1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 April Voice | Page 13

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JOHN PRICE STABLES
Always an interesting visit,
the JOHN PRICE Stables in
Jasper, Tennessee produces
some of the finest Walking
Horses in this part of the coun­
try. The feature of this active
training and breeding facility
Go Boy’s Security, a top rated
black stallion that has had a full
season for the past two years.
He now has some excellent colts
on the ground as well as some
good age horses that he has
sired.
Trainer Price and Dr. W. H.
ANDERSON of Decatur, Ala­
bama are partners in this oper­
ation. In addition to the many
fine show horses in Jasper, they
have a large band of some ofthe
best brood mare stock in’the
nation on a farm in Decatur. It
is a well-known fact that, to­
gether, John Price and Dr. An­
derson make up one of the most
knowledgable breeding teams in
the Walking Horse business.
They can trace blood lines and
horses back as far as the breed
goes and "know their onions” in
this field.
We saw severed good horses
work and a top two-year-old is a
black stallion named Security’s
Go Boy owned by Dr. Anderson.
This is a cocky show horse stud
that is reported to be the best
horse that John has ever started.
Sundust Glory Boy is a chestnut
two-year-old owned by Price and
Anderson that is also showing
good prospects. BILL TABER of
Dalton, Georgia has a top black
mare in training here. She is by
Go Boy and looks like a winner.
John is also working hard with
Alabama Born and Sue’s Shad­
ow, a pair of three-year-olds that
were shown last year. Both have
taken their canter well and are
in excellent shape. My Ebony
Star, a black three-year-old stud
that was held out last year, is
reported to be a top prospect.
He is a half-brother to Go Boy’s
Crimson Tide, the age stallion
that is now in training at WINK
GROOVER’S. In the age classes,
John will be showing Sun Dust
Maid, a big going mare thatwas
shown to some top blues last
year. She is reported to be in
excellent shape and is consider­
ably better than she was last
season.
A note of interest is the news
that John’s previous Assistant
Trainer, MACKEY MOTES, is
now full-time trainer for Mr.
HOWARD UTTER, Akron, Indi­
ana. We will have more informa­
tion on this later.
BELL & HOLLAND STABLES
DON BELL and TADY HOL­
LAND are putting in a busy day
at their newly-established train­
ing operation at the Arnold
Farms, Winchester, Tennessee.
Busy with the various activities
of working the twelve horses now
in training, both Tady and Don
are trying hard to get the stable
facilities in good order after be­
ing empty for over a year. They
will soon have the stable full and
should be in full swing shortly.
At the present, these young
trainers are working some good
stock, including Jet’s Merry Boy,
a chestnut stud owned by RAY
BECKLER. This age stallion
should be ready to enter the
show ring when the gates open
for the first spring show. They
are also working a Handshaker
three-year-old stud colt that
shows great promise. One of the
best two-year-old fillies we have
seen this year is Piddley’s Black
Magic, a black owned by JIMMY
HANNAH. This little gal is a
"natural” and takes that first
step like she knows where she is
going. Tady has been working
her slow and easy, and it is pay­
ing off. She will be one to watch
for! We were also very much
impressed with a "green broke”
stud colt owned by Ray Beckler.
This is a dark roan that has the
looks of a true show horse. He is
built right, close coupled, with a
short back and high neck. If
"hunting boogers” and alertness
will get the job done, this colt
should go a long way as a show
horse.
M c F arland
stables
A brief stop at the McFarland
Stables in Murfreesboro gave us
reason to believe that we will
hear a lot from this operation
during the 1965 show season.
JIMMY McFARLAND and SYL­
VESTER SHIERKOWSKI, as­
sisted by WILLIAM SNEED,
have twenty head of horses that
they are now working, including
12 two-year-olds. In this class,
they have several that are show­
ing good promise including a bay
stud owned by FRED JONES, a
bay Go Boy filly owned by HEW-
IE KING of Murfreesboro, and a
black Go Boy filly owned by MAC
CARTER. They are also pleased
with a Jet Parade stud colt own­
ed by Jimmy McFarland and VIC
THOMPSON. Jimmy is busy
working Go Boy’s Space Man, a
top rated Junior horse owned by
ELVIS LOWE of Christana, Ten­
nessee and Headshaker, a black
age pony owned by Fred Jones
of Murfreesboro and HUGH GIL­
LUM, Westmorland, Tennessee.
LEECH STABLES
Winding our way through the
beautiful country west of Win­
chester, we found our way to the
stables of J. T. and MARIANNE
LEECH. Famous as the old home
place of Mr. AUBURN GRAY,
the Leech Stables boast some of
the truly top horses in the nation.
There are many outstanding
horses stabled here, but the two
that have people talking at the
present time are Royal Mustang
and Miss Majurette. The Mus­
tang is a junior stud horse that
was held out last year for more
training. He is rated as a top
prospect for 1965 and from what
we saw, he is. This horse is a
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