liked the horse and together they decided to bid on him as he went through the sale.
The bidding on SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND B. began rather slowly as trainer Neil Clark rode im m the sales tent. As he got loosened up, howevei, natural ability began to show to good advantage and, shortly thereafter, several notable Middle Tennessee trainers began to bid on him. Not to be out done, Dr. McDonald decided that he was going to take this horse home with him, and he did. SUN
GLO’ S DIAMOND B. topped the sale for a young horse with a price of $ 7,200.00. Needless to say, he is worth a whole lot more than that today.
In talking with Mose and Dr. McDonald about their horse, we were reminded of several interesting chapters in the story of SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND B. Mose reminded us that this horse was a feature part of the nation-wide television coverage that was given to the Murray Farm Sale that year. He also reminded us that it was then that they reserved the first front cover of the VOICE that was available, and they thought that April, 1968 would never get here.
The pi gress that has been made with this fine horse is a story in itself. He has been a perfect model of what a Tennessee Walking Horse should be. He '-lands a hair over sixteen hands and is in perfect health. As a three-year-old he responded to his training very well, taking the canter and settling in his gaits exceptionally well. Shown four times as a three-year-old, he won four blues. He was shown six times as a junior horse in and around the Kentucky area, and won five blues and one reserve. SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND B. has no bad habits, is gentle and enthusiastic, easy to load and easy to haul, and has a lot of natural ability and plenty of motion in his gaits. In other words, he has proved to be a true“ diamond” of the horse world.
Neither Mose Oppenheimer nor Dr. Frank Mc Donald care to make any predictions regarding their future plans for SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND B. They will bring him out as an age horse at the Cincinnati Horse Show early in May and will take a step-bystep attitude toward the Celebration for far as age horses go for this season, the Water^
mighty deep; but if good breeding, natural abuit ' S stamina and show-horse ways can get the job do ^ they all better watch for SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND^’ He just might be standing there when the tide goes out.
Mose Oppenheimer has been in the horse busi ness for a long time. He has been training pro^ fessionally since 1958 and has done very well. His farm boasts 166 acres and a fine stable with twenty- nine stalls. At present he is working 22 horses with some good stock in just about every class Mose got started in the horse business like a lot of other people; his natural interest led to activity and soon he was trying to learn all he could about Tennessee Walking Horses. He spent a lot of time around the Claude Brown Stables in Morehead, Kentucky in the fifties, and his first show horse was BLUE JAY 0, which he showed with great success for four years. Since that time he has made and campaigned such horses as MIDNIGHT PRIDE M, CAPTAIN EDDIE II, GO BOY’ S RAM BLER and GO BOY’ S LINDA. Compared to other Walking Horse trainers, Mose is doing quite well. He is thirty-four years old, and he and his wife, Omega, and their three children thoroughly enjoy the horse business. Eleven-year-old Michael, ten- year-old Kathy and eight-year-old Danny all participate in the horse activity of their father. In addition to training show horses, Mose is standing GO BOY S MISTER MACK, a fine stallion owned by Oppenheimer and Locke.
Dr. Frank McDonald has been captured by the Walking Horse in much the same way as all of us. Several years ago he and the McDonalds moved to a farm outside New Castle. It wasn’ t long before he decided to build a clinic near the farm and now it is almost one operation. He states that his patients come just as regularly as before and l() Ne to see the horses on pasture. We expect to see lot more about the horse activity of Dr. McDonald
in the future, and wish him and Mose Oppenheimer great success with SUN GLO’ S DIAMOND B.
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