Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-12
Wide Open Contests
Mark First Day Of
GIenmore Show
By Angelina J. CorobeIIi
Speeiui Stor CORRESPONDENT

STANTON, Va, Aug H.
Wide-open races in all divisions
marked the close of the first days
session of the Glenmore Hunt
Clubs annual horse show which
opened it's two-day run here yes
terday. The show also is the first
of the four-way $4,000 Virginian
circuit which includes the COM
ing Bath County, Keswick Hunt
and Warrenton shows.
The working hunter division
finds two youthful owners separ-
ated by only one point. Maxine
TX, from Charlottesville, Va, with
her 8-year-old bay mare Ally
Broom, has scored liz points to
lead by one point over 13-year-
old Nancy Lee Huffman's Waverly
Molly from Hilton Village, Va.
Ally Broom, a smooth performer
by Chief Flynn Husky, scored a
win in the open working hunters,
placed in both the ladies' and the
working hunter hacks and was a
third in the lightweight working
hunters for her score. Waverly
Molly, a 15.1-hand 9-year-old
chestnut mare by Rock Minister
Menaka, well known to show audi
ences throughout the State, was
piloted by her young mistress to
blues in both the ladies and the
working hunter hacks, was third
in the open and fourth in the
lightweight event.
SnelIings in Front.
Donald Snellings from Fred
ericksburg, Va, IT, with his I'LL
hand, 8-year-old leaper Pretended.
now leading for Virginia State
1850 jumper honors, tops his divi-
sion here by one point over Rol-
land H. Berry's Harrisonburg
CVa.) entry, Misdemeanor. Young
SnellingS and Pretender scored in
every class entered. winning the
open jumpers, taking third in the
first day modified Olympia and
fourth in the warmup for eight
points. Misdemeanor, ridden by
13-year old Spunky Fisher, recov-
cred from broken leg suffered at
Culpeper, won the modified Olym-
pia and was third in the warmup
for seven points. Close behind
with six points is Hi Rock Farm
Hi-Rock, from Warrenton. With
only two half-point classes COM
pleted in the important confirma-
ton hunter division the honors
are divided equally between Mrs.
Gregory McIntosh'S Warrenton
entry, Really Rugged, and Shaw
nee Farms Gentry from HarrodS-
burg, KY. both horses scoring 312
points. Really Rugged turned
back the entire field to win the
coveted model event and was Sec
ond in the hunters under saddle.
Gentry, showing under the agency
of Mrs. Raymond Barbin, reversed
Really Rugged's showing by taking
the blue in the hunters under sad
die and placing in the model event.
Pony Competition Close.
The pony division is tight af-
fair with Mr.. and Mrs. w. Haggin
Perry's Watch Me under the guild
ance of 16-year- old Ann Everett
Yoe leading the field by 12-point
margin. Fox Hollow Stables Game
Cock, from Orange, a 4-year-old
chestnut gelding handled by Terry
Drury is next in line with his
stablemate Speculation close
third. Watch Me was winner OF
the large ponies under saddle and
the pony hunter hacks, and was
third in the pony warm-up for Z
markers. Game Cock took the
blue IN the handy hunters, and was
fourth in both the warm-up and
the ponies under saddle for 612-
point score. Speculation accumu-
lated 6 points by placing in the
ponies under saddle, the hunter
hacks and the pony warm-up.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Bonfoey
from Mortified Farm in Staunton
dominated the breeding divisions
with their entries taking nearly
all the awards in the mare and
foals and the foals of 1850 events