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class for the past two years at the Celebration. Miss Allen is sharing her talent with local riders, as she is giving riding lessons by appointment.
For Dr. B. T. Iglehart of Clarksville, Charles Massey is training EL DORADO’ S CHOICE W. This big bay gelding is a dependable amateur, juvenile or stake horse at any time. He has a head-shaking big lick, and he was shown to tenth place in the four-year-old gelding class at the 1966 Celebration. Also for the Igleharts, Charles is training COTTON QUEEN’ S MAY 4TH. This five-year-old satiny black mare is by COTTON QUEEN’ S GO BOY and will be coming on strong for competition in 1968.
Sun Crest has several outstanding colts in training. A four-year-old stud by EBONY MASTERPIECE out of a LAST CHANCE mare is making steady progress toward junior honors this spring. Owned by Sun Crest Stable and C. C. Freeman, this colt should make big news before long. In the two-year-old stallion class, Sun Crest will campaign a sorrel colt with flaxen mane and tail. This colt is by GO BOY’ S SHADOW out of a MIDNIGHT SUN mare. Its owners are Dr. and Mrs. James Morgan of Henderson, Kentucky. The other outstanding member of the two-year-old pair is a black filly by STATELY GO BOY in training for Joe Parker of Murray, Ky. The prime contender for three-year-old championships is an outstanding bay stud by SUN’ S ROCKET GO BOY.
SCRIVNER STABLES
Sonny Scrivner seems to be doing fine with his new stable in Rogersville, Missouri, just outside Springfield. Sonny has been training horses since 1947. He has three outstanding mares that have moved into his barn which opened February first. In all, he has fourteen horses in training and facilities to handle twentyfour. Several more have been promised and are on the way.
CANDY KISSES is a beautiful sorrel aged mare owned by Dan Wiley of Rogersville. This mare is sitting up in that bridle and really stroking. She was 1966 Amateur Champion in Missouri and she has tied twice at the Celebration. They also have a three-yearold bay stallion for Dan by EBONY MASTERPIECE that’ s really shaping up.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Hollaway have an excellent mare with Sonny, too. MIDNIGHT SUN’ S MISTRESS is the right color— black— and is just now reaching her prime. She shakes that head and is developing a
beautiful canter, and will be a real three-gaited Walking Horse. The Hollaways also have a top prospect
in a blue roan two-year-old filly by SUN’ S BLACK
MAGIC LM called SUN’ S MAGIC LADY. They also have two other good black horses here. SUN DUST PRIDE is a black three-year-old stallion. MIDNIGHT RAMBLER, a black gelding, is improving greatly and they are also proud of their stallion, RHODA’ S MACK K. Bill Kissee has three horses at Scrivner Stables. His mare, KISSIN’ KIN, teamed with daughter Judy, should be tough in that juvenile competition. He has a colt by DANNY GO BOY here that has walking ways, and another sorrel colt with lots of class SET TING SUN’ S PLAYBOY. Another top two-year-old bay colt is owned by Gary Acker of Ash Grove. He is by Francis Dulin’ s top stud, BLACK ANGEL’ S MACK K, and like so many of this stallion’ s colts he has that right way of going
Sonny is also working an aged stallion, SULTAN’ S COPPER KING, for J. W. Wolfe of Columbia, Miss This horse has a big bold way of going and a tremendous front end.
He is also working a bay two-year-old stallion, SHA DOW’ S MYSTERY MAN, that is very promising for owners Terry Scott and Gerald Patton of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Stop by and see Sonny and Linda Scrivner if you are in the neighborhood. They will be glad to show you their stock, as they love to have visitors.
SEARS’ STABLE
There was a blue Texas ' norther’ blowing outside but inside the Sears’ Stable in Houston, Texas there was far too much activity and planning for anyone to notice.
Bob Sherrill, able trainer for the Jim Sears family, has fifteen head of show horses in the barn. As if this were not enough work, they also have a remodeling project in the making which will make the barn extremely attractive and serviceable.
The fine bay mare, SHADOW’ S SWEETHEART, shown formerly by Jim in the amateur classes, will be shown this year by daughter Sherry. This is the result of a switch whereby Sherry’ s fine, big-striding black mare, GUNSMOKE’ S DREAM, becomes the show property of her father. Both of these mares are clean, and Jim and Bob have come to the conclusion that everyone who professes to train horses should realize— " the only way to make a show horse is by time spent in the saddle.”
Sears’ Stable has a fine junior horse in SANDMAN’ S MISCHIEF. This big black stallion with a blaze made a name for himself as a two-year-old and is now ready to go the big route.
A young rider with a big future ahead is Kim Sears. This young man has just one show season behind him, but his progress is horsemanship and showmanship is spectacular. This season Kim will start on the
show trail on his good gelding, REX GO MAN, but a new mount is in the making. This new mount is the
good four-year-old black mare, SHADOW’ S COUN TRY GIRL. There is not a two-year-old among the fifteen head at the stable, but they are loaded with talented threes
and fours. The showiest of this age group is a threeyear-old filly, SUN’ S SOCIETY LADY B, of Celebration halter class fame. She’ s big, black and beautiful, and just about ready.
The famous JOHNNY REB is at stud at the Sears’ Stable, and what few colts he has sired thus far are reported to be extremely fine. JOHNNY REB had an injury last season which was difficult to detect, so therefore was not shown, but— he just might find himself back in pads and show shoes very soon.
BOB WOMBLE STALLION STABLES
Two top stallions, SUN’ S BIG SHOT and KEENE’ S GO BOY, are now standing at this new operation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Owner Bob Womble has purchased SUN’ S BIG SHOT and has a lease arrangement on KEENE’ S GO BOY with owners Clayton & Hood of Attalla, Alabama.
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