Evening star., 1949-11-04
Virginia Horses Hold
Edge in Young Hunter
al Show
BY Angelina }. Corobelli
: SpeeieI Correspendent Of The Stor

BY Angelina }. CorobelIi
| SpeeioI Correspondent Of The S>or
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-As the
66th annual National Horse Show
moved into the halfway mark of
its eight-day meet the young
hunters are staging one Of the
closest battles of the show with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Haggin Perry's
Joseph's Coat from Gotham. Va,
and Mrs. Gregory McIntosh's
Really Rugged from Warrenton,
Va. separated by a slim half
point.
Joseph's Coat, a 16-hand, f.
year-old grey gelding by Imp
Barred Umber, under the expert
enced handling of Stewart Lam
ham. scored a win in the light
weight young hunter event and
was third in the class for horses
suitable-to+hecome hunters for
his six-point score.
Really Rugged, also a 4-year-.
old, was winner of the suitable
to-become hunters and was Sec
ond in the lightweight young
hunters for his 512-point score.
Hugh Gentry piloted this hand
some chestnut head play gelding
to his score,
Upperville Horse Wins.
Next in line from the Llangol-
len Farm at Upperville, Va, is
Mrs. E. Cooper Persons Adven-
ture with S points. Adventure,
ridden by Ellie Wood Keith, who
rode the 5-year-old chestnut geld
ing to the National Conformation
Hunter Championship last year,
was winner of the young middle
and heavyweight class. The
North-South battle in the young
hunter division has become
strictly an Old Dominion affair.
with eight of the 10 horses scor-
ing being products of Virginia's
breeding establishments. T.,
The race for top conformation
hunter honors has developed be-
tween the Canadian invader Gold
Lode. owned by the Cardy Farms
of Montreal and DR.. and Mrs.
Alvin I. Kay's Washington-owne
Portmaker.
With Mrs. Alex Clavert from
Warrenton doing her usual out
standing saddle work, Portmaker
made his only appearance of the
day winning one by taking a
well-deserved blue in the middle
and heavyweight conformation
hunter class.
Holds 2-Point Edge.
The Cardy entry. a 16.1-hand,
8-year-old bay gelding, who was
third in last years $4,000 Hunter
Stake. retains his 12-point tally,
while Portmaker now has 10
points with another middle and
heavyweight class to 60. Gold
IOQe is a l1gntWe1ght.
Sterling Smiths Sun Beau from
Ravenna, Ohio, who last year was
reserve jumper champion, has
now moved into the top spot with
IL points. Ridden by Freeland
Evans, Sun Beau also was the
winner of the $3.50 three-day
touch-and-out series, scoring 8
points.
Morton w. Smiths Ping Pong
still has a 10-point score in the
jumper division.
Another Cardy invader, Atomic,
an 8-year- -old black gelding with
Bob Eagan riding, also is making
a bold bid for the leaper honors.
Atomic took two blues yesterday,
scoring decisive win in the open
F. E. I. event, and was victorious
in the second competition of the
three day knock down and out
contest for 10-point tally.
Bay Gets Applause.
Eleven-year-old Spunky Fisher
from Salisbury, N. c., riding Rol-
land H. Berry's Misdemcanor,
took the deafening applause of
the 10000 spectators as the lad
rode the aged brown mare to vic
tory in the last event of the three
day toucn-and-
The Mexican Army teams win
ming streak continues without too
much effort, taking both military
events of the day.
In the first event of the three
day international low-score COM
petition challenge trophy class,
the first team event of the show.
the Mexican team had excellent
rounds to place over the Irish,
Canadian and Chilean teams
that finished in that order.
The Mexicans also took the
General Manuel Avila Camacho
Trophy in the relay event, finish
ing the test in 3 minutes, 80 sec
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