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BIT O’ HEAVEN STABLES
The new Bit O’ Heaven Stables in Prospect, Kentucky, is everything that the name implies. The owner, Mr. ROBERT B. HENSLEY, has built a 316-foot-long show bam with twenty-two modem stalls. JIMMY COLLINS, who was formerly with The Solitude Stock Farm in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, has taken over as manager-trainer.
Jimmy is working The Privateer, a three-year-old chestnut stallion wiio is a full brother to Mack K’ s Big Story, that is ready for the show gates. He is also working The Majorette, a five-year-old black mare that is also ready to show. He is working Sun’ s Contender, a black Midnight Sun gelding that will be shown in amateur and juvenile classes by the Hensleys. He says he has room for several select board horses.
Visitors are always welcome. The stable is located just 15 miles northeast of dowmtown Louisville on US 42. The telephone number is( 502) 228-8265.
TUCAHOE FARM
Dr. and Mrs. ROY F. HARMON, JR., of Houston, Mississippi, recently visited the Porter Rodgers Farm in Searcy, Arkansas. Through JOE WEBB they purchased several outstanding brood mares. Among these mares are such noted individuals as the dam of Perfection Shadow S( the champion mare shown by JIMMY WADDELL the past two seasons), a mare by Midnight Mac K and out of Mary Martha, a Shadow mare out of a full sister to Cotton Picking Mac, and Shadow’ s Celebrity, a former show mare. These mares were tranported to Plouston, Mississippi, where Dr. and Mrs. Harmon are currently constructing a new Walking Horse barn for mares and colts. Dr. and Mrs Harmon also own the well-known Perfection’ s Hilltopper, a junior stallion shown by RICH ARD PATE.
LANDRUM STABLES
Owner W. D.( BILL) LANDRUM and trainer BOB BY HOLLEY, formerly of Giles County, Tennessee, near Pulaski are both working hard to put this new stable on the map. As a high school student, Bobby worked and showed Tennessee Walking Horses and, after four years of military service, started training professionally.
The barn, located in Griffin, Georgia, is 185 feet long, with 28 stalls, 30 feet of lounge and tack room, groom rack, and automatic walker. The stalls are on either side of a twenty-foot-wide hall which gives Bobby a good area to work the horses when the weather keeps him inside. But when the weather permits, he works the horses on the outside, as the bam is surrounded by 200 acres of fenced pasture allowing plenty of space for training.
They still have stalls available for a few more outside horses and hope to fill them with horses for training and working by late spring. Anyone interested may contact them at 228-1637 in Griffin.
The Landrums have just bought the buckskin pony, Trouble Again, for their son DAVID, 13. Trouble has placed at the Celebration three times and tied in the money at the 1964 Montgomery, Alabama, horse show. Bobby says Trouble is working: real well and will hit the upcoming Georgia ShO? v Circuit: for a successful season. David: captured the E. P. Riley Challenge Trophy in October of 1965 at the North Georgia Walking Horse Annual Classic, held at Chatsworth,. Georgia, on an aged pony. He will again bid for this victory showing Trouble Again. Also in the
bam is a black two-year-old Society colt that is doing very well This colt is from Thomaston, Georgia. Another up-and-coming two-year-old is a sorrel Shadow colt " walking a hole in the ground.” Bobby is training a beautiful two-year-old Go Boy filly who inherited all the Go Boy traits. They have an aged Midnight Sun mare, a former Celebration winner, Midnight Darling L. A big black three-year-old stallion really doing all three gaits to perfection is The Sun’ s Sure Shot, owned by a resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bobby is working two aged stallions that are making a strong bid for the winner’ s circle this show season.
The Landrum Stables is a family affair, as all of them ride and show. Eight-year-old KAYE is the proud owner of a beautiful sorrel colt, Shadow’ s Society Boy, a pony that will be heard from. One person we can’ t fail to mention is Bill’ s father, J. W. Landrum or, as he is better known to all, " Pop-Joe.” He claims to be head groom, but he really looks after them all. Without him, his approval, his criticisms, and especially his last-minute instructions, the Landrums would all feel helpless.
EDITOR’ S NOTE: The report on the following five stables in the Scottsville. Kentucky, area was sent in by our good friend BOB KRABBENHOFT. Thanks, Bob!
THOMPSON STABLES
Mr. JOHN THOMPSON of Edmonton, Kentucky, has one of the finest training bams to be found. This is a relatively new barn and was constructed about two years ago. CARL YOUNG and his son, JACKIE, have been doing the training for Mr. Thompson since this barn was opened. At the present time, Carl and Jackie are working some very good two-year-olds, and the list is headed by a Midnight Sun stud colt which Mr. Thompson purchased at the Harlinsdale Sale, closely followed by another good Midnight Sun stud colt owned by Mr. DAVID BAILEY of Glasgow,
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