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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.
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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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