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(Rappahannock Hunt’s) point-to-point is so friendly — you know their horse show is going to be friendly.”
Almost 30 horses were entered in the soggy show which featured 20 classes with divisions for ponies, hunters and pleasure horses, and a special division for members of a recognized hunt. Joan Jones, master of the Bull Run Hunt of Manassas, judged the wet, muddy event.
After several hours of rain, the flat grass ring beside Rt. 231 became a slippy quagmire which proved quite challenging to most horses and riders. Fortunately nobody fell, but there were a few close calls, and everybody had to adapt their riding styles to the conditions.
“It’s difficult judging in this sort of weather,” said Mrs. Jones. “You have to make allowances for the conditions. Horses slip on the turns, and a lot of them peck the fences.
“But it kind of judges itself. If the horses make an arc over the jump that’s good. I take points off if they hang their legs or kick their heels up. Some of the older hunters appeared to get better the deeper it got. The conditions probably hurt the green horses the most.”
The day’s high-point scorer was a seasoned hunter, Patty Drummond’s Cool Hand Luke. Ms. Drummond has owned and hunted this horse for 10 years. The pair, who Ms. Drummond admitted “are both kind of ring sour,” made the journey from Culpeper — “to support the hunt.”
The Culpeper rider got a big reward for supporting her hunt. Cool Hand Luke won the hunt members’ di
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