Evening star., 1942-09-03
Big Warrenton Show
To Be Struggle Of
Equine Champs
Field Of 500 includes
1S Winners Of Major
| Tri-coIor Awords
BY LARRY LAWRENCE.

It will be battle OF champions
at the 43d annual Warrenton (va)
Horse Show, which gets under way
at . am. next Saturday and con-
tinues Labor Day, for there are at
least 1S winners of important tri-
colors among the 900 or more entries
that will compete In IS classes.
The hunter division alone has
about = dozen front-rank contend
ers for It's important awards. Be-
cause OF past performances the
logical favorites for the conforma-
ton title are Patricia Dupont S
Woodfellow crowned mpion
hunter of America in l941 and Mr..
and Mrs. w. Haggin Perry's equally
famous Cornish Hills, which many
equine enthusiasts, especially the
Virginia hunt crowd, felt had a
record superior to Woodfellow's and
merited the award conferred upon
the Dupont gelding. The moot
question as to which of these great
hunters is the better probably will
be decided during the show.
Two other magnificent hunters
are Charles c.. Harrison's Alas,
champion at Devon and Upperville
last year, and the Waverly Farms
imported Demas which has notable
tri-colors and q near-perfect con-
formation.
Others Reckoned With.
To be reckoned with in the flnal
count are such sterling smoothies
of the hunt field as U. S. Randle's
Troop and Gee Ray Bee, the latter
champion at Hilldale and Suitland
the Perry's Magic Luck. champion
at Culpeper, and Eileen Brents
Champion Ramos. Some top young
sters coming to the front are real
threats, though they have their own
battle-ground in the green hunter
championship and the Virginia
s-year r-old championship. Marbert
Farms Ferry Landing, Capt. and
Mrs. Alvin Kay's No Mistake, Mrs
E, Douglas Primes Pappy or North
Fletcher's Count Andrew may out
perform the more experienced steeds
to take the most important hunter
championship this side of Madison
Square Garden and that classic Is
out this year.
ANY of the contenders mentioned
above plus the Springsberry Farms
Billy Do, Ginnico and Big Boy; Rig
gan McKinney's Blaze Turpin, Hale
thorpe and Apple of Blarney and
other notables will make the work
ing hunter championship something
worth winning.
Ace Jumpers Compete.
NSesng for honors, in the jumping
division are a select group OF TIN
greatest timber r-toppers performing
in the Nations arenas today. The
most renowned Is Margaret Cotter's
Rocksie, National Open champion
His owner has brought the famous
gelding out Of retirement to defene
his honors Is the champion higf
Jumper Of Virginia, having estab'
lished the record Of s feet'7A inches
last summer.
Crowding Rocksie for the tri-colol
are such outstanding entries ai
Capt. Alvin Kays National Horse
Show winner Smacko, Warrentor
l941 open champion; David Martin.
Cateer, the triple bar champ ane
holder, with another entry, Randle.
Sport Marvel, of the 7-foot high
Jump record of the Capitals metro
politan area; Joe Pohzehls Randle':
Way, Donald Hostetter's Mahme
Bobby Hilton's Meddler and Houl
Congo from Charlotte. N. c.; tht
Springsbury Farms Billy DO anc
Big Boy.
There are several champs in the
running for the Virginia 3-year-ole
championship and the green hunter
tri-color. Also, the pony classes hav.
their quota Of title winners COM
peting for the pony and junior tor
honors.