Word: stallion
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...crowd about the ring was almost breathless with suspense. Dr. Jarrett had previously named two stocky white Sealyhams as best brace in the show, four of their dark-haired Scottish cousins as best team. Would he switch now to the great pointer, prancing proud and free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning...
There was a pawing Suffolk Punch stallion in gold-plated bronze. Its eyes were of ivory and onyx and lapis lazuli bows tied its braided mane. Baroque in muscle and violence, it was Sudbourne Premier, Britain's famed champion (1921-24). There was Haseltine's first champion job, King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford...
...lively little terrier who will soon capture you with his drollness and lively antics. Speaking of the animal world, Marguerite Steen has a new biography, Spider (Little, Brown, $2.50), is the story of the life of Richard Adams, the composer, told in the fascinating manner of the author of Stallion...
...Parade has been prancing off with blue ribbons for five- gaited saddlehorses, until last Sept. 11 at Louisville, Ky. when Mrs. Locke Brown's Bell Lee Rose outpointed her. Again last week Sweetheart on Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again...
...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...