SALE OF SHOWRING CHAMPIONS BIGGEST SUCCESS EVER
From the standpoint of prices, good horses and new customers, the 1968 Sale of Showring Champions was the best ever. In checking the final results with Mrs. Barbara June Wiggins, we learned that the total receipts were up approximately $ 80,000 over the previous year. This is a credit to everyone including buyers and sellers. It reflects the healthy future of the Walking Horse market and indicates that we are continuing to make progress.
This sale, perhaps more than any other, including the Murray Farm Sale, can be used as an indicator
of the market because there is a larger variety of prospective buyers. A lot of people from different parts of the United States can make only one trip to Middle Tennessee during the year and they prefer to come during the Celebration. While here they make whatever purchases fit into their personal program and the sales are the most logical place to do it. One thing that was predominant in the minds of a lot of
experienced bystanders at the 1968 Sale of Showring Champions was the fact that so many new faces were there. There were people who were buying good horses that we had never seen or heard of, which indicates that new markets are opening up. We are no longer " buying and selling from one another.”
Tops in the sale was GO BOY’ S BRENDA LEE, a fine Junior mare that has an excellent show record. She was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Barry Saunders
of Germantown, Tennessee for SI7,300 after a lengthy and frenzied round of bidding. She was considered one of the top horses to be auctioned in 1968. Another impressive sale was that of BETTY’ S MASTERPIECE, a fine black filly by EBONY that has great promise. She was consigned by Frank Parnell and was purchased for SI 1,200 by Mr. V. G. Gochneaur for Fashion Two Twenty Stables, Aurora, Ohio. Next in line was the popular TIGER BAY, one of a series of horses consigned by Harber & Cherry Stables. The fancy bay
stud brought $ 8,750 and was purchased by Wilson Brazelton of Nashville. TIGER LILLY did not go through the sale due to an injury. Some other topprice horses were: EBONY GO BOY, consigned by Steve Beech and purchased by Fashion Two Twenty for S5,600; SHADOW’ S EPITOME G, consignedby Bud Seaton and purchased by Harry Hillier for $ 4,700; EBONY ' S MARCH WIND, consigned by S. W. Beech and purchased by Rene Arnaud for Audubon Stables, New Orleans, for $ 5,000; and MISSYSUN’ S DELIGHT, a fine chestnut mare consigned by Bud Speight of Jackson, Tennessee and purchased by Dr. Harry Hill of Atlanta. These are just a few of the more than 350 horses that were sold during the week of September 3 at the Sale of Showring Champions.
You are reminded by Mr. S. W. Beech and Mr. Pete Yokley that their annual Fall Murray Farm Sale will be held October 15 through 18 at the farm in Lewisburg. We understand that they now have a full consignment of over six hundred horses and that buyers should write in early for room reservations and a catalog so they can make their plans on the horses they want to bid on. See you there!
TOPS IN THE SALE— Mr. and Mrs. Barry Saunders are pictured with trainer Neil Robinson as they proudly exhibit their new horse, GO BOY ' S BREN DA LEE.
HARD AT WORK— Auctioneer Eddie Bryant takes a needed rest as Pete Yokley gives instructions to his secretary. Herb McClain is hard at it as the sale continues to pick up momentum.
TIGER BAY FAN CLUB— Mr. Wilson Brazelton is pictured with TIGER BAY as trainer Bob Cherry and " Dee " Kilpatrick look proudly at the transaction. This fine bay stallion topped the sale of the family of TIGERS.
58 Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse