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thus far, winning top amateur championship classes
at Thomasville, N. C., Bassett, Va., High Point, N. C ,
and Dallas-Gastonia, N. C. SAM has also taken re
serve wins at Rock Hill, S. C. and Hickory, N. C.
Bob Cherry showed SAM as a two-year-old and as
a three-year-old, placing in the money 34 out of 36
times in the show ring. The Longs bought SAM dur
ing the 1967 Murray Farm Sale from Bob Cherry and
showed him in four-year-old competition in North and
South Carolina and Georgia last season, winning four
blues and six reserves. SAVAGE SAM is a top-bred
stallion by EASTER'S GO BOY out of a MERRY
MAKER mare.
The Longs have recently started working their four-
year-old EBONY BIG MOMENT mare. This mare was
Tennessee State Two-Year-Old Mare Class winner in
Nashville.
MIDNITE PERFECTION H., a beautiful solid chest
nut two-year-old stallion by MIDNIGHT SUN and out
of a SUN DUST mare, is being worked for the Longs
by Sam Garwood, the very capable trainer and owner
of Double 'O’ Farms in Lexington. N C. This colt is a
perfect specimen and should be in competition soon.
C. A. BOBO & SON STABLES
We recently learned that the folks at the Bobo Sta
bles in Shelbyville, Tennessee are busy selling horses
as well as training them. Top news recently was the
sale of GO BOY’S BLACK ANGEL, a truly outstand
ing black mare that is as great as her name implies.
This mare was recently purchased by Mr. M. R. Cor
bin, Jr. of Houston, Texas for a price well into five
figures. Charlie Bobo will continue to train and show
her through the Celebration and after that Mrs. Ann
Corbin will show her in Amateur and Ladies competi
tion. Future plans call for the mare to be placed at
Dorothy Duke’s Bayou Park Stables after the Baton
Rouge Horse Show in the fall. The mare was previous
ly owned by Mr. C. M. Waters, Jr. of Jackson, Miss.
BILLY BRANTLEY STABLES
Down in Theodore, Alabama, Billy Brantley has been
busy for the past eight months building a string of
horses at the Deep South Stables. He is operating on
his own and has 23 horses in training at the present.
Tops in his string is the ever-popular SETTING SUNS
APOLLO, the 1963 World Champion Two-Year-Old and
Class Champion in the Pony Division at the 1967 Cele
bration with Lynn Doughty up. He has been shown six
times and has won five blues this year. Billy says
that he will be going strong by Celebration time. An
other horse in the Doughty string is MYSTIC TIMES,
a three-year-old sorrel stud that Tommy Doughty is
showing. Tommy, a well-known athlete and sports en
thusiast in Alabama, has "gotten the bug” and if he
approaches the show ring with the same enthusiasm
as he has other sports we better get ready for some
tough going. This boy is a competitor.
In open competition Billy has been showing SHAK
ER'S HANDYMAN, a fine chestnut three-year-old stud
owned by Slocum and Doughty. He started this colt
late and is bringing him along slow but he should be
ready for top competition later in the season. Billy
has a two-year-old stud colt by MIDNIGHT SUN that
has great prospects. His name is SUN’S INDEPEN
DENCE and he. should be a good one for owners Jew
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el Brantley and Tom Doughty. Also in the two-year-
old ranks is a fine colt by BOMB’S BALLY HOO. He
is owned by Vance Slocum and shows great promise.
Short on aged horses, Billy has one good mare owned
by John Waller name JADA’S JAMBOREE. She has
been shown six times this year with good results
Billy points out that he is in the process of buying
some top stock and is aiming at next year when he
hopes to build a string of horses that he can really
go with.
DAVID MASON STABLES
One of the most popular young men in the business
is David Mason of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. David
made a place for himself when he produced SUPER
SPORT as a two-year-old in 1966. Since then he has
had good success with young horses and has had
enough business to enable him to build a new stable.
At present he is working fifteen horses, most of them
young stock and he has several that he feels will
surpass anything that he has shown before.
The most talked-about horse in his stable at the
present is a black stud named SCAT MAN’S IMAGE.
He is owned by McFarland, Maples and Jones, all of
Murfreesboro, and has all the potential that a young
horse is entitled to. He is big and has a very relaxed
way of going. David has been working him slowly with
no intention of showing him as a two-year-old. We
saw this horse work and he adjusts very well to any
changes that are made in boots and his attitude is
very good. Don’t be surprised if David Mason comes
out next year on a top three-year-old.
Maxine Johnson of Kansas City has a sorrel two-
year-old in training by RODGER’S GO BOY. He is a
sorrel stud colt that made his first show at Woodbury.
Also, Fred Jones, Dr. Carl Adams and Carolyn Lane
have a fine MIDNIGHT SUN filly that is doing very
well. She has not been shown but should be ready
shortly. The Mason Stables also boast of a top colt by
MERRY GO BOY that is making fine progress. This
is a black filly owned by Ray Carter of Lynchburg,
Virginia and all reports are that she has the makings
of a fine show mare.
David appears to have a lot of customers who ap
preciate patience and are not in a hurry with young
stock. We believe we will hear a lot about their horses
later on.
M c F arland
farms
We recently made a trip to the McFarland Farms in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee and were sorry to hear of
the death of SUN’S BLACK MAGIC LM, one of the
top stallions standing at the James Rowland Stables
on the farm. Mr. McFarland stated that it was not yet
determined what the cause of death was but that he
died quite unexpectedly. BLACK MAGIC was a well-
known and popular stud and had produced some truly
outstanding colts that had made the top in the show
ring. He was owned by Mr. Jim Burns and Mr. H. C.
Bailey.
While there we inquired about the breeding success
of their other two stallions and learned that SCAT
MAN had an excellent year, with well over a hundred
mares to his courtand thatSHADOW’S REFLECTION,
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