SALE OF SHOWRING CHAMPIONS BIGGEST SUCCESS EVER
From the standpoint of prices , good horses and new customers , the 1968 Sale of Showring Champions was the best ever . In checking the final results with Mrs . Barbara June Wiggins , we learned that the total receipts were up approximately $ 80,000 over the previous year . This is a credit to everyone including buyers and sellers . It reflects the healthy future of the Walking Horse market and indicates that we are continuing to make progress .
This sale , perhaps more than any other , including the Murray Farm Sale , can be used as an indicator
of the market because there is a larger variety of prospective buyers . A lot of people from different parts of the United States can make only one trip to Middle Tennessee during the year and they prefer to come during the Celebration . While here they make whatever purchases fit into their personal program and the sales are the most logical place to do it . One thing that was predominant in the minds of a lot of
experienced bystanders at the 1968 Sale of Showring Champions was the fact that so many new faces were there . There were people who were buying good horses that we had never seen or heard of , which indicates that new markets are opening up . We are no longer " buying and selling from one another .”
Tops in the sale was GO BOY ’ S BRENDA LEE , a fine Junior mare that has an excellent show record . She was purchased by Mr . and Mrs . Barry Saunders
of Germantown , Tennessee for SI7,300 after a lengthy and frenzied round of bidding . She was considered one of the top horses to be auctioned in 1968 . Another impressive sale was that of BETTY ’ S MASTERPIECE , a fine black filly by EBONY that has great promise . She was consigned by Frank Parnell and was purchased for SI 1,200 by Mr . V . G . Gochneaur for Fashion Two Twenty Stables , Aurora , Ohio . Next in line was the popular TIGER BAY , one of a series of horses consigned by Harber & Cherry Stables . The fancy bay
stud brought $ 8,750 and was purchased by Wilson Brazelton of Nashville . TIGER LILLY did not go through the sale due to an injury . Some other topprice horses were : EBONY GO BOY , consigned by Steve Beech and purchased by Fashion Two Twenty for S5,600 ; SHADOW ’ S EPITOME G , consignedby Bud Seaton and purchased by Harry Hillier for $ 4,700 ; EBONY ' S MARCH WIND , consigned by S . W . Beech and purchased by Rene Arnaud for Audubon Stables , New Orleans , for $ 5,000 ; and MISSYSUN ’ S DELIGHT , a fine chestnut mare consigned by Bud Speight of Jackson , Tennessee and purchased by Dr . Harry Hill of Atlanta . These are just a few of the more than 350 horses that were sold during the week of September 3 at the Sale of Showring Champions .
You are reminded by Mr . S . W . Beech and Mr . Pete Yokley that their annual Fall Murray Farm Sale will be held October 15 through 18 at the farm in Lewisburg . We understand that they now have a full consignment of over six hundred horses and that buyers should write in early for room reservations and a catalog so they can make their plans on the horses they want to bid on . See you there !
TOPS IN THE SALE — Mr . and Mrs . Barry Saunders are pictured with trainer Neil Robinson as they proudly exhibit their new horse , GO BOY ' S BREN DA LEE .
HARD AT WORK — Auctioneer Eddie Bryant takes a needed rest as Pete Yokley gives instructions to his secretary . Herb McClain is hard at it as the sale continues to pick up momentum .
TIGER BAY FAN CLUB — Mr . Wilson Brazelton is pictured with TIGER BAY as trainer Bob Cherry and " Dee " Kilpatrick look proudly at the transaction . This fine bay stallion topped the sale of the family of TIGERS .
58 Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse