This Hanceville, Alabama stable is off to a fine start in the current show season, having shown twentyeight horses and having tied twenty-four of them in the money. They have some aged horses and also a barn chock-full of young stock. The famous BLUE’ S MARY DOLL was " made” at Hicks Stables, never having been trained anywhere else. She is owned by Dr. and Mrs. Harry Blaylock of Birmingham, and continues to meet and defeat the best mares on the show circuit.
Dr. Sarah Womack and Cindy, of Shelbyville, are proud of their four-year-old black stallion, SHADOW’ S RINGMASTER. He had a successful year in 1968 and is even more promising now. He is a show horse all the way.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Perkinson, Hanceville, have a three-year-old bay stallion by MIDNIGHT SUN out of a GO BOY mare. This is a " big lick” horse with lots of head motion and rhythm. The Perkinsons also own a three-year-old sorrel mare by EBONY MASTER PIECE. She has never been tied out of the money.
E. C. Mood }' of Birmingham is doing well with his amateur mount, SHADOW’ S G MAN.
Two fine juvenile riders from the Hicks Stables are Marth Cox, Birmingham, and Linda Kirchler, Hueytown.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Jolly of Birmingham are happy about the way their SUN OF MASTERPIECE stallion is performing, and winning his part of the awards. Mr. and Mrs. Lane Horton, Hanceville, have a threeyear-old black stallion, THE SUNDOWNER, that is doing a " big lick” and has been winning consistently.
E. M. Cavett recently brought his four-year-old black mare to Hicks Stables. She is maintaining her reputation as a winning show mare and is improving as the season advances.
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TOMMY KERKELES STABLES As most of his friends know, Tommy Kerkeles is the Director of the Cosmetology Board for the State of Tennessee, but in his spare time he always finds time to spend with a few Walking Horses. Back in 1958, Tommy had an amateur horse, SUN’ S REGAL HEIR, that won blues all that ' season, then tied third in the Amateur Class at the Celebration and fifth in the Amateur Stake. He sold this horse to J. Glenn Turner of Circle T Ranch in Dallas, Texas right after the 1958 Celebration.
Since that time Tommy has been looking for that kind of Amateur horse to show again, and he just recently found him. FLASHING MIDNIGHT SUN has been owned by A1 Archer of Chattanooga, but now Tommy Kerkeles owns half of this black stallion. In his first show, Tommy and FLASHING MIDNIGHT SUN won the amateur class at Gallatin, Tennessee. Plans are to head for the amateur class at the Celebration again this year.
J. W. HICKS & SONS STABLES
CAROLINA STABLES
Located in Neeses, South Carolina, this stable is under the care of trainer Jerry Sumners. Jerry has only been here a short time but is making rapid progress with their show string.
Colby Furtick has some top prospects in training including two black fillies by a MIDNIGHT SUN stud. One is out of a PRIDE OF PANOLA mare and the other dam is a MERRY GO BOY mare. He also has a TRIPLE THREAT stud colt in training.
T. A. Covington has a dapple-gray two-year-old stud colt named MR. POLITIC who is outstanding. He also has a bay filly by GO BOY’ S SHADOW out of a
MIDNIGHT SUN mare and a black filly out of a MA- J OR WILSON mare that show promise.
JACK MONTGOMERY STABLES If you want to see one of the best looking mares in the Walking Horse business, stop by Jack Montgomery’ s stable in Shelbyville, Tennessee. SHADOW’ S SALLY NELL is a three-year-old sorrel mare and a full sister to SHADOW’ S GOLD BOND. Jack’ s been bringing her along real slow, and did not show her at all as a two-year-old. She’ s really something to look at!
MIDNIGHT IKE, owned by Jack and Claude Brown of Morehead, Kentucky, is in good condition and Jack seems well pleased with the breeding season for this stallion. As usual, Jack has some top colts for sale.
H. C. BAILEY STABLES
A rising young trainer has recently moved to an established Walking Horse stable in Mississippi. Howard Roberts, formerly with Hinson Walking Horse
Stables in Sumter, S. C., has taken over the training chores at the H. C. Bailey facility in Jackson, Miss.
A well-known name in the Walking Horse business, the Baileys have maintained a fine operation for many years and have had some of the finest trainers in the trade working here, including Jim Babb and George Livingston. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and their son are best known for their ownership of GO BOY’ S SHADOW, now standing at the Beech Stables in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Roberts, a relative newcomer to the horse business, moved from Missouri, where he trained horses for several years, after the 1968 Celebration.
A former high school teacher and coach, Mr. Roberts became involved with pleasure horses in the early 1960’ s and, like many others, slowly developed an
interest in show stock. While at Hinson Stables he made a fine record for himself from the Florida Circuit to Tennessee and did much to stimulate new interest in the breed in the Sumter area.
Howard carried a few horses with him to Jackson and will have several fine horses in training owned by the H. C. Baileys, as well as some good stock owned by new customers in Mississippi. The operation will still be known as the H. C. Bailey Stables, and the address is Route 3, Box 441, Jackson, Mississippi. The phone number is 366-2066.
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