1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 June Voice | Page 17

Bits & Spurs
E. L. BURGESS of Sherrill, Arkan­
sas has a good string of show horses
this season. Highlighting the barn is
a three-year-old sorrel stallion with
a lot of promise. Bama Go Girl is a
three-year-old mare by Merry Go
Boy. Go Girl has already scored one
blue— the Junior class in Fort Worth.
Under trainer RAY BENNETT’S
skillful hands, the two-year-old
granddaughter of Silver Sultan is
making terrific progress. Ray is
working several other prospective
two-year-olds, including some by
Perfection, Jet Parade, and Go Boy’s
Shadow. Mr. Burgess should have
a nice crop of colts this summer, as
he has five mares bred to Go Boy,
and two to Midnight Mack K. One of
them is an old Midnight Sun mare
with seventeen foundation sires in
her pedigree.
JOHN STROUD is working an out­
standing two-year-old black filly by
my horse, Shadow’s Replica. Her
owners have already turned down
quite a lot of money for her. This
filly is fine as a deer, and has speed
and stride to spare.
By Sharon Terry
Box 1178
Slate College, Miss.
Mother and Dad recently made a
trip to JOE WEBB’s bam in Searcy,
Arkansas. Joe has a barn full of good
two-year-olds, including the Great
Contender by Perfection and out of
a Midnight Sun mare. This colt, own­
ed by Dr. RODGERS, has a tremen­
dous lick with lots of speed. Another
Perfection two-year-old is Big Red,
owned by JERRY COLE. Big Red
is a big handsome colt who looks
every inch a champion. A top two-
year-old mare is a sorrel filly owned
by Mrs. CEBURN LEE. Joe is work­
ing a sharp-looking black three-year-
old stallion, Merry Boy’s Big Booger,
for Mr. and Mrs. RONNY GABLE of
Osceola, Arkansas. Joe’s pride and
joy is a black two-year-old colt with a
catchy name, The Entertainer. Own­
ed by RODGERS, BINNS, RANEY
and WEBB, this colt has everything:
looks, style, and motion. Mother and
Dad saw Carbon Copy at the same
age, and they say that this colt is a
better two-year-old than Copy was.
This may be hard to believe, but it’s
true. He should be quite a horse.
June, 1965
News from Brownsville, Tennessee
way says that JIMMY WADDELL
is sitting on ready for the 1965 show
season. Jimmy has his sensational
three-year-old mare, Perfection’s
Shadow S., in top form for Mr. PAR­
NELL. Go Boy’s Black Jack looks
better than ever. Lady Godiva is
right and ready for Mrs. PARNELL
in all of the Ladies’ Classes.
PORTER NORMAN has just
bought a top stake horse by JetPar-
ade from BUD DUNN. . .DOUG
WOLA VER’s three-year-old mare is
looking mighty fine. . .Handshaker’s
colts are working good. . .JIMMY
HOLLOWAY has a chestnut stallion
stake horse called Royal Flush for
CHARLIE MADDOX. . .and JAMES
K. TAYLOR is taking one blue right
after another on Moonglow Jr.
MARVIN WILSON and my geld­
ing, Sun’s Dark Demon, won the
Stallion and Gelding Class at 'Gun­
ters ville,
Alabama. GRAHAM
B RAM LETT of Clarksdale has a
good mare called Moon Maid with
Marvin. Dr. ANDERSON’S walking
pony really looks good these days.
Stormy Weather, Daddy’s roan stal­
lion, will be a hot contender in the
Open and Amateur classes this sum­
mer. ------ That’s about all the news
for this month. Exams are coming up
and I’ve got to study!
MICHIGAN
WALKING HORSE
NEWS
The April meeting of the Walking
Horse Club, Inc. met in Galesburg
last month with a good turn-out of
members, and a very interesting
talk was given by DUANE FANK-
HAUSER of Few Acres Stables, Ot­
sego. Mr. Fankhauser’s talk was on
the preparation and grooming of the
horse for show. The Fankhausers
have a very nice new stable with a
wonderful indoor working area and
they have done a good job training
Mrs. FRANCES MILLER’S pleasure
horse, Merry Music Maker, for show­
ing this season. Frances got second
place with him at the Kal-Val show
recently.
There are several new horses in
the area this season. A newcomer to
the Michigan Walking Horse circuit
is CARL HOBBS of Benton Harbor.
He has recently purchased from the
south a fine young gelding called Go
Boy’s Angel H. He did very well at
his first show at Kal-Val, taking the
three-year-old class and third in the
Amateur class.
Dr. and Mrs. J. R. JONES ofWalk-
away Farms, Manchester are show­
ing two new geldings. GENE’S is
Walkaway’s Shadow, a beautiful bay,
and BOB’s is a gorgeous dark chest­
nut Mack K colt, called Mack K’s
Rambler.
Mr. and Mrs. STERLING CURTIS
of Swartz Creek both have new
mounts to show this season. Have
not had the opportunity yet to see
them, but believe they are both by
Midnight Sun, and are supposed to
be very good.
Another newcomer, at least to the
Kal-Val show, was a beautiful black
mare called Perfection’s Velvet
owned by MARVIN RICHARDS of
Battle Creek. JOYCE showed her in
the Pleasure class for her father.
Marvin’s son, STANLEY, showed
Sun’s Easter Parade in the three-
year-old class and got third. Both
are very nice horses.
PAIGE and MARY EMMONS can
be very proud of their young daugh­
ter, PAULA. She is the rider of
Paige’s good gelding Dixie Defender.
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