liked the horse and together they decided to bid on him as he went through the sale .
The bidding on SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND B . began rather slowly as trainer Neil Clark rode im m the sales tent . As he got loosened up , howevei , natural ability began to show to good advantage and , shortly thereafter , several notable Middle Tennessee trainers began to bid on him . Not to be out done , Dr . McDonald decided that he was going to take this horse home with him , and he did . SUN
GLO ’ S DIAMOND B . topped the sale for a young horse with a price of $ 7,200.00 . Needless to say , he is worth a whole lot more than that today .
In talking with Mose and Dr . McDonald about their horse , we were reminded of several interesting chapters in the story of SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND B . Mose reminded us that this horse was a feature part of the nation-wide television coverage that was given to the Murray Farm Sale that year . He also reminded us that it was then that they reserved the first front cover of the VOICE that was available , and they thought that April , 1968 would never get here .
The pi gress that has been made with this fine horse is a story in itself . He has been a perfect model of what a Tennessee Walking Horse should be . He ' -lands a hair over sixteen hands and is in perfect health . As a three-year-old he responded to his training very well , taking the canter and settling in his gaits exceptionally well . Shown four times as a three-year-old , he won four blues . He was shown six times as a junior horse in and around the Kentucky area , and won five blues and one reserve . SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND B . has no bad habits , is gentle and enthusiastic , easy to load and easy to haul , and has a lot of natural ability and plenty of motion in his gaits . In other words , he has proved to be a true “ diamond ” of the horse world .
Neither Mose Oppenheimer nor Dr . Frank Mc Donald care to make any predictions regarding their future plans for SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND B . They will bring him out as an age horse at the Cincinnati Horse Show early in May and will take a step-bystep attitude toward the Celebration for far as age horses go for this season , the Water^
mighty deep ; but if good breeding , natural abuit ' S stamina and show-horse ways can get the job do ^ they all better watch for SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND^ ’ He just might be standing there when the tide goes out .
Mose Oppenheimer has been in the horse busi ness for a long time . He has been training pro^ fessionally since 1958 and has done very well . His farm boasts 166 acres and a fine stable with twenty- nine stalls . At present he is working 22 horses with some good stock in just about every class Mose got started in the horse business like a lot of other people ; his natural interest led to activity and soon he was trying to learn all he could about Tennessee Walking Horses . He spent a lot of time around the Claude Brown Stables in Morehead , Kentucky in the fifties , and his first show horse was BLUE JAY 0 , which he showed with great success for four years . Since that time he has made and campaigned such horses as MIDNIGHT PRIDE M , CAPTAIN EDDIE II , GO BOY ’ S RAM BLER and GO BOY ’ S LINDA . Compared to other Walking Horse trainers , Mose is doing quite well . He is thirty-four years old , and he and his wife , Omega , and their three children thoroughly enjoy the horse business . Eleven-year-old Michael , ten- year-old Kathy and eight-year-old Danny all participate in the horse activity of their father . In addition to training show horses , Mose is standing GO BOY S MISTER MACK , a fine stallion owned by Oppenheimer and Locke .
Dr . Frank McDonald has been captured by the Walking Horse in much the same way as all of us . Several years ago he and the McDonalds moved to a farm outside New Castle . It wasn ’ t long before he decided to build a clinic near the farm and now it is almost one operation . He states that his patients come just as regularly as before and l () Ne to see the horses on pasture . We expect to see lot more about the horse activity of Dr . McDonald
in the future , and wish him and Mose Oppenheimer great success with SUN GLO ’ S DIAMOND B .
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