1966-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1966 December Voice | Page 16

Marvin Wilson
Escuc Walking Horse Stables in Hebron, Kentucky, is
touting their new trainer, Mr. Marvin Wilson. Marvin is
one of the more experienced professional trainers in the
business and has trained at some of the finest stables in
the country. For the present, he will be working only those
horses belonging to Mr. Fray Escue and his family. Marvin
will have his hands full with nine coming-two colts, (five
studs and four fillies) all by SUN’S DELIGHT and de­
scribed b yMr. Escue as being “the pick of the litter
by his World Champion for 1966 Yearlings. They arc
really great.
Marvin is especially pleased to be working DE1-
LIGHT’S PLAYBOY, a black two year old stud that
should be tops. He will also be working with Nancy Escue
and SHADOW’S JET, her Champion Walking Pony, and
with Fray and SUNDUST MERRY BOY, his Amateur
Gelding. MEET MIDNIGHT MERRY and THE
BLACK WIDOW will also be under saddle with Marvin.
We should be hearing a lot about Escuc Stables in the
future.
Steve Hill Stables
Making a quick recovery from his untimely fall on
GO BOY’S ROYAL HEIR' during the Age Stud Class
at the Celebration, trainer Steve Hill is reported to be
hard at it again. Fie was scheduled to make several of the
Deep South Shows as well as Montgomery Southern
Championship. One of the most talked about three year
olds around was scheduled to make his showring debut
in Baton Rouge with Steve Hill riding. This is the black
MIDNIGHT SUN stud colt that reportedly sold for
$50,000 and is now owned by Dr. R. W. Raton. Steve has
him just about right now' and should give the boys some­
thing to talk about with him.
Steve is working ROYAL HEIR again and should
continue his winning ways w'ith this outstanding Aged
Stallion.
Joe Martin
Joe Martin and his wife Judy Wiser Martin have re­
cently announced their move back to Middle Tennessee.
They have taken over the old Patent Leather Farms prop-
rty near Wartrace and have turned it into a Walking
Horse Stable. It was formerly a Gaited Horse operation.
Both Joe and Judy have considerable experience in the
Walking Horse business and despite being young in the
professional ranks, are highly respected by their associates.
Their return to this part of the country has been well re­
ceived and they announce that they have had a number
of top horses offered for training and many good coming
two year olds for them to start. It is always hard to open
a new stable but these two young people should make a
fine contribution to the business in Middle Tennessee.
Groover and Black
Just a note on the recent purchase"of a real top con­
tender by Mr. Wink Groover and Mr. Buddy Black. The
horse in question is a 2 year old black stallion that Wink
had in training for Mr. Roy Davis. Wink believes this
horse is “the one I have been looking for” and did enough
of a selling job on Mr. Black to get him to purchase half
of him. From all reports, he is “one of them things’’ . . .
as they say. More about this colt and the Wink Groover
Stables later.
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Harold Kennedy
News recently came to us that Mr. Harold Kennedy
changed locations right after the Celebration. He moved
from the Bel Aire Stables in Calhoun. Georgia, to Manor
House Farms in Pulaski. Tennessee. Harold, who has
wrorked with some of the best stock in the Walking Horse
business, will be working with both the aged horses and
the yearlings of Mr. B. Earl Puckett, who owns the farms
located adjacent to the famous Milky Way Farms. Look
fonvard to Flarold Kennedy coming out next year with
some top horses for Manor House Farms.
Harber and Cherry
Good Buddy Bob Cherry keeps us posted about his
activity and it appears that he is hard at -work on some
hand-picked young stock. MIDNIGHT TYCOON, own­
ed by fames Rowland of Murfreesboro, heads the list.
This stud colt is by MIDNIGHT SUN out of a LAST
CHANCE mare and reportedly brought a record price
as a colt. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Colvin and daughter
Connie of Columbus, also have a good one by the name
of MIDNIGHT CELEBRATION! They purchased this
filly from Louis T. Bowies and is reported to be ex­
ceptional. Bob also has seven other fine coming two colts
in training. Fie is particularly proud of an EBONY colt
that is a full brother to the good filly he showed last
year, owned by L. M. Harper of Springfield.
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Harber & Cherry Stables will be standing HILLS
MERRY GO BOY next season and should do a lot.o
business with him. This, plus a full load of training
horses, should keep Mr. Cherry busy.
Port Orange Stables
Orange and Blue seem to go together very well as the
Port Orange Stables launches their 1967 program. Own-
loer en Metz§er and Gottlob Koenig wound up »»
TUDT?A^Vlties with the official retirement of TRlpL
TDTm p ^°^owcc^ by a most impressive victory oi
RIPLE THREAT AGAIN at Montgomery with D -
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