Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-21
BY DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer

BY DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer
The Potomac Horse Center,
located between Rockville
and Travilah, Md, in the
heart of the Potomac Hunt
country, is the newest, and
certainly the most enormous
housing for horses in the
Washington area.
According to F. G.
Sire G. h. Harting, who
thought up the center and
built it, it's probably the
largest in the East, having a
Widespread of 80 by 200
feet in it's indoor riding
arena and thirty-seven box
stalls surrounding the hall.
There's a clubroom over
looking the riding hall, a
slide and movie room with a
library. a tackroom as neat
as a CTS foot locker, and
a cross-country course that
might make some shudder,
and others drool, depending
upon a pupils ability.
This weekend the Potomac
Horse Center is playing host
to the contestants in the
International Horse Shows
dressage tests. contestants
who hope to win the honor
of exhibiting at the D. c.
Armory on Tuesday and
Wednesday nights. The win
ners of yesterday and today's
tests will ride on these two
nights, although Jessica New
berry will exhibit her skill at
dressage every night during
the show.
Three tests were held yes
terday, the AHSA Al test,
the F. E. I. Prix st. George
and the AHSA B-1. Today,
starting at l o'clock, the
AHSA open class will be
held and at 3 o'clock,
the F. E. I. intermediate
tests will be run off. The
public is invited to come out
and watch this specialized
but integral part of the In
ternational. There will be no
Arthur Godfrey on Goldie,
but watching might lead to
a better understanding of
what dressage actually is.
Western Type
Thirty cutting horses,
some of which will be used
in a demonstration at the
show, are also stabbed at
the center. Cave jewellers,
who had the stalls to them
selves, had to be turned out
at Stretch Harting's farm to
make way. When indoor
stalls gave out, temporary
stalls were put up around
the huge, domed building.
It's quite a busy place, CIV
ing Stretch Harting and
John Ship, executive vice
president, a chance to show
their mettle. Actually, they
both went fox hunting with
Potomac on Thursday as
therapy from all the cares
of the horsey and human
world.
John Shipp, an English
man who stayed here after
his last tour of duty because
he liked the United States,
is secretary of the United
States Combined Training
Association, treasurer of the
Potomac Hunt, and ran the
National Pony Rally when il
was held at Travilah this
summer, feels that the horse
center will fulfill many needs
in the Washington area. He
says the only thing it isn't
is "a livery stable" although
it offers many different di-
visions of instruction, from
classes for children through
three-day event instruction.
| Fills the Bill
| Several of these classes have
| already started, although the
| tanbark is hardly dry ir
| the arena. Mrs. Charles
| Jackson, a graduate of tn,
Silver Hound Riding Schoo
in Surry, England, has 4.
class for children on Satur
day mornings, which opened
on october 6. Limited to tel
/ pupils for nine lessons, tn
| class is held indoors, or out
depending on the day. TIL
center even provides ponies
If there are none in the bacl
yards of suburbia. Parent
can, and do, sit in the clul
room, far enough up, and be
hind glass windows, to watcl
their would-be Olympic rid
ers.
| These same mothers cal
take a class of their own
starting on october 81. Jan
| Jackson will also teach thi
course, which runs through
December 10. She points out
in her quiet way, that it nigh
be called THE Nervou
Mothers Class" Baby-sitter'
go with this class, and ever
lunch in the clubroom aftel
the class is over al