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VOLUNTEER STABLES
Trainer ’' Red ” Stacey reports all systems are go for the 1969 show season with some top stock coming out of this well-constructed stable in Manchester , Tennessee . The stable is owned by two enthusiastic Manchester horsemen , Jack Thomas and Bob Gilley .
Red is working 19 head of horses including five twoyear-olds . He is working a two-year-old SHADOW filly owned by J . French and Charley Brantley . This colt has the right color — black — and the potential to be a good one .
Another two-year-old filly of interest is a sorrel colt by ELDORADO . This filly has caught the eye of many barn visitors . She is owned by Sammy Bratcher of McMinnville . The two-year-old stud that has people in the barn talking is by ELDORADO and is owned by Red and Paul Gustafson of Manchester .
In the three-year-old division . Red is working a fine PIDDLEY stud owned by Lila Mason of Winchester . Junior competition will see a fine competitor owned by Louis Hawkersmith and Clark Raines of Tullahoma . This colt has a flax mane and tail and is a beautiful sorrel . Also in junior classes will be a MIDNIGHT SUN bay stud named SUN ’ S DEBONAIRE . This horse is owned by Bob Gilley .
Carrying the Volunteer Stables banner in open competition will be GO BOY ’ S SPACE MAN . This sixyear-old black stud is owned by E . W . Lowe of Bell Buckle .
Red has a fine string of horses to show this year and he will be happy to show them to you anytime you stop by the barn . Also they have horses for sale and will try to find the horse to suit your needs . They recently sold the top mare MORNING STAR K to Dr . and Mrs . Donald Barnes of Lauderdale Stables in Buchanan , Virginia . Lauderdale trainer George Livingston is real happy with this mare and will no doubt win many ribbons before the season is over .
C . ft . BOBO and SON STABLES
SHELBYVILLE , TENNESSEE PHONE : 615 / 684-1043
Sorry ... we sold him yesterday !
EBONY ’ S OLD CROW Five-Year-Old Sorrel Gelding
RICHARD PATE STABLES
In our February issue , we made an error in statin that Richard Pate is working a barn full of horses i Covington , Tennessee . As he personally pointed oul " I ’ ve moved enough — now everybody will think tha I ' ve made another move .” To set the record straighi he is in Cordova , Tennessee , where he has been fo some time . He tells us that he has started construe tion on a new stable that will be just outside Colliei ville , Tennessee and should be completed aroum September of this year . If all this sounds confusing , i it ! But anytime you ’ re in the Memphis-Cordova-Co lierville-Covington , West Tennessee area , just as ! where Dickie Pate ’ s barn is and you will find it witl ease .
Speaking of his stable , Dickie says the horse busi ness is really going great in his part of the country As a follow-up to the sale of EBONY ’ S OLD CHAR TER , he recently sold another top one : Mr . Franl
Parnell bought a two-year-old colt , EBONY ’ S BAR TENDER , that he will leave in training with Richard .
Also in our February issue we made mention of a two-year-old , GO BOY ’ S FURY , owned by Herbert Roberts of Irvine , Kentucky , and said that we would
say more later . Well , the time for " more later ” has come . Dickie says that this colt can really set up and walk out of his shoulders the right way . He sounds excited just talking about him . He also told us that one of the best fillies that he ’ s ever ridden is one by EBONY MASTERPIECE that is owned by Noland Smith of Brownsville , Tennessee . And so , as in past
years we have learned to do , we can expect great things from Richard Pate and his top two-year-olds in 1969 .
CHAMPION STABLES
As the Walking Horse business continues to expand , we see new stables cropping up all around . The Champion Stables in Harrison , Tennessee , just a few miles northeast of Chattanooga , is a new operation featuring Amateurs and Juveniles . They recently completed a twelve-stall facility and are now hard at work on twelve more stalls to complete their T-shaped barn .
Champion Stables is operated by Martin McNabb , Bobby Bell and H . K . Hatler , all of the Chattanooga area , who train and show their own horses . They currently have several horses in the barn that are owned by others who are interested in working and showing their own stock . Together they should manage to provide some real competition in Juvenile and Amateur classes for 1969 .
PROTEIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENT AVAILABLE IN BLOCK FORM
Stockade Top Hat Horse Block is a protein and mineral supplement in block form , formulated to be fed with grain and roughage to insure a balanced ration of protein , vitamins and minerals . The manufacturer , Harvest Brand , Inc ., Pittsburg , Kansas , points out that the block is scored so it can be divided into smaller blocks .
In the one-block form it is ideal for pasture use , while the smaller block fits stall feeding needs . When fed as directed , one block lasts each horse approximately 30 days - unless a horse is unusually deficient in nutrients . Then the horse will eat considerably
more until its nutrient needs level off .
Harvest Brand also manufactures a complete line of Stockade minerals , protein blocks , dried molasses products and specialty feed products .
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