the HI LINE from the Deep SOUTH
By Billy Joe Ann Estess Box 222, Kentwood, Louisiana
Hi! We arrived home from the Celebration just in time to welcome, if you can call it that, the Hurricane Season. Miss Betsy didn’ t quite do us in, but you can be assured that she did her best to try!
With the Natchez show just days off I am anticipating seeing who-all bought new mounts while in Tennessee. There should be a good turnout, as the Celebration alwaysseems to put back into each of us the drive that long hot summer months of hard work has taken out. And right on the tail of this show is the Brookhaven, Mississippi show the next weekend, then the Mobile show, the Jackson, Miss., State Championship Show, and the Dixie Jubilee. Then on to Montgomery, if by that time you’ re up to it. All these shows are top-notch, so come be with us.
Congratulations go out to all the winners at the Celebration representing the sisterstatesofLouisiana and Mississippi that I am fortunate enough to be a part of. Especially proud am I of Mrs. C. M. WATERS of Alexandria, who won the newlyformed Ladies Amateur Stake Class. Spur’ s Summer Dream and LOU
WATERS did an excellent job. Miss D’ LEESE WILLIAMSON astride her Bomb’ s Bally Hoo showed all you boys a thing or two in the Amateur Championship Stake, too. These two girls work hard at the thing they love most— showing their ' hosses’— and it seems to pay off, doesn’ t it? Space just doesn’ t permit me to tell you of all the loot my Louisianians and Mississippians brought home, but you can be sure of one thing: We got our share! Results of the Seminary, Mississippi show held just before the Celebration will be found in Show Results, and what a mess that was! It rained the entire show and mud got yeadeep a-fore it was over, but all classes were well represented. My Fancy mare took me to the winner’ s circle and 1 was especially happy. A friend told me that my husband commented that every time he had me talked into the notion of breeding Fancy, she won something and that did it for a while. Oh well, the truth of the matter is that Fancy and I know we’ re not the best, but we have a good time teasing our trainer. Bye for now, and I’ ll see ya at the shows!
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At present they have seven Tennessee Walking Horses in training, as well as a good selection of pleasure horses which they rent out to horse lovers on an hourly basis. The current lineup includes: Wilson’ s Sellador, a three-year-old sorrel stud; Go Boy’ s Champ, a six-year-old chestnut gelding with an impressive show ring career; Platinum Panic, a four-year-old white gelding; and Wilson’ s Glenadora, a sorrel stud.
They are just beginning a program of concentration on TennesseeWalking Horses and we hope to hear more from this stable in the future.
LLOYD WOOD STABLES
From Tuscaloosa, Alabama, comes news of importance to all Walking Horse enthusiasts in that part of the country. Mr. PHIL GOODWIN, formerly employed with the Vic Thompson Stables in Shelby ville, has recently gone to work with the Lloyd Wood Stables as head trainer. Phil and his wife, FLO, moved to new quarters three weeks ago and have their work cut out for them in assisting Mr. Wood with a general expansion program. They are going to add sixteen more stalls to the present bam to make a total of thirty-two.
At present, Phil will concentrate on Go Boy’ s Scooter, the 1964 World Champion Amateur Horse that Mr. Wood recently purchased; Go Boy’ s Nodding Star, the outstanding Juvenile horse that BELVA WOOD shows; and a three-year-old mare with plenty of future named Go Boy’ s Silky. Phil says he has a good sorrel two-year-old owned by Dr. and Mrs. NELSON, as well as several good coming-two colts. More on this later!
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