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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