY
owned and ridden b. Miss spiim an. and
Penny, owned and ridden by Ray Mcclana-
han: second owned and ridden By Mary
den 81 W. " QUICK third. speed b. pem ION.
owned by Mrs. Lee, ridden by Mr.. Fish.
back, and Brown Boy. owned By Mr.. Moi.
felt. ridden by Mr.. Cook.
owned By 'Rs Isins ~ edde a0d !, si H.
fletcher. ridden S By Hr. c Calvert; third .
Cork, owned by Dunhallow Farm. ridden
chsmpionship-won BY Scamp; reserve.