Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-08
By DOLORES PHILLIPS

BERRYVlLLE, va, Mdrcn D.
The Blue Ridge Hunt takes
over the point-to-point relay
this Saturday at Colonel and
Mrs. Graham DoughertyS'
"Woodley" and will be hard
pressed to draw the enormous
crowd that showed UP for
Rappahannock's meet last
Saturday.
Having tasted the thrills
that went with the spills in
almost every race down at the
Jim Bill Fletchers' Thornton
Hill" spectators. instinctively
a blood-thirsty lot, will expect
more of the same.
Alex Mackay-Smith, Master
OF the Blue Ridge Hunt, and
one of the judges last Satur-
day, must have wondered how
many entries he would have
left for his own races this Sat-
urday as the ambulance carted
off rider after rider.
Breaks Wrist
Randy Rouse, who came out
from the Fairfax Hunt to ride
in the heavyweight Ben Venue
was the only real casualty
when he broke his wrist.
Randy had to move over in
the ambulance to make room
for Joe Rogers who fell in the
same race. While Audrey
Meadows held Randy's good
hand. Joe, who was the only
doctor on the grounds,
switched roles and diagnosed
Randy's injury.
Mickey Arundel, son of Rus
sci Arundel, former Master of
the Warrenton Hunt, dislo-
Gated his shoulder and shared
the busy ambulance with
Grover Stephens who fell in
the same race while up on
Jamie McCormick's Norsud.
Mickey, with his arm in a
sling, went on to the cocktail
party at Mrs. William Slaugh-
ter's after the race where there
were almost as many people as
on the hillsides during the aft
ernoon.
The British, seasoned to rug
ged point-to-points, were out
strong from Washington and
watched from every hill. Lord
William Astor came with jim
mic and Alice Mills, who have
Just returned to their Middle
burg farm from Italy and the
Olympic winter games.
Vice Air Marshal Selway.
stationed in Washington with
the British Military Mission,
came out from Washington
with his group, and Wing
Commander George Belcher
helped Joe Rogers in the pad
dock while Molly Belcher and
their two sons picnicked with
a group from Leesburg.
Beverley and Martha Byrd,
also just back from a trip
abroad, were with the Blue
Ridge crowd, including Mes
danes George Greenhalgh, ST.,
and jr.. Richard Dole and his
new bride, and Mrs. Russell
Dart who watched her hus-
band Chuck ride a handy. if
lonely race, to win the Ben
Venue after every other rider
had fallen.
Smithson Broadhead, an
other Englishman American
lied to the point of building
a home outside of Middleburg,
came down with a group from
the Orange County Hunt, most
OF whom were at the Broad
heads tea last Wednesday
when SmithSon's portrait of
Nashua was shown to a Sc
lect public for the first time.
To Exhibit
The Oil painting, which
shows Nashua standing in full
sunlight with Sonny Fitz-
simmons on a bench to the
right and the two Broadheads
in the background TO the left
(Broadie said he didn't want
to bother anyone else to pose)
has been sent to New York
where it will be exhibited at
the Wildenstein Galleries.
Broadie had done several
paintings for the Saratoga
Museum of racing Americana
but, with Edith, is planning a
long vacation in England. They
will leave Middleburg in April.
There were almost as many
masters and eX-maSterS of