“ 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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FARM SALE
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WORLD ’ S LARGEST WALKING HORSE SALE
SELL HERE ... BUY HERE ! YOU CANT GO WRONG AT THE MURRAY FARM !
OWNERS : S . W . Beech , Jr .
Lewisburg , Tennessee Pete Yokley
Pulaski , Tennessee
FOR ENTRY BLANKS , CONTACT : Mrs . Barbara Wiggins Murray Farm Box 425 Lewisburg , Tennessee
OCTOBER 11-14 1967
AUGUST , 1967
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