Bits & Spurs
By SHARON TERRY
I am very sorry to report that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parnell of Newbern, Tennessee, were involved in a terrible accident en route to the West Point show. Mrs. Parnell was not hurt too seriously, but Mr. Parnell received a compressed vertebrae and will have to lie in traction for quite a while. The whole horse show world sympathizes with Mrs. Parnell in the loss of her brother, Mr. Johnson, in this same accident in which Mrs. Johnson and the Johnson’ s eighteen year old daughter were also injured.
At West Point I had a long talk with Dixie Weaver, who is now training in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dixie has a barn full of good horses, including E. L. Burgess’ s roan gelding, SULTAN’ S CLOWN, and COLORADO ANNE, the junior mare. BOMBS AWAY, the good two year old stud owned by Charles Phillips, made an outstanding show to place second in West Point with Dixie up. Brooks Randall is the pleased owner of a two year old SUN DUST colt that Dixie is working. Dixie is especially proud of the black aged stallion, GO BOY’ S BAREN, who won the stallion and gelding class and the stake at Columbiana, Alabama. Barbara Whaley has several horses with Dixie, one of which is her fine amateur mare, SPUR’ S REBEL
QUEEN, who recently won the Carrolton, Alabama show.
A very sweet young lady with a top string of horses this year is Marjorie Gill of Louise, Mississippi. Marjorie’ s pride and joy is her black mare, MAGIC NIGHT, who has won ladies’ classes at West Point, Magee, and Batesville. Under her trainer, Jimmy Holloway, MAGIC NIGHT has also won the stakes at Guntown, Tylertown, and Okolona.
One of the best young riders I’ ve seen in a long time is thirteen year old Donna Day from Jackson, Tennessee. Donna’ s parents bought her the lovely mare CONFEDERATE CAMEO, who was third in the mare class at the Celebration last year. Under the skillful direction of trainer Jimmy Waddell, Donna and CAMEO were third in the Spring Jubilee. CONFEDERATE CAMEO was victorious in the mare class at Lewisburg with Jimmy up.
I have had many inquiries over the matter of a lady or juvenile rider showing a stallion. I do not think a stallion should be barred from Ladies and Juvenile Classes. After all, it is supposedly the horses’ s way of going that is to be judged— not what sex he is. In the split Amateur classes( Ladies and Gentlemen), it is not right for the men to be allowed to show stallions while the ladies cannot. In my opinion, if a lady or juvenile rider can handle a stallion, by all means they should be permitted to show in the classes they choose.
I am proud to announce a new photographer to the horse world. His name is Mr. Robert W. Sharp, and he is from Craig, Alabama. I met Mr. Sharp at West Point, and he is a fine man as well as an excellent photographer. Anyone interested in having Mr. Sharp make action or still photos can contact him at his home in Craig.
Kirk Haynes has a black two year old stallion by MIDNIGHT SUN and out of a MILLERS’ WIL SON ALLEN mare. This Jonestown, Mississippi colt, MIDNIGHT WALKAWAY, has already won blues at Grenada, Charleston, and Nettleton, and will capture many more before the season is over. Dr. Pegram has a truly outstanding two year old colt who won Westpoint; Alan Tidwell of Oxford, Miss., is working for Russell Pate this summer; Curtis Daniels’ good roan mare was second in the mare class at Verona; Blanche Lockard of Meridian won the Waynesboro show and was second in Meridian on her mare SAL U- BAR; Beth Gaillard, also of Meridian, owns a nice looking junior gelding known as SILVER SEN SATION; Gordon Flowers won the Junior Juvenile class in West Point on a fast going bay roan horse; Alan Flowers has been making some extraordinarily good shows on a big roan stallion called SPE CIAL ACE.
MIDNIGHT DARK ANGEL has won the Clarksville, Ark., and Humboldt, Tenn. Ladies’ classes for her happy owner, Mrs. Mary Laidlaw of Memphis, Tenn. This biglick black mare was second in Tipton and Savannah, and third in West Point.
Vic Thompson brought mama’ s BLACK SOUTHERN AIRE down to the Greenville show where he gave an excellent perforance to carry home two blues— the stud and gelding class and the stake. My own SHADOW’ S REPLICA and I won the Amateur stake.
That’ s about all the news I have for this month. Please send any information you have to Box 1032, Cleveland, Mississippi.
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