great big black stud by MIDNIGHT SUN, and both horse and rider are ready to go! Elaine Ellis of Abingdon, Virginia and her gelding have captured a lot of blues, as have the Woods family on MR. MAGIC. barn. storniin &
IRBY STABLES
This Mobile, Alabama stable is having a good show season. The trainer is Ty Irby and he is ably assisted by his two sisters. Heading the list of show stock at present is QUARTERBACK ' S HAN ' T. This fine black stallion has shown extensively, never tying lower than
second. R. B. Jeffries of Citronelle, Alabama has a great pony, FREDDIE THE FREELOADER, in training. In the juvenile classes this year, Sally Irby will be aboard FAIR LADY NAN, a mare owned by the Irbys. In the Ladies ' Amateur Class, Sue Irby will show her good mare, MISS LURLEEN.
Ty also has some good two-year-olds. W. R. Mitchell owns EBONY ' S EBB TIDE, a colt that’ s showing a lot of promise. In the three-year-old classes, Ty will show PRIDE’ S MERRY MAN for W. J. Brown. In the Men’ s Amateur Class, Tv’ s father. Dr. L. E. Irby, will show SUN ' S MR. PICK. EBONY’ S DIAMOND HEAD will be a tough contender in the stake classes. Dr. Irby owns this fine bay stallion, also.
WINDY HILLS STABLES Tommy Wetzel will be taking a good string " ovei the hill” for the Celebration this year from Elizabeth ton, Tennessee. You will be seeing Tommy qualifying THE SPOILER for the big stake. He is a bay stallior owned by Dr. and Mrs. Hoyle Bowman, co-owners o. Windy Hills. THE SPOILER is undefeated for 1968-6t in East Tennessee.
MAC KAY’ S MONA LISA, owned by Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Horton of Bristol, has laid up a pile of blues foi
her owners. In addition, this mare received a silvei tray and the honor of being selected the " best horse ' at the Jonesboro show this year.
A fine black junior stallion, EBONY’ S ECHO C owned by Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Chitwood of Lafayette V J * VTfVr11S comPetltfon « Celebration MR \.; TKEK is another four-year-old black stallior an^dmot n ° dS & 1 ° ng with IotS of style ana motion. i, ook for him at the CelehraH^ r ers Mr. and Mrs. Joe Woods of Johnson City ^ ° W "
A blac * lour-y ear-old mare, EBONY’ S START FTTP tied high at the Columbia Spring JubiWARl ' hTTR > ting better... and better.. Nnd betterNf‘ S get ed by Chitwood, Slagle, Bowman a d,, ^ 18 own Tommy says of her, " Boys, you betterV ^eS’ anC her at the Celebration.” ' etter look out foi
Tommy is also working thrpp for Bob Carr of Watauga anda ^T \ B, g0Od h ° rses mare for Art Smithdeal of HizahLu, 1 httle iuvenilc one of the coowners of Windv Hill l ° n ' Dr- Slagle to make his debut with SUN’ S MlDNl1fUng read >
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MUSSELWHITE STABLES
Celebration Bound!
Three of the nicest fellows in the Middle Tennessee area are working for H. S. Musselwhite, Jr., in Shelbyville. Sam and Frank Witherspoon are the trainers and Charles Witherspoon is the manager, and these three brothers operate the facility for Mr. Musselwhite, who is from Maitland, Florida. They are taking good brood mares and breeding them to the top studs in Tennessee, and from the colts they pick five or six
select prospects and break and train them for the showring. They do not put the emphasis on showing, but on selling this stock to other trainers that will take them on their showring career. Last year they sold just such a two-year-old, DELIGHT’ S CAN DO. Trainer Sam Caldwell took this colt to Texas and has done a lot of winning with him. During the Celebration this year, Sam and CAN DO will be stabled out at Musselwhite Stables.
All the stock is owned by Mr. Musselwhite, and they have several top two-year-olds this season. HAWK’ S IMAGE is a bay stalhon that Frank is very pleased
with. A really pretty " fancy dan,” MAID’ S FLYING ACE is a blue roan with perfect black markings. CLOUD NINE( by FLYING CLOUD) and DELIGHTS GOLD MINE( by SUN’ S DELIGHT) are two more they would like for you to come by and see during the Celebration.
PREACH FLEMING STABLES
Preach Fleming brought some of R. D. Keene’ s horses from Florida a few weeks ago to make some of
the Middle Tennessee shows, and will be stabled at J ack Montgomery Stables until after the Celebration. He made six shows in Middle Tennessee and won six blues. Pretty good record! Making the tr. ek from Florida were the undefeated two-year-old gelding SHAD OW’ S DELIGHT; the three-year-old stallion, SUNDUST JAMBOREE, that won the Florida Circuit this year; and a two-year-old filly that won the Murfreesboro show recently, MARK’ S SUMMER DREAM.
L. FRANK ROPER STABLES
Another Florida trainer stabled at Jack Montgomery; Stables in Shelbyville is Shorty Thomas, who has L. Frank Roper’ s horses. He seems to have been making many shows recently including Louisville, Ky. and the Chattahoochee Horse Show in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Roper won the Chattahoochee Amateur Stake and tied second in the Louisville Amateur Class and Stake on his mare, SUN’ S ANGEL. Shorty has been showing SHA DOW AT MIDNIGHT and tied reserve in Louisville. They plan to stay through the Celebration at Jack’ s spacious stables.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse