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Twenty-eight horses are keeping CHARLIE MUL LINS busy this winter. He has several two-year-olds which look real good and is hoping to start showing early with a trip to New York in late March.
Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH CIGNETTO have a real pretty bay three-year-old with Charlie. Mr. and Mrs. Cignetto are also the proud owners of the well-known mare, Hi Hat’ s Shady Lady. This mare is presently in training with DICKIE PATE.
Mr. and Mrs. JOHN CORBETT and their daughter BARBARA are well pleased with the way Sure to Go is working. Barbara did quite well last year and feels sure that this year will be even better. We will have more about Charlie’ s horses next month.
Midnite Southern Aire is standing at Oak Lane Farm and gives my father three perfect gaits wearing only keg shoes! This year we have our first two Southern Aire colts. Sun’ s Ebony presented us with a sorrel stud colt, her first since her retirement from a successful show career. Moonlite Melody also has a beautiful black colt by her side.
Daddy has Hi Hat’ s Gigi working better than ever. We might show her in the early spring shows even though she is in foal to Midnite Southern Aire. There is plenty going on up here as everyone is getting ready for the shows. I have spring fever already! I enjoyed hearing from you all and hope that I will have more news for next month.
WALLEN STABLES
Sheridan Hall Annville, Pennsylvania
From Sioux City, Iowa, comes news of the Wallen Stables that is a pleasure to report. Trainer DICK WALLEN, who is primarily a gaited horse trainer, and a very successful one, at that, also has Tennessee Walking Horses that follow his successful pattern. Allen Peacock W, a champion owned and ridden by Dick, took up the victory path at the Denver National Livestock Society Horse Show to win both the open and stake classes. Showing true to the traditional Walking Horse form, this horse captured the High Point Award of both the ISHA and the CBWHA in his class by winning a total of 31 Blues in 1965. Wallen’ s Junior horse, Peacock’ s Shadow, also appears destined for greatness following his Denver showing. Only in training a short while, this flashy horse won the Junior Class, the Amateur Class with another rider up, and came back to tie third in the big stake with DARREL Wallen up.
It is indeed a pleasure to see that both Walking Horses and Gaited Horses can be effectively trained and exhibited out of the same stable. Congratulations, Dick!
JIM BABB TAKES OVER MANAGEMENT OF RED BRIDGE STABLES
In a major move of interest to Mid-West Walking Horse enthusiasts, Dr. RALPH E. BANEY, owner of a growing Kansas City Walking Horse operation, recently announced that Mr JIM BABB would take over as General Manager and Trainer for the Red Bridge Stables on April 1.
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TARHEEL REVIEW by Elaine and Harold Thacker Rt. 5, Winston-Salem, N. C.
One Sunday afternoon in early January we visited the Stanfield Walking Horse Stables. The manager and trainer of the Stanfield Stables in Creedmoor, North Carolina, is Mr. JERRY DERRYBERRY, of Kingston, Tennessee. In Kingston he operated his own training bam until March, 1965, when he came to North Carolina. The barn in which Jerry trains is 250 feet long and has 22 stalls. It is owned by Mr. and Mrs. O. B. STANFIELD, Creedmoor.
One of the most talked-about yearlings at the Celebration is owned by the Stanfields. This black stallion is Sun’ s Black Shadow. He was purchased by Mr. Stanfield at the 1965 Harlinsdale Sale. Jerry already has the colt hitting a good show lick. He will surely be the two-year-old to watch in the 1S66 season.
The Stanfields also own one of the top show stallions in the country, Talk’ s Return. He is a full brother to Talk of the Town, a three-time World’ s Champion. Just one of the many ribbons that Jerry and Talk received this season was at the Carolina Holiday Horse Show held Thanksgiving weekend. Jerry and Talk won the Stallion Class in an outstanding way. Talk’ 8 Return has proven himself to be a very good sire as well as a show horse. One of his colts is Talk’ s Shadow, a beautiful sorrel stallion. Another is Talk’ s Lady Bird, a black two-year-old filly. Both Shadow and Lady Bird are owned by Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield. Mrs. Stanfield also owns a very nice, well-mannered four-year-old mare. This mare, known as Fascination, is a very good amateur horse.
Sun’ s Handy Man, a mighty fine bay stallion with plenty of motion and stamina, is owned by Mr. Stanfield. Handy Man is only five. He will surely be one of the top show horses in the Carolina-Virginia Circuit in the coming season.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield also own the top three-yearold filly in the Carolinas today: Sun’ s Miss America, a beautiful black roan. Miss America and Jerry won the Martinsville, Virginia, Championship Three-Year- Old Class. This fine filly also won the Junior Mare Class at the Carolina Celebration held in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sun’ s Miss America and Jerry are ready to tear up the aged mare classes in the 1966 season.
Mr. Stanfield told us just after we arrived that he had recently purchased a very nice liver chestnut stallion from Mr. EMERY WATSON of Leaksville, North Carolina. We didn’ t get to see him work, but judging from his powerful build and his looks, he should be great. His name is All Southern Allen- watch for him.
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