1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 October Voice | Page 28

October, 1962
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Yearling Brings Record $4,200 At Murray Sale
Records for Tennessee Walking
Horse yearling prices at public auc­
tion were smashed with a S-1,200 bid
registered Thursday, Oct. 11 at the
Murray Farm Sale staged by Wise &
Warren Stables of Lewisburg, Tenn.
Officials said the bid was made by
Robert H. Lockle, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
for Go Boy’s Skylark, sold by H. W.
Brown of Rt. 5, Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn. This yearling won the
World's Championship at the 1962
Celebration in Shelbyville, also took
first in its class at the Breeders' Assn.
National Futurity and was pictured
twice in the Sept, issue of the Voice— Nodding Star and Jacqueline by
along with Steve Beech, who showed Merry Sal.
Highest price for an aged horse at
the colt for Owner Blown.
Second highest yearling price at the the auction was paid by Claude
auction was $2,150 paid for Go Boy’s Brown of Moorehead, Ky., for Pleas­
Jacqueline, sold by S. W. Beech, Jr., ure's Merry Boy, sold by the estate of
Belfast, Tenn., and Sheriff Clyde the late Dr. Charles Brown of Joplin,
Orton, Carruthersville, 111. The buyer Mo. Officials said the sale was most
teas Dr. W. H. Andersen of Decatur, successful. It lasted two days with
Ala. Jacqueline won weanling honors almost 400 horses sold.
at the Futurity in 1961 and filly cham­
pion in the Futurity this year, pic­
tured in the Sept. Voice with S. W. COMEBACK STAR
Beech, Jr., Ann Ellington and James
Hawkins. Skylark was foaled by
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Ben A. Green, Shelbyville, Tenn.
Neal II ran scum b, 32-year-old trainer at
the Troy G. Arnold Stables, Decherd,
Tenn., qualifies as the “comeback trainer
of the year” at the 1962 Celebration. In
1961 he did not ride a single entry—as
Society Playboy became ill shortly before
the Celebration. In 1962 he rode Society
Playboy to fourth place in the Grand
Championship Stake. Neal also rode Sun’s
Delight to reserve junior championship
(second place) for A. S. Dean of Chris­
tiana, Tenn. in the three-year-old stake.
Neal was the sixth child in an Arkansas
family of 13 children, his father being a
cotton farmer near Blytheville. He started
working with Tennessee Walking Horses
as an eighth grader in school, served four
years in the U.S. Army including 16
months in Korea, at one time worked at
Vic Thompson’s Stables at Shelbyville,
has been training at Arnold’s for several
years. His P. O. Box is 329. Winchester,
Tenn.