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Located in the heart of Free Union and the Farmington Hunt, the property enjoys incredible panoramic mountain views. $1,100,000 STEVENS & COMPANY 4342966104 One Boar’s Head Place www.stevensandcompany.net 3 The Virginia Sportsman Oct/Nov 2013 4 The Virginia Sportsman Oct/Nov 2013 5 The Virginia Sportsman Oct/Nov 2013 CROSSED LINES 2013 Deep Run Horse Show The Bryan Trophy was presented to Mr. and Vintage Shotgun World Mrs. Lamont S. Bryan in 1962 by the Deep Championship Run Juniors to be put into competition at the Deep Run Show. The perpetual trophy is presented to the winner of the class based on the horsemanship demonstrated in jumping and hacking tests. The 2013 class was won by Nora Jodrey on Cashmere (Owner: Mark Bone), with trainer Virginia Edwards from Upperville, Virginia. Other competitors with a Virginia connection included Local Professional Grand Amateur Owner champion Amarillo with Winners: Jeff Neimann (foreground) owner/rider, Jane Gaston (Photo by David Bell) Champion: Cailler, Owner: Carilynn (L-R) Hal Hare, Carl Balderson, Carl Harlan, Rick Staples, Neil Wilkinson and Mark Douglas Peyton, Rider: Amy Nunnally; Local One of the East Coast’s oldest Professional Reserve Champion: horse shows was held June 19-23 at the Copperfield, Owner: Mary Keevil, Rider: The Virginia Sportsman, along Deep Run Hunt Club Show Grounds in Eric Dirks; Grand Amateur Owner with Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Manakin-Sabot, Virginia. The show as it Champion: Amarillo, Owner/Rider: Jane Company (CSMC), Ithaca Gun Company exists today was founded in the early 1950s Gaston; High Performance/2nd Year Green and Claybuster Wads, sponsored the 2013 but there are prize lists and other competition Champion: Falcon, Owner: The Barracks Vintage Shotgun Championship that took brochures for Deep Run horse shows dating (Charlottesville, VA), Rider: Maria place June 27-30 at the Clinton County back to the early 1930s. Paddy Downing- Shannon; and High Performance/2nd Year Farmers and Sportsmen’s Club in Nyegard, Thonotosassa, FL, Steve Wall, Green Reserve Champion: Catina, Owner: Wilmington, Ohio. More than 200 participants Waukesha, WI, and Cheryll Francella, Kimmee Gottwald, Rider: Robert Crandall. attended the four-day event, competing in Coatesville, PA were judges for this year’s As shown by the quality of horses the four traditional gauges. In addition, show, which is nationally AA-rated by the and riders competing at this year’s Deep there were special events for exposed- United States Equestrian Federation Run Horse Show, this Virginia tradition hammer side-by-side shotguns, 16-gauge (USEF). continues to be recognized as one of the shotguns and light game guns. Additional Many of the 250 riders and horses premier horse shows not only in Virginia, side matches were offered in all gauges for were from Virginia, while others hailed but also in the country. The show has been down-the-line trap and five-stand events. from such states as Maryland, North designation a Heritage Competition by the The original rules used at the Carolina, Florida and South Carolina. USEF and has previously won the United National Skeet Shooting Association’s first They competed in 225 classes over the five States Hunter Jumper Association World Skeet Shooting Championships in days, vying for championship awards and Members’ Choice Award. 1939 were enforced and only side-by-side hoping to gain points towards year-end or pump-action shotguns were allowed. No awards and/or qualifying shows for national Bonnie Rhea Adams superposed or semi-autos were permitted. competitions, while competing for more Deep Run Horse Show Vintage rules also state that the gun cannot than $40,000 in prize money. be mounted until the target emerges from One of the highlights of the show the house. That was the way the game was was the Bryan Trophy Horsemanship class. shot in 1935. 6 The Virginia Sportsman Oct/Nov 2013 The inaugural America’s Best Gun with world-renowned sailor and ESPN St. Mary’s College’s 40th Annual competition pitted the vintage L.C. Smith commentator Gary Jobson, regatta chair- Governor’s Cup Yacht Race shooting team against the neo-classic man and lymphoma survivor. CSMC team, with the CSMC team claiming “The Leukemia Cup Regatta is a the title. The 20-gauge HAA Title, sponsored great way for these boat enthusiasts to do by The Virginia Sportsman, was won by what they love while also helping the more Carl Harlan of Michigan. Other winners than one million people in North America included Rick Staples and Jeff Neumann of diagnosed with a blood cancer.” said Sheri Kansas and Hal Hare of Ohio. Lambert, Virginia chapter executive director. This year’s Honored Skipper, Rob Whittet, has been a committed participant ****************** in the regatta, setting sail each year for 15 Resolute, skippered by Francis Albert, came in years to help raise funds for cancer 10th in the PHRF A2 class. (Photo courtesy of PhotoBoat.com) research. His involvement became even The 15th Annual Southern more meaningful in 2010 when he was Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s St. Mary’s College’s 40th Annual lymphoma. His loyal crew readied the boat Governor’s Cup Yacht Race took placed at and he joined the team one day after being St. Mary’s City, Maryland, on Saturday, released from his first hospital stay. After August 3, 2013. Sailing enthusiasts from up nine months of chemotherapy, he recently and down the East Coast sailed into St. celebrated two years of remission. Mary’s City from starting points in Whittet says, “I’m so fortunate to Annapolis, Maryland, and Dahlgren, have received excellent medical care Virginia, on Saturday morning. throughout my journey, and there’s no Doug Savage and his wife, Liz question in my mind that the drugs they from Alexandria, Virginia, on Dark Star, Temptress skippered by Robert DeJong with crew pumped into my body saved my life. If you had their fastest Gov’ Cup race of 12 that Ken Schmalenberger won second overall in one of the cruising classes. (Photo by Jiho Han) look at the list of cancer drugs discovered in they’ve completed. “We had good winds the last few decades, you’ll discover that the whole night, all the way up to and funding by The Leukemia & Lymphoma across the finish line,” said skipper Doug The 15th Annual Southern Society was a vital part of their creation. Savage. Dark Star came in ninth in the Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta, voted My bout with lymphoma has been a wake- PHRF A2 class. Best Regatta of the Bay for the second year up call. Any wonder why I’m passionate in The Governor’s Cup Yacht Race is in a row, took place on the weekend of July my fundraising?” the oldest and longest race down the 12-14 in Deltaville. Hosted by Stingray The Leukemia & Lymphoma Chesapeake Bay. Point Marina and sponsored by Stingray Society is the world’s largest voluntary Harbour and Fishing Bay Yacht clubs, health agency dedicated to blood cancer. regatta participants sailed in honor of one of The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, ********************* their own, Skipper Rob Whittet. lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, Whittet, aboard Wavelength, was and improve the quality of life of patients among nearly 70 boats participating in the and their families. LLS funds lifesaving Please email letters to the editor, regatta. Together they have raised more blood cancer research around the world and including your full name and address, than $106,000 and collected more than provides free information and support to [email protected]. $26,000 in in-kind donations thus far to services. The Leukemia & Lymphoma help The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Society’s Leukemia Cup Regatta is one of Mailing address: (LLS) fund research to find better therapies the ways to help blood cancer patients and The Virginia Sportsman and improve the lives of patients and their their families. Visit www.leukemiacup.org P.O. Box 8376 families. Each sailor was eligible to win to learn more about the regatta, or to learn Charlottesville, VA 22906 prizes, including the opportunity to race at about LLS, visit www.lls.org. the 2013 Fantasy Sail in Captiva, Florida, 7 The Virginia Sportsman Oct/Nov 2013 CONTENTS 9 Argentina: Wingshooting at San Ambrosio Estancia Story by Henry Baskerville Photos by Matthew King 13 Beneteau Barracuda 9: The Swiss Army Knife of Boats by Joan Wenner 17 National Cutting Horse Association World Championship Futurity Story and Photos by Joe Moran 21 Novice Triumphs in Collegiate Fly-Fishing Tournament Story by Sherri Tombarge Photos by Kevin Remington 25 Taking the Plunge: New River Gorge by J.