“ Shucks, one more won’ t hurt you, you wouldn’ t miss her.” If I’ d been that way, I wouldn’ t have any good ones today. If I make up my mind that a certain twenty fillies are going to replace twenty old mares, money does not influence me. What is money compared to what a good brood-mare can produce for you in fifteen or twenty years? In breeding horses you have to make up your mind what you’ re going to do, then don’ t let anybody change your mind.
Q. How do you expect the horse business to shape up in the future?
A. That’ s a hard question to answer. I say that folks who do not follow the popular demand are in a lot of trouble. Some say the market is bad. I can’ t say that. I’ ll have to say that in the past ten or fifteen years we have oversold a lot of horses. We’ ve sold them for three times what they’ re actually worth. It is going to be hard for a lot of folks to readjust themselves to what their horses actually are worth. A horse is worth only what the next man will pay for him. A bushel of wheat may have a value all over the world. Or a pound of beef. Seventy-five per cent of the people who have a horse actually don’ t need one, but they like them... it’ s recreation. The better horse they can afford the better horse they want. The demand for the better horse has increased and is steadily increasing. But the average horse, from there on down, is going to be almost impossible to move at prices like those in the past. I don’ t find much place for the cheap horse. They raise more of those than the good ones. The higher you get anything bred— horse, people or cattle— the harder it is to produce. It is easy to go backward.
It’ s harder to go forward. When you produce anything that is better, there will be a market for it.
We have included this article in the Pre-Celebration issue because so many of you will be in Middle Tennessee during the show to buy and to sell horses. We hope it has given you some constructive thoughts regarding your own horse activity.
Tennessee State Colt Show Scheduled for August 22
The second annual Tennessee State Colt Show is shaping up as a top attraction just prior to the 1967 Celebration. This year’ s show will be held on Tuesday, August 22
at the Grantland Rice Park in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Last year’ s first edition of the show was a big success and the same planning and hard work that made it go will no doubt make its mark on this year’ s event.
Dr. Bob Womack, president of the Tennessee State Colt Show Association, expects 140 entries in the Futurity while the open class is hard to predict. However, it is expected to outdraw last year’ s classes because of an increase in prize money. The total money offered this year is $ 6000, almost double last year’ s total of $ 3500.
This year’ s show will feature 11 classes with two championship classes, one for weanlings and one for yearlings, which both futurity and open contenders may enter. There will be ten ties in each class.
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FOR ENTRY BLANKS, CONTACT: Mrs. Barbara Wiggins Murray Farm Box 425 Lewisburg, Tennessee
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