1967-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1967 November Voice RS | Page 6

The Old Reliable” ... In the Walking Horse busi­
ness this means only one thing - the Murray Farm
Sale. The term ''old” is significant since they have
held two sales a year since 1940. The term "reliable”
is also significant and represents the background and
continued integrity of the sale. Since Jimmy Joe Mur-
ray founded the sale twenty-seven years ago, it has
een owned by two different individuals and, in 1964,
was purchased by S. W. Beech of Lewisburg, Tennes­
see and Pete Yokley of Pulaski, Tennessee. Riding the
creht of current Walking Horse popularity, the Murray
arm Sales of recent years have broken all records
°r horses, prices and interest.
** is interesting sometimes to compare with the
past, and we have uncovered an article that appeared
\infroSOL£hern newsPaPer in 1942 that refers to the
would r ^ai+m ^a*e tbat year- We thought our readers
would find it interesting.
REMEMBER
BACK
WHEN
“ Buyers From 30 States To Attend Walking
Horse Sale At Murray Farm
Some 225 aristocrats of the renowned Tennes­
see Walking Horse breed are expected to lure
buyers from 30 states to the big auction at Mur­
ray Farm this week.
Beginning time will be 10:30 and J. J. Murray
of Murray Farms means just that minute. We
arrived 3 minutes late a couple of years back
at a Murray sale and two horses had been sold.
Among the lots are service stallions, brood
mares, riding mares and geldings in training,
yearlings, and sucklings with their dams. Ac­
cording to pictures and pedigrees in the deluxe
catalogue, the offerings represent a good class
of this popular breed which has grown from lo­
cal to national significance in the last five years.
Jimmie Joe Murray expects Western buyers
to be the largest element. "Walking Horses,”
says he, "are being bought in large numbers in
such Western and Middle Western states as
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and there’s where I
expect the largest buying to come from.”
"As to what type horses I expect to sell
best,” continued Murray, "breeding stock and
pleasure horses will be in most demand, I be­
lieve.”
Requests for catalogues have come from 46
states and buyers from as many as 30 states
may attend. A tent 210 feet long will house the
sale.
Other leading breeders and dealers are con­
signing animals to this vendue. Among them
are Parks & Montgomery, Crieve Hall Farm,
C. W. Evins
Kempkau,
Lem
Motlow,
J- T- Tarmer
T a Stammer,
Farms,
Steve
Hill,
Ja^eS SKns J- M- Wilkerson, Jr., and such
Bailey Eva
&g L D Rouse 0f Montgom-
0ut-of-stare
gwain of Tuscaloosa, Ala., W. A
er>, and M. •
and Pancoast Hotel, Miami
Sams, AUieno,
BiachTiar,rst time, the catalogue plays up the
Jg“
ot many ot the
, ■ „ hark
to modern
times, it is a horses
contrast
to
Switching
a hundred
seventy-three
were
note that
recent Murray Farm Sale.
'“Sales of today are much the same as the "old
• e” sales. There are more horses, higher prices
MURRAY
FARM SALE
MAINTAINS
11 YEAR
TRADITION
and more widespread interest, but the nostalgia of
Middle Tennessee remains the same and true Ten­
nessee Walking Horse fans don’t really feel the year
has been complete unless they have been to the
Murray Farm Sale.
year me saie matured volume, n not mgn
prices. There were a lot of top horses, especially
breed stock, that went through the sale. Some were
notably "no-saled,” including PIDDLEY, who was
knocked off at $11,500 and owner Dr. W. D. Jones
decided to take him back home. Another top-dollar
stud was MIDNIGHT IKE, who was no-saled at $27,-
by owner Claude Brown who figured he could
ma e more than that next year in stud fees alone,
everal horses went through the sale that brought
op doliar induing LOVE OF GLORY, purchased
oy tfetty Chapman and Jane Gray Bolt of Williams-
b agent for Dic-Bob Stables of
Auburndale, Florida.
oMn?,?
SQUIRREL was probably the talk
Durrha«!L%TkiS flne black three-year-old stallion was
Cdo £ fr°m Brooks Byron by R. D. Keene of Or-
S10 000
for a figure reported to be close to
a suhstiH,?6 W«S not in tbe catalog but was sold as
EYTRFF’ q ^ u /^!?^06 Brandon refused sale of MON-
this a?p
for
which was wise, as
year for RrfoidlngT Should be a toP winner again next
year lor Hickory Hill Farms.
consignednbvrRhuhammer was JET’S COMMANDER,
ana and n ^ ?obert E. Snoddy of Bloomington, Indi
It “s aT^S6d by James Rowland for $3,600.
hundred horsed end^f~the-year sale with almost six
norses being put up for sale.
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