Mid-West Walking Horse Sale climaxed the years activity with good results.
ABOUT THE VOICE
1966 was a record year for every phase of activity for the VOICE Publishing Company. We broke the 6,000 mark for subscribers in September, giving us more total paid subscriptions than any other publication in our catagory. Advertising linage was also at an all time high for the VOICE in 1966. Thanks to you! It cost us a lot more to produce your twelve issues this year than ever before, partly due to the additional magazines we had to print to supply new subscriptions and partly due to a general increase in expenses and overhead in the printing business.
Due to these higher costs in the printing business we had considered an increase in advertising rates which would have put us on a par with our competitors. An increase in volume of advertising could make up the difference so we decided to hold our rates as they are. A full page in the VOICE will cost $ 150( Approximately 6,200 subscribers). A full page in either of the other magazines costs SI80 plus plate charges and their coverage is about 5,900 for one and 3,750 for the other. Subscription rates for the other magazines are $ 8.00 per year. Ours will remain at $ 6.00. We feel the VOICE is a pretty good bargain.
We have had to add to our staff in order to serve your needs in 1966. Starting in January we will have a new full time Associated Editor. Mr. David Howard, who has worked for us during the summer for the past two years, will take over some of our duties the first of the year. This will enable us to cover more territory and see more people. That about does it for the VOICE. \ our continued support will be greatly appreciated again next year.
WALKING HORSES IN TEXAS
By Edith Puckett Tyler, Texas
The show season is just about over and while most of
us are glad of a breather, we’ re looking around at some of next year’ s prospects: The two little EAKIN girls,
KERRY and CONNIE SUE, are going to be great competition in the juvenile classes next year. These tvyo have come a long way in the short time they’ ve been riding and showing walking horses. CONNIE on her black Ptomaine and KERRY on Gloria’ s Valentine are a genuine pleasure
to watch and both are such good sports.
In Kilgore, Texas, at Horn Stables, Julia has some good prospects for next year. Julia is working Tel Star, a black coming four-year-old, for JIM BRENT of Longview, and did quite well with him in the 1966 show season. Gypsy’ s Raider, a white gelding owned by Mr. and Mrs.
ERNEST PICKLE of Tyler, promises to be an excellent juvenile horse. MR. PICKLE is also the owner of Sun s
Mahogany, standing at stud at Horn Stables, and has a huge portrait of him by ERNEST GRAY hanging m his
barber shop. It’ s hard to tell if ERNEST PICKLE is more proud of the picture or Mahogany himself.
At the Celebration JOHN SHARP of Garland, Texas,
saw a 9-year-old chestnut stallion, Rising Sun C. C., and liked him so much he bought him and brought him back to his Pecan Hill Stables. He has perfect conformation. excellent blood lines, a great disposition and his beautiful color earned him the nickname Copper. He is by My Midnight Traveler, by Midnight Sun, and out of Broadway Rose by Wilson Allen, Jr., out of Lacy Rebe and by Last Chance. Mr. SHARP bought this horse primarily for breeding but will also show him when time out from the breeding schedule permits. After owning him only two weeks, MR. SHARP showed the horse for the first time in Dallas to third in the Amateur Stallion and Gelding, and to a third in the Championship Stake. Also at home at Pecan Hill Stables is the big black mare, Mac K’ s Fair Warning. The honors of showing her are equally divided between MR. SHARP and grandson JOHN SEABOURN. MRS. SHARP is the owner of this great campaigner and is one of her most loyal fans. They showed Fair Warning heavily and very successfully in 1964 and 1965, so she was due for a long rest this past winter. After about three weeks work, JOHN SEABOURN showed her in the Dallas West Kiwanis Club show to tie second. He again showed her to a second in Marshall. MR. SHARP then took her to the Vivian, Louisiana show for a third in the mare class, and fifth in the Stake. She won the stake in Garland, and so on through the entire show season. Plans are now for her to be bred to Rising Sun C. C. this Spring.
MR. GLEN LOE and V. R. BRAWLEY of Tullos, Louisiana, are among my favorite horse people! Just before a show in Tyler recently I wrote MR. LOE a note and asked him to come and bring some horses. After showing in Jackson, Miss., on Friday night, he and MR. BRAWLEY drove to Tyler in time to show Saturday night. The result? Four horses showed— two firsts and two seconds won!
BECKY GANDY, now in school in Nacogdoches, is another rider who will go most anywhere, anytime to show and give a good accounting of herself. She and her parents, MR. and MRS. ELGIN GANDY, came from Ft. Worth to a show in Tyler in September and BECKY took the blue on Sun’ s Rhythm Rambler in the open walking horse class. BECKY writes me that she has been to Vidor, Texas, twice lately to ride her mare in training with BILL MOORE and reports that BILL is working a barn full of horses.
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yearling, THE WINGED PRINCESS, by a son of WING COMMANDER was fifth for Duane in the World’ s Championship Yearling Stake for Saddle Bred Foals of 1965.
It was so good to see our friends that we met at Joe Webb’ s Camp last summer. Nell Webb and Joe, Jane Rowland of Bartlesville, Okla. Bob Pylon, and others. Jane made a beautiful ride in the Ladies Walking Horse class Wednesday afternoon getting third with her SHA DOW’ S G. MAN. Joe Webb, of course, did very well on THE ENTERTAINER, winning the blue in the Junior Stake. SENOR PERFECTION took second for him on Thursday in the Two Year Old class. DOCTORS REME DY placed fourth in the Championship Stake on Saturday night and had taken second in the Stallion and Gelding class on Wednesday night.
Another horse from the Joe Webb Stable, which is a particular favorite of mine, doing a good job and placing third was PERFECTION’ S PIONEER, in a hotly contested Amateur class with his owner Frosty Castleberry riding.
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