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that was trimmed in Christmas wrapping . Lonny and Helen sat down and opened the package . " How nice . . . ” said Helen . Lonny suddenly sobered up and stuck out his hand to Dr . Greely . " Thanks a lot , Doc . 1 think it is one of the best horse pictures I have ever seen . . . really . I do appreciate it .” Lonny stood back apd held up a big full-color action picture of himself on BEAU GENTRY . " Isn ’ t that great ?” he asked the crowd . " That Les Wilson can really take a picture !”
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ALABAMA WALKING ON
by Gail B . Chambers Box 14 Morris , Alabama
I received the nicest letter recently from Dr . B . S . Henry of Pine Tree Farm , Russellville , Alabama . Dr . and Mrs . Henry are the owners of the 1967 World ’ s Grand Champion , GO BOY ’ S SUN DUST . The Henrys left on Tuesday after the Celebration for a trip to
Europe . They visited many horse breeding farms in Ireland and England , most of which featured thoroughbreds , hunters and jumpers . However , they were most flattered that these people knew so much about the Tennessee Walking Horse .
Dr . Henry ’ s letter , in part , read as follows : " To give you a short resume of my family , Mrs . Henry and I have two daughters . The older , Janis , age 21 , has been showing Walking Horses for the past ten years ,
actually having shown GO BOY ’ S SUN DUST several times as a four-year-old and winning the blue ribbon
each time . Janis is at present a junior at the University of Mississippi , and expects to ride her amateur gelding , SUN DUST ’ S THOR , next summer . She has shown this horse several times this past summer and was never tied below fourth .
" We have another stake horse in SUN DUST PER
FECTION , a black stallion being trained and shown by Bud Dunn , that we believe is just about as good
as GO BOY ’ S SUN DUST . We have held him out of competition the past couple of years so that we might concentrate on GO BOY ’ S SUN DUST . However , we plan to push him this next year in the Stake Class .
We have still a third seven-year-old black stallion , GO BOY ’ S BLACK DANDY , who has been trained and shown by George Witt of Athens , Alabama . This horse was World ’ s Champion Two-Year-Old Stallion at the Celebration in 1962 . A series of unfortunate accidents have kept him from showing since then .
" Our younger daughter Gayle ( Coochi ), 16 , is very much interested in horses but does not choose to ride . We have owned Walking Horses for the past 8-10
ye sirs and certainly nothing has given us more family pleasure than traveling to horse shows , particularly
when some of our horses were showing . I highly recommend it as one of the greatest family sports that anyone can participate in .”
I appreciate Dr . Henry ’ s letter , and thought most of you would be interested in it . I might add here that I was glad to see an Alabama trainer , Bud Dunn , given his share of the credit in the VOICE article about GO BOY ’ S SUN DUST . He well deserves a big share of it .
Robert L . Sandlin of Warrior , Alabama has quite a brood mare operation going . MISS MIDNIGHT PROWLER , a nice mare by MIDNIGHT PROWLER , has a yearling filly by MERRY GO BOY and a stud colt by MERRY GO BOY , and is bred back to SUN ’ S DELIGHT . Another nice mare , GYPSY RENOWN , has a two-year-old white stud colt by MERRY MAC W . B ., which is by MACK K ’ S HANDSHAKER . This colt , MACK ’ S GYPSY MAN , is in training with Wayne Luna and is showing very good prospects . GYPSY RENOWN also has an eighteen-month-old filly by
MERRY MAC W . B . and a five-month-old stud colt by HANDSHAKER . Mr . Sandlin has two SETTING SUN
mares , one of which is bred to TRIPLE THREAT . The other foaled recently . A MIDNIGHT SUN mare of his has been bred to SPUR ’ S CLOWN . In addition to his brood mares , Mr . Sandlin also owns SHADOWS TOM CAT , an aged gelding , and SUN DUST SPECIAL , a four-year-old gelding . Both have been shown by Wayne Luna this season . Rob and Kathleen Sandlin also brought back a souvenir from the Celebration this year . They purchased SUN ’ S GOLD LABEL , a fouryear-old stallion . This sorrel roan with flax mane and tail is by MIDNIGHT SUN . A well-bred stallion , he should prove to be a good breeding stallion as well as a show horse . Best of luck to the Sandlins in the horse business . I am sure they will welcome anyone who drops by to see their fine colts .
Season ’ s Greetings
M . L . MAGNUSSON at the OLD MILKY WAY FARM
PULASKI , TENNESSEE
PHONE 363-2739
Remember . . . two major sales a year are held at Milky Way Farms . Come to see us !
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