Descendants of Andrew Gawn, Halftown, Co. Antrim:
Born 1777
| MR. J. WARWICK
AGAIN TAKING TEAM TO AMERICA, BUT NOT NEW YORK THIS TIME HIS MOUNTAIN FARM FIND Mr. John Warwick, the well-known Belfast owner and exhibitor, of jumping horses, has decided to revisit America this autumn for another try at international honours. He will enter no horse for the Westchester Cup after last year's experiences, nor will any of the team which he is taking out jump at events at New York Show. No one will be surprised at his decision to give New York the go by after what happened last year. Many American sportsmen have written strongly disapproving of the flimsy excuses put forward for holding the Westchester Cup and merely sending a photograph of it. All that New York is likely to see of Mr. Warwick's horses this “fall" will be what Mr. Warwick saw of the Westchester Cup—a photograph. The team -which Mr. Warwick will take out, will, as last year, consist of five horses. He hopes to meet and defeat in open competition some of the teams that be encountered before, and show Americans bow jumping can be done by Irish horses. He is confident that the team which is now in training and which will figure in jumping competitions all over the North of Ireland this summer, will prove to be the five best horses that he has ever owned. One of them in particular is described as a marvel. It was picked up quite incidentally on a mountain farm as a likely looking young horse. It had taken to jumping the hedges and ditches where it was brought up just for sheer love of exercise. It has already had a very good schooling with Mr. Warwick, and will be thoroughly polished up in competitions before the autumn. As a high jumper in particular it is in a class by itself. Mr. Warwick says the reason he is going out again is because of the repeated and insistent invitations he has received from many quarters and from leading sports-men, both in the United States and Canada.
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