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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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