Evening star., 1953-04-05
By Robert B. Phillips
Spee;oI CORRESPONDENT Of the Stog


Spee;oI Correspondent Of the Stog
BERRYVILLE, Va, April A.
Last fall Eugene du Pont Wey-
of Pennsylvania was in
in timber racing. He
won five in a row in Maryland,
New Jersey and his home State
and owned the champion timber
horse of the year. He was rid
ing high.
This spring young Weymouth
came to the country race meet
ings in Virginia. He found them
sorely puzzling.
First he got lost in the woods
at Piedmont and a young farmer
named Russell Dart beat him in
a contest for the Rokeby Bowl.
Today in the Blue Ridge Hunt
point-to-points he wound up
where few jockeys have wound
up before. He fell off his horse
while the horse was headed the
wrong way through the finish
flag. What's more, he collided
with the third horse in the race.
which was headed in the right
direction but on the wrong side
of the flag. At the moment of
collision he was beaten by the
horse that had finished second
by a head when THEY were
both headed in the right direc-
ton but also on the wrong side
of the flag. No wonder he fell
off.
Weymouth Loses.
The result was that Weymouth
lost the race and another fell
low won-which is the point of
this story. Get a hold on your
self and see if we can work this
out without a diagram.
The race was the Joseph w
Lewis Memorial of slightly more
than three miles over timber
The starters were Mrs. James P.
McCormick's Black Fox Run,
with Weymouth in the saddle;
Llangollen Farms Lady Beware,
ridden by Sidney Culver. and
the ridden DR.. Ober from
Leon T. Greenway's stable.
Black Fox Run took the lead
at the start. To mix both zoolo-
gy and metaphors he ran like
a gazelle and jumped like
stag. Throughout the race Cul-
yer and Lady Beware were
dogging in his wake. Lady Be-
ware lost ground at the fences,
made it up between jumps and
after the final fence put on a
squirt like a quarter horse run
ming for Texas money.
Young Weymouth was caught
in a hand gallop when he should
have been in a dead run. While
he was busy shaking up Black
Fox Run, he failed to notice that
he was bearing too close to the
judges wagon and to the right
of the finish flag. Culver and
Lady Beware were inside and
as he bore over Black Fox Run
carried them off course with him.
In that round Black Fox Run
was first by head.
Might Have Claimed Foul,
Culver could have come back
to make claim of foul. Instead
he quick wittedly whirled Lady
Beware and dashed between the
flags. When Weymouth realized
what had happened he also re-
versed course on Black Fox Run
and the crowd had the feeling
that in this movie someone was
running the protector backwards.
At that point Greenaway and
DR.. Ober were just coming up
the stretch. Various interested
parties were hoofing alongside
Greenaway advising him to pull
toward the center and get be-
tween the flags. He could not
hear them for the uproar. AS
DR.. Ober passed the judges, Black
Fox Run was also passing them
for the second time. There was
some humping and wheeling and
all 6-foot-3 of Mr.. Weymouth
came tumbling down. He quickly
remounted and finished between
the flags once again, just to
make it stick. BY that time
Culver - another Blue Ridge
farmer-was heading up the hill
to pick up the trophy.
It was Culver's second victory
of the day. He had collected the