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NEIL ROBINSON STABLES
Over near Memphis, trainer Neil Robinson is heading toward Shelbyviile with some good stock. DE LIGHT’ S DARK SHADOW, a fine black two-year-old stallion, heads the list, closely followed by GO BOY’ S PEACOCK, a three-year-old black mare. She is owned by Dr. H. G. Barker of Humboldt. SHAKER’ S BLUE SON is a blue roan gelding that pleases owner R. E.
Phelon of Trenton, Tenn. MISTER TERRIFIC, also owned by Dr. Barker, is a four-year-old sorrel stallion that has won several top shows this season. THE UNCHAINED MELODY is singing a good song for Mrs. Barry Saunders, who rides this mare in Ladies’ classes.
Neil also plans to show CRUSADER’ S IMAGE for Mrs. O. J. Gordy of Forrest City, Arkansas in the three-year-old class. SUN DUST REBEL MAID is a
top mare owned by Sharon Terry. This mare has a lot of potential that Neil has been able to bring out.
Another fine two-year-old in the barn is REPLICA’ S ACE OF SPADES, owned by Dale and Lowe McDaniel
of Millington, Tennessee. Neil also has a two-year-old filly owned by Mrs. Marie Jeffcoat that will be shown in the Futurity.
DOUGLAS WOLAVER STABLES
Always in the running, Doug Wolaver will again be going strong at the Celebration with a good string of horses. In Amateur classes he will have GO BOY’ S LADY ANN, a champion mare owned and ridden by Mrs. Lyle( Karen) Cashion, and GO BOY’ S BLACK BARON, owned and ridden by Jan Wright of Nacogdoches, Texas. The two-year-old class is headed by GO BOY’ S LADIES MAN, a black stud owned by Captain E. A. Self, and SHAKER’ S DEBUTANTE, a fine filly owned by J. H. Lamar. Doug will also show
HANDSHAKER’ S LADY KIM in the three-year-old mare class for Cashion Farms and his three-year-old stud will be HANDSHAKER’ S DELIGHT, owned by Clyde Frye of Missouri. Aged horses will be in the spotlight somewhat as he hits the ring on SHAKER’ S MERRY ALLEN in the Aged Mare Class and WARLOCK in the Aged Stallion and Championship Stake Classes.
BRIDLEWOOD STABLES
Just fifteen miles north of Birmingham, Alabama at Morris, Wayne Luna is trying to figure out a way to do everything that is in his plans. Now in his second year at this operation, Wayne is overwhelmed by the
response for his services. At present, Wayne has twenty horses in training.
He has some good two-year-olds. MACK’ S GYPSY MAN, owned by R. L. Sandlin of Warrior, has had a
August, 1968 very successful season this year. Wayne also has a roan two-year-old by SPURS CLOWN that is one of those things! He has been brought along slow and is ready to go now. Wayne is high on this colt for the Celebration. He is owned by Mrs. J. W. Miller of Cordova, Alabama. Ernie Hambric of Jasper has a black
GO BOY colt that is coming along nicely.
CAVETT’ S BLACK BEAUTY, a three-year-old mare owned by E. D. Cavett of Birmingham, has been causing a lot of talk this season. Wayne has hopes for her at the Celebration this year.
Mrs. J. W. Miller also has a four-year-old by GO BOY that is coming along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Barger of Morris have a four-year-old gelding known as ALLEY CAT that has tied very well this year in open and lady amateur classes. He is shown by Mrs. Gail Chambers in amateur classes and by Wayne in open classes. Wayne and Gail both feel that he can do well at the Celebration.
MIDNIGHT JET STAR, an aged stallion recently purchased by Ernie Hambric of Jasper, Alabama, has had a very successful season so far this year. Doug Goodlett of Cullman has an aged stud in training with Wayne that has been successful this year. Wayne has several horses for sale and a very nice stud by MERRY GO BOY and out of a GIOVANNI mare that he is standing. Wayne invites everyone to stop by to see him when in his area.
STEPPIN’ HI STABLES
Wyte Tillman, owner of Tillman Motors of Shelby, North Carolina, keeps a very nice string of horses in
trainin at Steppin’ Hi Stables. Leading the way is PERFECTION’ S SUN MAID. She is a two-year-old bay filly that can beat them all. Mr. Tillman also has a nice five-year-old stallion, JEWEL’ S BLACK JEWEL, for stake competition. Another of his horses is a seven-year-old gelding shown in amateur and ladies classes.
MIDNIGHT JOE, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Abee, leads the way in stake competition this year. A three-year-old mare owned by Mr. and Mrs. Johnny
Abee is improving with every show. A black amateur mare owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grinstaff of Hildebran has been doing very well.
GO BOY BLUE is a five-year-old black stallion owned by Dr. John Shell of Valdese. Due to several injuries this horse has only been shown three times. Ho. w as an aged horse he is sound as can be with a
big lick. He is to be held back until next year because of the injuries during his two- and three-yearold career.
The training farm is owned by J. D. Brinkley, Jr. of Valdese. He has two selected brood mares and two fine MACK K’ S HANDSHAKER yearling studs of which he is very proud.
JOE HACKNEY STABLES
Regardless of how many horses a man has, he usually has one or two( if he is lucky) of which he is particularly proud. We talked to Joe Hackney of Nashville recently and he told us about his fine Junior
Mare by SUN’ S ROCKET GO BOY. They have shown this mare consistently this season and have done extremely well with her in the toughest competition. She
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