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Upcoming events

Please join us at our next Club meeting!!!

Saturday, May 17th

Noon until … at the Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch

Directions
194 King’s Ranch Drive
Wilsonville, AL 35186

(205) 669-0790

From Birmingham, take 280 East and travel approximately 16 miles past the Summit shopping center. You will pass a WalMart on your right in Chelsea and a clock tower, also on the right.

Turn right onto Hwy 55. There will be a sign for the King’s Ranch at this turn. There will also be a small gas station and The White House, a wedding venue. After traveling about 4 ½ miles on Hwy 55, you will see a graveyard with a concrete block picnic pavilion and should prepare to…

Turn right onto Hwy 109. After traveling almost a mile on this road, you will turn left into the King’s Ranch property. There is big red sign at the entrance.

After entering the King’s Ranch property, follow the signs to Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch.

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Driving Trials     Summer 2008     

May 30 - 31, 2008

Liberty Classic United Horse Show, Tri-State Exhibition Center, Cleveland,
TN. Judge Gayle Lampe. Contact info Victor Stefanini, 865-681-7830,
vtstefanini@yahoo.com. This show has classes for Morgans, Arabs and Saddlebreds. This is
a nice facility with good stabling and a covered area.

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Valhalla Sizzler Driving Trial
Woodbury, Tennessee
May 10-11
Entries close April 30
Training and Preliminary levels
Jim or Jean Keathley (615) 563-2528 or jkeathley@hughes.net
Entry fee:$100.00
Stall fee: $95.00


Gayla Bluegrass CDE
Georgetown, Kentucky
May 16-18
Entries close May 2
Training, Preliminary, and Intermediate levels
Debbie Banfield (502) 863-5113
Entry fee: $125.00
Stall fee: $115.00


Carolina Carriage Club Driving Trial
Tryon, North Carolina
May 31-June 1
Entries close May 17
Training and Preliminary levels
Paul Nordan (828) 863-4777 or paulnordan@alltel.net
Entry fee: $130.00
Stall fee: $125.00



Carriage Classic in the Pines
Pinehurst, North Carolina
June 7-8
Entries close May 15
Linda Long (910) 692-0973 or llong6@nc.rr.com
Entry fee: $15.00 per class
Stall fee: $25.00 per stall per night


Cannon Carriage Classic
Woodbury, Tennessee
* Not listed in ADS Omnibus (until July through December issue is published) but this is a pleasure show which is always held the last weekend in August. See contact information above (for the Sizzler Driving Trial).



 

Farm News

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Silverstone Morgans, January 2008

Jim and I had a lovely time at the Pot Luck dinner held at Carol and Ray Potts on the 30th.
of December. We look forward to this meeting every year. We are not always able to attend
the different events put on by the Club during the year but this meeting is a great way for
us to renew old friendships and start new ones.
We have come to a hard decision, we are curtailing our breeding program here at
Silverstone. We have several of our proven younger broodmares for sale at reasonable
prices, these mares can be bought open or can come with a breeding to our stallions. We
are expecting one foal this year out of Nemours Noblelea, she is in foal to our younger
stallion Silverstone Mountain Ash. We have several youngsters that are also for sale,
these are all by our senior stallion CW's Silver Ash.
Wishing everyone a Healthful and Happy 2008 from us at Silverstone
Anne & Jim Canavan    Jan 2008

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I found a brochure about Gaineville, Al., and called the archivist who has presented tours
for years there. Yes, Woodbury is buried there and she ( or was it Anne) about the
individual who purchased him. Gainesville ( on the Al. River) was a thriving, very
prosperous community in the mid 1800s and fine horse flesh was indeed sought after for the
fine stables and racing interests. (Miss Kitty) Kathryn Harrison has promised to send me
materials and if there is interest it would be fun to visit this historic community and
speak with some of t he family members who have been involved with horses there for
generations.

Submitted by Bettye Benjamen, Jan 2008

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