Mid-West Walking Horse Sale climaxed the years activity with good results .
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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 .
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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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