three good gaits and could createtqHT SUN’ S the middle of the year. Watch for MIDi
SHADOW.
SUGARLOAF STABLES
Since their move from Delaware last Su^ >_ loaf Stables of Mr. Randall Rdhns has been rnP cess of getting organized. They moved their complete
operation from Odessa, Delaware to Atlan, and trainer Tommy Howell made the move \. At the present they have leased a fine stable 1
burn, Georgia, located just ten miles south ot Atlanta
near the airport...
Tommy is working eight good horses, ^eluding ETERNAL SUN, EBONY’ S PRINCESS, SETTING
SUN’ S SUNBEAM, MERRY BLUE BOV and bUN b T. N. T. Three of these are Amateur and Juvenile horses and the Rollins children will be going strong again in these classes. Richard, 13 years old, wdl nae SUNBEAM. Ten-year-old Pam will show EBON \ b PRINCESS, and Rita, fourteen years old, will be showing MERRY BLUE BOY.
In mare classes. Tommy Howell will be showing DOLLY BEE. a fine black age mare, and he will also show GO BOY ' S MOONBEAM, a black age gelding. They have plans to locate in or near Atlanta and construct a new training facility sometime soon. Until then, watch for the well-known Sugarloaf Farms van. It will contain some top horses.
HARVEY LEFEVER STABLES
One of the finest fellows we know in the Walking Horse business is Harvey Lefever. He has been training for quite a few years and got into this business full-time only about three years ago. Harvey was originally working with Paul Wiener of Cedartown, Georgia, and two years ago he left to take a full-time training job in Columbus, Georgia. He now has the support he needs and has recently completed a beautiful new stable in Douglasville, Georgia, just twenty miles south of Atlanta. His barn has over twenty-five stalls and they say he has a barn full of fine horses. Watch for Harvey Lefever when the gate opens. He is a man who can make a horse and is about due to upset some of the big ones. More about Harvey later!
JOHN T. CARTER STABLES
Kingsport, Tennessee is becoming a hub of Walking Horse activity, and John T. Carter has done his part to promote the breed in that part of the country. He is still working out of the Robinwood Farms Stables and has 35 head working. His new assistant trainer is well-known in that part of the country and will be doing some riding this year. They are working nine twoyear-olds this year and several are really outstanding. A particularly outstanding colt is a sorrel stud named SUN’ S DELIGHT SURPRISE owned by H. B. Hauk This is a willing, big-lick colt that could be a real contender this year. They also have a SUN’ S DE LIGHT filly that is coming on strong.
John T. recently sold a colt named DELIGHT’ S DE LUSION to Lawn vale Farms of Gainesville, Virginia and Ernest Bugg will be showing him this year for owner E. A. Simpson of Gainesville. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Burgen of Lincolnton, North Carolina have a fine dappled palomino stud colt by SOCIETY MACK K that could be another " Goldfmger.” He is working
12 real well. " Pop” Waggoner owns SUN’ S HEART GOLD a four-year-old sorrel stallion that is ma. Pp
orogress, and the Nelson family of Johnson Citv fc8
a fine black filly by MIDNIGHT SUN out of a SHArf OW mare. They are all excited about a big-g0in named SUN’ S CHAPARRAL This big bay ZllY
the headliner this year for John T. Carter.
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Everyone is also excited about a sorrel stud K SUN’ S GO BOY that is owned by Mr. and Mrs j V
Horton of Bristol, Tennessee. He is a three-yearoin with a beautiful flax mane and tail that most pe0DU say is a top horse. Another good three-year-old 1
chestnut stud owned by Ed Hankins. He is by SUN’ S DELIGHT and should also do well this year.
WAGGONER STAJBLES
While we were at John T. Carter’ s stables we made a quick trip over to " Pop” Waggoner’ s stables to take a look at several of his horses. He has Basil Marrison working some for him and he is doing well with a couple of two-year-olds. A filly named DELIGHT’ S BONNY M. is making fine progress, and DELIGHT’ S DEMON, a big chestnut stud colt, could come on to become a real contender. " Pop,” who lost his World Champion Amateur MACK’ S COUNTRY SQUIRE last fall, will be riding another horse this year. His name is SUN’ S HEART OF GOLD. Watch for them!
TUCAHOE FARMS
PERFECTION’ S SHADOW S. has a baby brother- a stud colt bom March 20 at the Tucahoe Farms of Dr. and Mrs. Roy Harmon, Houston, Mississippi. The solid-black colt was sired by RODGERS PERFECTION and is out of SHADOW’ S GAY GIRL, a GO BOY’ S SHADOW mare. He is a full brother to the fine mare that Jimmy Waddell showed to World Championships as a two-year-old and as a three-year-old. PERFEC TION’ S SHADOW S. was sold as a three-year-old to Molly Babcock Tallent for a good price, and was ridden by Mrs. Tallent to a reserve in the Owner-Amateur Ladies on Mares class at the 1967 Celebration.
Dr. and Mrs. Harmon also have two black yearling fillies by RODGERS PERFECTION that are very promising.
Tucahoe Farms at present is strictly a breeding operation. Although Mrs. Harmon does show, her horses are with " outside” trainers. Dr. Harmon breeds his mares to top studs only. This year he plans to breed
his finest to MERRY GO BOY. Dr. and Mrs. Harmon invite everybody to come see their colts— especially the newest one!
LYNWOOD STABLES
Henry Randall, trainer for Lynwood Stables, Akron, Indiana, is putting his string of horses in top show shape with training and conditioning, and will start the season at the Columbus, Ohio spring show. His patience, even disposition and saddle time are producing some horses in his barn that can match speed and motion with the best. His horses are sound and fresh.
From Lynwood Stables comes a great two-year-oki
wU £ lM, IDNIGHT SUN stud colt, SPIRIT’ S JUBILLL With only five months’ training, he is walking off nis
ear end in the finest fashion and you will hear rm more about him.
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