Evening star., 1941-03-21
Record Field Enters
For Piedmont Card
Of Three Races
Rokeby Bowl Featured
Meet Tomorrow Also
Packed With Class
BY LARRY LAWRENCE.

Certainly the largest, and prob
ably the most distinguished, entry
ever recorded in q Piedmont point
to-point card will face the starter in
the three races to be held tomorrow
at pm, on the broad acres of
Rokeby, home of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Mellon near Upperville.
In the featured event, which car
ries with its winning the famous
Rokeby Challenge Bowl, there are 25
top ranking hunters to battle it out
over the course which is more than
5 miles of Uphill and down dale 60
ing, over fences of every variety,
through brooks, over bitches and
well a usual point -to-point course.
There are four horses in this clas-
sic that will bear watching: Cnfton's
Gem, last years winner; Red
Flower, the cinderella mare" that
Francis Green rode to victory at
Warrenton last week; Mowgli, Mrs.
Crompton Smiths Redland's Bowl
winner. to be ridden by Johnny
Harrison in place of Crompton
Smith, who has not fully recovered
from q recent illness, and Capt.
Kirkpatrick's Sans Souci.
Heavyweight Race First.
The first race on the program is
the heavyweight which has II en-
tries, gentlemen weighing, with sad
dies, 200 pounds. The ladies' race
which follows has nine entries.
The committee in charge consists
of DR.. A. C. Randolph, M. F. H.,
chairman; D. C. Sands, M. F. H;
Fletcher Harper, M. F. H.; J. T.
Skinner, secretary; Robert Fletcher:
entries are as follows:
Heavyweight race for gentlemen, 2
pm.-Miss Katkin, DR.. Joseph Hor-
gan, Warrenton: Comedienne, T.
Beatty Brown, Upperville; Sedge-
vile, Mrs. Laurens M. Hamilton, The
Plains; Big Charlie, Gerald B. Webb,
jr, Middleburg; Stormy Weather,
Paul Mellon, Upperville; Memo,
Capt. Richard Kirkpatrick. Warren
ton; Mount Vernon. Alan M Scaife,
Pittsburgh: Bayard, A Mckay
Smith, White Post; Holy Smoke,
Stacy B. Lloyd, jr., Berryville;
Kingsman, Turner B. Wiltshire, Mid
dleburg; Ability and Tallow, Miss
Mary Maxwell, Warrenton.
Nine in Ladies' Race.
The ladies' race, at 2:45 pm, has
nine entries. These are Sky Painter,
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Whitney. Up
perville: Sid, Thomas Letter, of War
renton and Washington, to be ridden
by Mrs. Robert Peele; Mindale, Miss
Deborah G. Rood, of Wilmington:
The Banchee and Lady Flitaway,
Miss Maxwell; Copper Queen. Mrs.
Robert Chambers of New York;
Loops, Miss Lucy Duer. of Warren
ton; Rosette, Mrs. Robert Winmill
of Warrenton; Bard Broom, S. Prem
tice Porter. to be ridden by Mrs.
Porter.
The Rokeby Challenge Bowl will
be called at $3.50 pm. The entries
are Ability and Lady Flitaway, Miss
Maxwell; Waluka. Ridgeley White,
Chambers, N. Y; San Souci, Capt.
kirkpatrick; Tanger and Stars and
Stripes, Mr.. Mellon; Big Charlie,
Mr.. Webb; Sedgeville, Mrs. Hamil-
ton; Mischief, Gardner E. Prime,
Warrenton; Valor King. Frederick
Warburg, Upperville; Mowgli, Mrs.
Crompton Smith, to be ridden by
Johnny Harrison: Sunrarius, Newell
]. Ward, jr., Middleburg; Field Glass,
John E. Hughes, Middleburg; Cliff
tons Gem. to be ridden by w. P.
Hulburt, jr.; Mac Lad. Oliver c.
Filley, The Plains; Windsor Boy,
H. L. Welsh; Sky Knee, Albert
Hinckley, Warrenton; Mount Ver-
non, Mr.. Scaife: Harmonist, Leonard
Baghman; Red Flower, Mr.. Green;
Bard Broom, Mr.. Porter, Airy Spirit
and Sky Painter, Mrs. Whitney,
Tovarich, Alexis Sommaripa; and
Selfish Gain, Fletcher Harper.