FALL HORSE SHOW SCHEDULED FOR CHATTANOOGA
Climaxing a year of extensive horse show activity in and around the greater Chattanooga area will be the annual Chattanooga Charity Horse Show sponsored by the Circle S Saddle Club. This show will follow the successful pattern set by the Chattanooga Junior League for the past few years and is guaranteed to offer the finest in facilities, money and prizes. The show is scheduled for the Warner Park Field House, site of many indoor horse show events since it was constructed in 1950, and is set up for three days of top horse activity. The dates are October 15, 16 and 17 with shows scheduled to begin at 7:00 p. m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon events scheduled primarily for pleasure horses, equitation and Working Hunter classes. The indoor arena provides the finest turf available and a regulation size ring. Stall accommodations are available for the three day show.
Managing the show will be the renowned Col. James“ Jimmy” Seashole and his experienced horse show team. Col. Seashole is known throughout the Southeast for the many large and successful horse shows that he manages each year. He promises a well organized show with maximum attention paid to exhibitors and their horses. Great care has been taken in planning this show to provide the best classes for all exhibitors and to make this one of the most attractive shows of the season.
Particular attention has been paid to Walking Horse exhibitors and the three day schedule calls for twelve big Walking Horse Classes. Ample classes for professionals, amateurs and pleasure horse exhibitors are in the schedule and top prize money is put up. The Walking Horse Stake will pay six monies from seven hundred fifty dollars with three hundred and twenty dollars going to the blue.
For the first time there will be two judges and a referee in each class. Judges for the 1964 show will be the Hon. Rex Watts of Hudson, North Carolina, Hon. Carl J. Jinkins, Atlanta, Georgia, and Hon. Annie Lawson Cowgill, Milan, Missouri. This group represents an experienced panel of horse experts who should tie Walking Horses without bias and with maximum attention to performance. All are licensed by the American Horse Shows Association.
Added attractions of the show will be an exhibition by the 1964 Worlds Grand Champion Two Year Old Walking Horse, SETTING SUN’ S APOLLO, ridden by trainer Billy Brantley of Battleground Stables, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. APOLLO is owned by Dr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Sliger of Fort Oglethorpe. Also, the famous Circle S Riding Club Mounted Patrol will put on their regular exhibition of precision riding and formation performance. This group has exhibited in many top horse shows in this part of the country and promises to be a well received addition to the Annual Chattanooga Charity Horse Show.
HARLINSDALE FARM SALE SETS NEW RECORDS
One good indication of the tremendous popularity of the Harlinsdale Farm Sale of yearling colts by MIDNIGHT SUN and SUN’ S BIG SHOT is that the management was forced to expand the auction to two days, September 3 and 4, on these dates sixty-two yearlings were sold, eleven were declared“ no sale” at the highest bid, and four were entered in the catalog but were not offered at the sale.
Large and enthusiastic crowds gathered under the big tent both days. There they examined and bid on the, best crop of colts by MID NIGHT SUN and SUN’ S BIG SHOT ever offered at public auction, according to Harlin Hayes, manager of Harlinsdale Farm,“ The uniform and high quality of the colts was amazing. This was undoubtedly the best group of colts ever offered at auction at any time. We are highly pleased that so many people shared our view and backed up their judgments with the highest average bids ever offered in a sale of this kind.”
Forty-six colts by the renowned MIDNIGHT SUN brought $ 99,- 600.00, for an average price of more than $ 2,165.00— more than $ 200.00 per colt higher than in 1963. Sixteen colts by SUN’ S BIG SHOT sold for $ 13,125.00, for an average price of more than $ 820.00. The sixty-two colts that sold totaled $ 112,725.00 for an average price of $ 1,818.00. These premium prices are indicative of the quality of the yearlings offered in this large dispersal sale.
The activities began on a high note as SUN’ S BLACK LABEL, a black stallion by MIDNIGHT SUN out of a GOLD BOND mare, was purchased by Mr. Chester Coon, Oakland, California, for a bid of $ 5,200.00. Near the middle of the first day’ s sale DESIGN OF MID NIGHT was purchased by Mr. Charley Corley, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a bid of $ 5,000.00. Several other excellent colts brought in excess of $ 3,000.00, and two were bid up to $ 4,000.00. At the latter figure, Leeswood Stables, Oak Corners, New York, purchased SUN’ S RED CAP, and Mr. Charley Corley purchased the champion yearling filly( also Champion Walking Yearling), SUN’ S DE LIGHTFUL DISH.
MIDNIGHT MERRY SUSIE, a black filly by MIDNIGHT SUN out of MERRY MARTHA( by MERRY BOY), topped the sale as Mr. Gordon H. Wilder, of Lexington, Kentucky, bid $ 5,350.00 to buy her from Sam Paschal. This filly is ideally bred, and with her conformation and grace should become one of the show-ring greats.
As the following tabulation of the entire sale will show, the descenders of MIDNIGHT SUN continue to be spread all over the nation. Again, the Halinsdale Farm, owned by Mr. A. F. Harlin and Mr. W. W. Harlin, and managed by Mr. Harlin Hayes, has carried on their tradition of operating an auction where one may buy with confidence some of the best of the products of modern breeding.
J2 VOICE of The Tennessee Walking Horse