Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewiekley Valley's Home News Weekly
Vol. 34.   No. 26.
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940
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"Grand View Barrister" and "Browning," the prize-winning hackneys once owned hy the late William L. Clause.
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HORSE SHOW WEEK
Opens Today on the Heights
More colorful in many respects than
any previous show, the Eighteenth Annual Allegheny Country Club Horse
Show, today, Friday, and Saturday, is
having a number of features never
heretofore listed.
The Show, which will bo hold morning and afternoon, open to the public,
is being staged for the benefit of tho
Valley Hospital of Sewiekley.
As is done at the Rolling Rock Hunter Trials in the fall, the Sewickley Hunt
pack of breeding hounds will bo exhibited Saturday afternoon prior to
the hunt team class.
Another feature oi this year's show
will be the polo division, in which the
riders -are attired «nd mounted just as
if they were playing polo. Thoy are
judged on their ability to handle their
ponios  as  if playing.
A special emphasis is .being made this
year on tho children's classes as was
dono last year, It will bo remembered
that tho Saturday morning attendance
last year was the largest in the history
Of tlio Sewickley Horse Show, and with
good weather, this record is expected
to bo broken next Saturday. Once again
the  Hamilton  children from Virginia,
Barry, Jimmy, and Peggy will 'be out
for honors, as .well as most of the youthful riders from the various hunt clubs
in this end of tho State. A highlight
of this year's show will be the second
competition for tho Stonedale cup,
which was set up last year by A. M.
Byers in memory of Malcolm MeGiffin
and his hunter, Stonedale. Miss Katherine Louise Taylor took down the first
leg on the cup at the Boiling Eock
Hunter  Trials  last   September.
For tho first time tho valuable trophies will be on public exhibition this
year, and luncheon will be served on
the horse show grounds each day. In
light of tho fact that the show is being
held ns a charity affair, and further
in view of tho expected good weather,
for the first time in years, new attendance records are confidently expected by tho horse show committee, headed
by Mr. W. Cl. Robinson, Jr., and tho
hospital committee, headed, iby Mr. J.
0. Flower.
Known to all followers of the ring
sport, Miss Laula Long Combs of Kansas City, Missouri has entered twelve
of her prize winning ponies, her first
appearance at the Sewickley show.
Her ponios won many honors at the
Devon show, which just closed,
Adrian   Van  Sindoren   of  Washing
ton, Connecticut, president of the
American Horse Show xVssoeiation, has
his valuable hackney ponies on the
scene, seven of them to compete with
those of Miss Long and Mrs. AV. P.
Roth, owner of the fampus Why Worry
Farm in California. Mrs. Roth, who for
a number of years exhibited the famous
Sweetheart on Parade, has entered
twelve horses which have just completed a successful invasion of the
East.
One of the most colorful stables in
the United States, the Pinehurst Stable
owned by Mr. and Mrs. 10. W. Brown,
Jr., Orange, Texas has sent twelve prize
winning hackney ponies to Sewickley
and the famous Dixinna Stables in Lexington, Kentucky will be represented
as will Miss Mary V. Fisher of Detroit.
Another outstanding exhibitor who will
have horses at the show is Miss Virginia Penfield of Columbus,  Ohio.
Here, for the first time, will be the
eight horses owned, by Mr. and Mrs. L,
Victor Weil of Flbcron, New Jersey.
Mr. Mellon will exhibit his many-time
winners; Melton, II, Night Flight, Field
Marshal, and Gone Away, and will exhibit, for the first lime in this part of
the United. States, his hunters; Windmill, Wilpen, Breezowood, Pigeon, and
Lawyer Gray. The president of tho Roll
ing Rock Hunt Race Association will
also send his hunt team after top
honors.
Showing for the first time in Sewiekley, will bo horses from tho Valley Hunt
Club of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Chestnut Ridge Hunt at Uniontown and
Westmoreland Hunt at Greensburg will
also be represented by hunters and
jumpers.
Miss King, one of tho best known
exhibitors of harness horses, heavy and
pony, has entered eight. Most of these
big stables are exhibiting iu the East
at the present time and have been taking down top honors at tho shows, including the current show -at Devon,
Miss Loula Long Combs of Kansas
City, Missouri, another nationally famous harness horse and hackney pony
exhibitor, has entered twelve ' of her
prizo winners; and the harness .class
this year at Sewickley 'will bo the best
ever scheduled at tho Heights ring.
Miss Combs is ono of a number of horse
show exhibitors who will be showing
at Sewickley for the first time.
Henry Lawrouce Bell of Baysidc,
New York, and William T, Carter of
Philadelphia will be the judges of
hunters and jumpers, and Charles W.
Green of SctlaHa, Missouri will judge
harness horses and ponies.
mwaam