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old stallion. Don and AIR GUN made a thrilling show at the Searcy show held during Joe Webb’ s sale. This horse could be the greatest to come from the state of Missouri if he continues his exciting performances. He is by GUNSMOKE’ S SON.
Don has made news with another Junior horse early in the season. COMMAND’ S DECISION, the bay fouryear-old owned by Preston Richardson, walked away with the blue at the Good Samaritan Charity Horse
Show in Springfield in a ring full of sixteen good Junior horses.
Don also has a good prospect in COMMANDER’ S BLITZ, a three-year-old full brother to COMMAND’ S DECISION. This good colt is owned by Henry Lunneman of St. Louis.
Don is also working a number of good horses for Dr. Ralph Baney of the Red Bridge Farm in Kansas City.
Don always has several good amateur and juvenile
horses showing from his barn. Jane Richardson and GUNSMOKE’ S FIRST LADY are ready to continue their winning streak. Last fall these two ended the season with a blue in the ladies’ and in the amateur stake at the American Royal Horse Show, which is one of the greatest in the nation. Melody Major of Jefferson City has another black mare with Don— a four-vear-old by THE WITCH DOCTOR, who is the sire of WARLOCK. Named WITCH DOCTOR’ S MAG IC, this mare is for safe at present.
Ed Loeffler has his mare, COMMANDER ' S GO GO GIRL, in training here, also. They say that she is much improved over last season.
Don has a good contender for either the mare class or the junior with the bay mare, COMMANDER’ S SO CIETY. This sending mare is owned by Gene Goff of Jefferson City Two other nice mares in the barn are
• JADA JOKER. George Logan’ s black mare, and LADY IN COMMAND, who belongs to Lester Wilkerson.
If you are in the California area, be sure to drop in and see the Bolingers. I am sure they will be glad to see you.
Echo Acres Stables of Springfield also have a barn full of show horses. C. L. LeDuc is the owner, Floyd Posenke the trainer. Whenever the gates open for the
amateur class Floyd will send in a ring full; besides these, he has several outstanding young and open horses. Morris Collier of Fayetteville, Arkansas has his black amateur stallion with Floyd. This five-yearold is named ROCKY HILL. Another black amateur horse is the good mare, CHIMNEY SWEEP, owned by Bill and Dorrell Hanks of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Carpenter of Lee’ s Summit have two new amateur horses that they should do well with. GO BOY’ S MARK was the reserve three-year-old champion in
the Southwest Missouri Horse Show Association last year. Their other new horse is GO BOY’ S GLORY.
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WALKIN’ IN ARKANSAS by Joan Beasley
This being the first article from Arkansas, perhaDs a short introductory paragraph is in order. My hus band, Joe, is a Veterinary Pathologist at the Univer sity of Arkansas. We have a little boy, Mike, aged five, and are all Walking Horse enthusiasts. We are " dabbling " in the business just for fun, and are venturing into the showring this year with our stallion— also for fun! We think Arkansas has needed to be represented in our favorite magazine, the VOICE, for a long time now, and it will be up to you Walking Horse people of our state to help keep this column going. Start advertising your horses so other states will know what we have, and please send all information about your horses to me, Mrs. Joe Beasley, Valhalla, Route 1, Farmington, Arkansas 72730, or phone 267-3857. Thank you.
If any of you want to spend a very pleasant day and see some top horses worked, visit the Bruce Harris
Stables at Lamar in Johnson County. The stables are located on 400 acres with timbered hills, rolling mead ows, a lake, and all the best of our Arkansas scenery Add to this mares with foals by their sides and wha^ more could one ask? Mr. Harris is a most genial host and an avid field-trial man, and will certainly take you on the grand tour to show off both his horses and his bird dogs.
Mr. Jerry Underwood, one of the most capable young trainers around, will ride every horse in the barn for you and maybe let you ride, too, if you hint just a little! The barn has 19 stalls, farrier’ s space, washing-down room, tack room, and office. There is an indoor hallway 204 feet long for bad-weather riding and an outside ring for nicer days. Jerry, who worked with Joe Webb of Searcy and worked with a couple of their World Champions, not only trains show horses but also many good field-trial and pleasure horses. Right now he is working especially hard on their GO BOY’ S SHADOW stallion, SHADOWS FLASH, which they are showing this season. FLASH, a lovely deep chestnut and a real natural, is the pride of the barn and rightly so. Their big, black and beautiful stud, ARKANSAS MIDNIGHT( known as PEPPER) by MID NIGHT PLEASURE, has had a run of hard luck the past couple of years but perhaps he’ ll be back in the work ring by next season.
Two three-year-old fillies, both by PEPPER, are coming on especially good— MIDNIGHT JAN and MARY
GAY H. Jerry had MARY GAY in the ring on one of my recent visits and she was doing everything he asked for and more... and he asks for a lot. He is also spending a lot of time on two outside horses: Mr. Wilson Jones of Clarksville has a three-year-old blue roan stallion, PARADER’ S SERENADE, that is like a melody to watch, and we have our own JAVA B., a
black roan MERRY BOY stallion, being put through his gaits every day. JAVA is coming home shortly, however, simply because we miss him!
Just spoke with Mr. Bill Bayles from over Siloam Springs way, and he says he has sold off most of his
stock, leaving just a couple of brood mares right now. Of course, he and Mrs. Nancy Randall still have RAN DALL’ S SNOWMAN, a snow-white stud, in training with Sonny Scrivner up in Missouri. Mr. Bayles, who rode SNOWMAN to a blue at Crane, Missouri, is an amateur who has ridden Walkers for just about three short years, but he is always in that ring up against the pros and really does a formidable job!
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