1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 November Voice

pretty as they come. His deep bay coloring is accented by a long mane and tail and he is a show horse by the finest standards. By June Sun out of a Merry Boy mare, Bel Aire’s Merry Boy shows the best of his breeding on both sides. This should be the horse to bring the Bel Aire Stables to the forefront again in the Walking Horse business. He will probably start the 1966 season in the Florida Sunshine Circuit. TENNESSEE WALKERS IN TEXAS Bel Aire Stable Activity In addition to Bel Aire’s Merry Boy, this stable will have a string of top horses in almost every class next year. Bel Aire’s Second Son, a good two-year- old' this year, is taking shape as a growing colt and will be aiming for Junior honors in 1966. He is a big black stud that has been shown five times this year with excellent results. In the Mare class, they will have Bel Aire’s First Lady, a four-year-old sorrel mare that has the potential of becoming a top horse. In addition to the Junior horse already mentioned, they will have four other good three-year-olds includ ing three studs. None of these have been shown this year and will enter the ring next year for the first time. In the Amateur Classes, an event in which they have excelled for several years, both Roy and Bonnie Davis will be showing good stock. Roy will exhibit Mack K’s Go Getter and Bonnie will show Bel Aire’s Bonanza, a top horse by Silver Sultan out of a Merry Boy mare. Roy showed this horse to win the Amateur Stake in the Atlanta Horse Show this year. Young BILLY Davis, currently in school at Truett-McCon- nell College in Cleveland, Georgia, will also be re turning to the tanbark on his Bel Aire’s First Son and Bel Aire’s Toronado (a two-year-old) in 1966. Harold Kennedy, who came to work with Bel Aire Stables in February of this year, is obviously pleased with th e stock that he has lined up for the coming year. He is now breaking seven two-year-olds, in cluding one outstanding filly by The Impala out of a June Sun mare, that should give him some choice stock in the younger classes. In addition to the horses he is working for the Davis brothers, he also has horses in training for Dr. W. R. BROWN, Augusta, Georgia; Mr. ROY SHOEMAKER of Atlanta, whose daughter FRANCES is showing her Moonglow Go Girl in Juvenile and Ladies Amateur Classes; and Mr. CLAUDE WADE, who has Stella Dallas, an outstand ing aged mare, in training. Stella has been shown ten times this year by Roy Davis and she has cap tured some top ribbons including a third at the 1965 Celebration. The Bel Aire Stables operation encompasses al most every phase of the Walking Horse business, including breeding. They are standing the famous Son of Bel Aire and Midnight Sunny Jim, both horses with excellent blood lines and proven colts on the ground. They have a choice band of sixteen brood mares that have been bred to select stallions and, as usual, when spring comes to the rolling hills of North Georgia, a good crop of top young colts will be in line to wear the Bel Aire banner. It looks like another good year for this outstanding stable and with Bel Aire’s Merry Boy leading the way, they can’t miss extending their success. November, 1965 Mrs. Edith Puckett Route 4, Box 110 Tyler, Texas The Nacogdoches Horse Show is always one of the best in this part of the country, and this year’s show was no exception. First place winners in the Walking Horse Classes were: Amateur Walking Horses, Sun’s Celebration, owned by Lone Star Stables, Nacogdo ches, ridden by Joe Wright; Ladies Walking Horses, Major Mosby, owned by Mr. and Mrs. F. L. McGee of Texarkana, Ark., and ridden by Judith Holmes; Juvenile Walking Horses, Melody in Black, owned and ridden by Melissa Lyon of Houston; Walking Mares, Glory’s Day, owned by Cindy Clay of Tyler, ridden by G. W. "Dub” Ivins; Walking Stallions and Geldings, Grand Marshall, owned by Grand & Tins ley of Baton Rouge, ridden by Gaynell Tinsley; Two- Year-Old Walking Horses, Go Boy’s Baron, owned by Lone Star Stables of Nacogdoches, ridden by Bill Moore; Three-Year-Old Walking Horse Stake, Bomb’s Big Bang, owned by C. C. Phillips of Yazoo City, Miss., ridden by Dixie Weaver; Walking Horse Stake, Sun’s Celebration, owned by Lone Star Stables and ridden by Bill Moore; Juvenile Equitation — Walking Horse Seat — Special — Junior, Kay Pride, owned and ridden by Therese Bordelon, Lafayette, Louisi ana. Complete results will be found later in the VOICE. Last month we Pucketts decided to have an "arena warming” and small show to set the mood for our new arena. It was such a success we may decide to "re-warm” our arena every year. Our four classes were ably judged by Mr. OTIS CLARK of Tyler, and first place winners were: Walking Horse — Open, Merry’s Hells Bells, owned and ridden by John Den son of Tyler; Two-Year-Old Walking Horse, Tel-Star, owned and ridden by Jim Brent of Longview’; Gaited Horse under English Saddle, horse owned and ridden by Jack Wroten of Tyler; Western Saddle Horse, Danny Boy, owned and ridden by Mrs. A. J. Locke of Tyler. After the show and refreshments, Mr. Jim Newsom showed slides of the 1965 Tyler Gaited Horse Show. (Continued on page 8) 5

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