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12 August , 1962
Papa , Five Children Ride But Mama Tells How
Papa and Lhe five children ride but Mama runs the show at the N . C . Denton ’ s Blue Comet Farm near Anniston , Ala .
That ' s the way Dr . N . C . Denton put it in telling the Voice Editor abouL how daughter Ann coaxed him into getting her a riding horse five years ago . Ann is a sophomore in college ( Jacksonville State College ).
Now the Demons have a well-filled 15-stall barn , 15 other head in pasture , two stallions in service , and the whole family rides except Mrs . Denton who coaches one and all from the sidelines . The Doctor says Mrs . Denton is a great judge of horsemanship , knows horses with rare instinct and tells the whole family what to do and when .
Dr . Denton , an obstetrician , has found that horseback riding is great medicine , too . Good for anything from headache to heartache it seems . He agrees with a Voice subscriber who recently said horseback riding beats aspirin for that tired , headachy feeling .
Pictured in this magazine are Carter ( Buddy ) Denton , age 13 , on El Capitan — actually registered as Midnight Boy E ., a gelding age 8 ; and Mary Denton , 16 , on Denton ’ s Diamond Lil , registered as D . Diamond Lil .
Both youngsters have won many blue ribbons in Alabama and Georgia horse shows .
Ann , the oldest daughter , has not been riding in competition this season due to other activities .
At the Celebration Carter and Mary will ride their favorites , Dr . Denton will show on Go Boy ' s Handshaker , 4-year-old stallion , and 11-year-old Cynthia ( Cissy ) Denton will ride Sunny Jim . A fourth competitor for the family will be Mike Denton , age 8 , who has been competing this year on Sunni ' Jim also . Cissy has won many ribbons this year . Sunny Jim is a gelding , 11 years old .
Recently at Cedartown , Ga ., the Demons won two blues with D . Diamond Lil , Mary taking a juvenile class and her Daddy winning in the mare class .
The Blue Comet Farm is located 4 miles east of Anniston on U . S . Hhigway 76 — the post office address being- 15 Mark Woods Road . Young Bethel ( Hank ) Mayo of Boaz is trainer . The Dentons will stand Go Boy ’ s Handshaker to a few select mares in
1963 , also have in service Black Idol Again , by Son of Midnight .
The farm is named for Blue Comet , a 13-year-old mare who was “ retired ” from showing at the Anniston horse show last year at a formal ceremony .
An accident led to the death of a farm favorite , 24-year-old Secret Love , by Wilson ’ s Allen . The mare ran into a watering trough and broke a leg . She was due to foal within about two weeks . Dr . Denton gave the mare an anaesthetic — then conducted a Caesarian section in an effort to save the foal , before putting the mare permanently to sleep . This last resort failed as the foal did not live .
The doctor says everyone has great life on the 40-acre farm . It ’ s within a few minutes ride of home and his wife , the former Miss Jo Piebiak , runs the place . Everybody ’ s happy , including Lhe Tennessee Walking Horses who are loved and treated like best friends by " Mama Jo ” and all the brood .
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Jan Wright
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Jan swims like a trout in the pool in the Wright back yard , and plays on the piano given to her as a Christmas present by her father , Joe Wright . Her mother , Helen Crawford Wright , born at Center — 32 miles from Nacogdoches — maintains one of the most beautiful residential flower gardens in the Lone Star State .
Jan ’ s dad , who will ride Sun ’ s Celebration in the Shelbyville Celebration , is vice-president of the huge Texas Farm Products Co ., one of the nation ’ s largest independent feed and fertilizer manufacturing firms . Joe Wright superintends production at two giant plants , distribution through 3,500 mercantile outlets , transportation through 200 trucks and autos . He also has 300 registered Polled Herefords on the range and 30 Tennessee Walking Horses at the Lone Star Stables .
Joe was for two years chairman of the 23-year-old Nacogdoches Horse Show — a great 3-night show in a town of 15,000 population .
Both Daddy Joe and Mother Helen are wrapped up in their only child — Little Queen ] an — who has been virtually adopted in the minds of all the many thousands who have cheered her wins since she began to ride five seasons ago . Many predict that is the way it will be at the Celebration .
Loves To Groom A Horse
This letter is from a lovely person , you can tell by the tone . She is Ruth S . ( Mrs . A . D .) Cluiss , Rt . 2 , Box 246-E , Corpus Christi , Texas . Ordering a training book , she says : “ I hope the sections on grooming will be in gr eat detail because there are many of us who have never seen the mane braided . I particularly enjoy this part of the work as the horses are so infinitely patient — even our colts — when they are getting attention . We thoroughly enjoyed the Biography and look forward to each issue of the Voice . We wish you and Mrs . Green many years of successful publishing . ( Ruth , many thanks for everything . You express the love for the horse in ways that the horse understands . I am told a horse cannot understand words — except by repetition — but he or she can understand loving care from the start . BAG .)