year— he will be tough competition in any show ring this year. A great little black mare, EBONY’ S STAR- LETTE, who was held back and shown sparingly as a two- and three-year-old, will be something to reckon with in the four-year-old mare class. Tommy thinks she is capable of winning the Junior Mare Class at the Celebration. Tommy will show a MIDNIGHT SUN GLO-O black stud colt in the Junior classes this year. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wood, he has worlds of motion and stride, and will be ridden in amateur classes by Lee Wood Dancey. Mr. and Mrs. John Diehl of Jonesboro have a four-year-old SHADOW gelding that will be shown by Roger Henegar, assistant trainer at Windy Hills, in professional classes. He will also be shown in Juvenile and Ladies classes by the Diehls’ two lovely daughters, Barbie and Debbie.
Amateur riders are on the increase at Windy Hills. A comparative newcomer to the ring will be Dr. David Slagle on SUN’ S MIDNIGHT SUN, and a big black stud by MIDNIGHT SUN- a six-year-old that has never been shown because of an accident. Amateur riders, beware! he’ s got lots of walkin’ and noddin.’ Elaine Ellis, Abingdon, Ya., will be back in the saddle on her MIDNIGHT SUN GLO-O stud in the Amateur Classes. She made some good shows last year and anticipates more ribbons to her credit this season. MR. MAGIC and Joe Wood will stroll in again to make ' em sit up and watch. Mr. Wood is taking his riding more seriously now, and MR. MAGIC just sits there and does what it takes to make a horse look like a Walking Horse. In the Ladies and Amateur classes, Mrs. Bowman will be showing GO BOY’ S BARON for Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Anderson of Bristol, Va. This is a black gelding with lots of form and action. Roger Henegar will also be showing this gelding some in the Stud & Gelding Classes. Mrs. Kenneth Gregory( Terri) anticipates hitting the show ring this year with LIT TLE BIT O’ MISCHIEF, a cocky sorrel GO BOY gelding. Look for her in the Amateur and Ladies classes. Terri is from Johnson City.
Windy Hills’ juvenile riders are veterans of the show ring. Cathy Chitwood will be back showing her fiveyear-old bay mare in style. This is the mare out of SIR HENRY’ S ECHO. She will, no doubt, be showing in the Ladies, Amateur Mare and Juvenile Classes. The mare looks great this year. Art Smithdeal, Elizabethton, will return to the ring in Juvenile classes on a new mare.
A big surprise to everyone is a bay stud named THE SPOILER. By EBONY MASTERPIECE, he will be a contender in stake classes and the big stake at the Celebration. Dr. Bowman sent Mrs. Bowman to find him an Amateur horse for his own pleasure. It turned out that Dr. Bowman’ s pleasure was in watching Tommy work and show this stud. He made a good record last year in the four-year-old division, and it is mutually agreed that Tommy will continue with him in the Open and Stake classes. They are a lively pair
- Tommy says, " A great horse to work and show.” As a matter of fact, Windy Hills liked him so well they purchased his mother, a GO BOY mare, and now have a young filly, a full sister to THE SPOILER, and the mare has been bred back to EBONY MASTER PIECE. Another delight will be a black MIDNIGHT SUN stud owned by J. L. Horton. MIDNIGHT SPLEN DOR will be shown in open classes by Tommy and^in amateur classes by Mr. Horton.
SHADOW’ S COPY KAT will return to the Stake Class after the breeding season. He is owned by Mr.
22 and Mrs. Allen Smithdeal of Elizabethton. The Smithdeals are long-time lovers of horses, and it is hoped that Mary will make her debut this year on one of the many horses that she and her husband Allen own.
MONA LISA, a mare owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Horton, Blountville, will be leading the way in the mare classes as well as the stake classes. She was a good mare last year, winning many shows, but is a better-than-ever mare this year after some rest and relaxation from training rigors.
Windy Hills has some of the best breeding stallions in the East Tennessee- Southwest Virginia- Western North Carolina area. They are: THE GOLDEN PROM- ENADER, by HALL ALLEN out of a LAST CHANCE mare, a sorrel, the 1959 Amateur World Champion; HILLSIDE’ S SHADOW, a black stud by GO BOY’ S SHADOW and out of a MIDNIGHT SUN mare; and MIDNIGHT SPORTSMAN, a black by MIDNIGHT SUN out of a MERRY BOY mare.
Tommy, as well as the Slagles and Bowmans, would be delighted to have you visit Windy Hills. This is a comparatively new operation, but they have the stock and facilities of which they can be very proud.
SUN’ S HOLIDAY
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1968 CELEBRATION FILMS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION
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The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration announces that the film of the 1968 show is ready for distribution. This is a 16mm film in color with sound track. There are two films of the 1968 show: one is the complete show, which runs for about forty-two minutes; and the other is for the last two nights, Friday and Saturday, which runs for about twenty-four minutes.
The films are available for showing to any responsible, interested groups such as civic and riding clubs, schools, and horse show sponsoring organizations. There is no charge for the showing of the film other than the cost of return postage and insurance. Anyone interested in securing the films, please write Celebration, Inc., P. O. Box 192, Shelbyville, Tenn. 37160.
APEL STABLES
Our good friend Dr. Otto Apel of Portsmouth, Ohio recently sent us a letter regarding his family horse activity. The letter was so interesting we decided to print it in Barnstorming. It read:
" We have built a new training barn and riding arena at our Stock Farm and at the present time it is quite active. The stabling facilities and the riding arena are more than adequate to make a show horse from the breaking period to the finished product. At the present time we are working two three-year-old fillies, both by an OLD GLORY, JR. stallion and out of half-sister mares, both by LAST CHANCE. One is a beautiful dark chestnut with white markings who has really been the star of the barn since she was started. She has a natural rear end with lots of stride
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