Trivia Archive 9

Donna Moore is arguably the greatest horsewoman to ever throw a leg over one of any breed. If not for Donna, there never would have been a Tom.

I agree wholeheartedly, Curbchain.............and Helen Crabtree was another great horsewoman.

curbchain wrote:

Donna Moore is arguably the greatest horsewoman to ever throw a leg over one of any breed. If not for Donna, there never would have been a Tom.

Is Donna Moore kin to Tom Moore. I remember him and Earl Teater as the great Saddlebread trainers in the 50's and 60's

Tom & Donna were husband & wife. Their daughters, Melissa & Melinda both train ASB's and have their own stables and are quite good horsewomen in thier own right. I went to high school with both of them.

Mr. C.A. Bobo

Miss Sundown R
1967 World Grand Champion Mare
Owned and bred by Dr. Raymond Renfrow
Fayetteville,N.C.
Charlie Bobo trainer


Footnote: Miss Sundown was sired by Sundown S who was by Sundust.
Sundown S was owned by Joe Bales Sr. Thomasville, N.C. Charlie Bobo
trained for Joe Bales for 10 years. Her damn was Stepp's Black Mariah.
Wade Stepp was a trainer for many years in Winston Salem, N.C. Sje
was purchased from Rex Watts who just happened to be one of the
Celebration judges in 1967. She was foaled on the Renfrow farm in
1963. Her trainer prior to C.A. was Razorblade! That's Razorblade
riding her in his thumbnail.
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You had inside info - she was a great mare. Joe Bales and my daddy were "bird dog" buddies. He owned some really fine stock.
When ya'll coming to town?

In 1959 while at Joe Bales Stables
Bobo won the 2 year old stake with Lu's Lu Lu
and the 3 year old Stake with Fair Warning
Joe Bales Jr. won the Juvenile Stake on Sun's Bottled In Bond
5 Blues at the Celebration was a big deal before they split all
the classe. It was a 5 night show then!

Razor,I worked for Rex Watts the summer when Mike's Mighty Man was a 2yr.old.Rex's brother Guy Watts was my brother's father-in-law and he got me started in the TWH breed.We lived in Ohio but I went to N.C. that summer and worked with Rex and a fella named Arnold I think was his name was the arse't trainer for Rex .I also worked for Red Gochneur at FTT off and on.Actually I worked for Red before it was F.T.T. back in the early 60's.

Senator 69

Rex Watts was a nice man. I had forgotten that he trained Mike's Mighty Man at one time.
Charlie Bobo was training him when he did all his Pony Class winning. I knew Pam Reid
who showed him forever. Later on when he was retired he stood at stud at George
Lenox's GLL Farm for a while. He had the best back end of any pony ever.

Razor

What happened to FTT Stables? I read somewhere that Red was in the cosmetic industry. I remember his son Greg showing in the early 1970's.

Dutch...........Senator69 will be better able to answer that one than I, but the cosmetic line was "Fashion Two-Twenty"..........hence, "Mr. FTT". I recall a post from this board's early days where someone remembered Mr. Gochneaur landing on the Celebration grounds in a helicopter.

Gochneaur also owned Standardbreds. I found this bit in an old Sports Illustrated magazine from 1971:

"Good humor man, a Meadow Skipper colt who is a full brother of Most Happy Fella, winner of pacing's Triple Crown in 1970, was sold for an alltime record of $210,000 at the Tattersalls Yearling Sale in Lexington, Ky. The previous record for a standardbred was $125,000, set in 1969 at Harrisburg. The bay colt was purchased by Vernon G. Gochneaur of Aurora, Ohio, who also topped the bidding at the Harrisburg Sales in September when he bought Pennsy Hanover, a Tar Heel colt, for $90,000."

dutch,Smitty is right it was Fashion Two Twenty Cosmetic Stables.Red was in the cosmetic business and then moved into the horse nutrition and grooming business.Red passed away several yrs. ago and Greg and his wife Lynn of Setting Sun's Apollo fame live in Texas and own a cosmetic company .I talk to Greg from time to time on FB.
Red named a lot of his horses after his company and it's products.Mr Fashion Two Twenty a black stud that passed away in the Cele. warm up ring and then Red bought a sorrel w/light m&t and named him Mr. FTT.he named one of the colts Judge's Choice after one of the products.Red knew how to get the most bang for his buck.Red was a good man and went first class with everything he did.There are probably some people on here that remember the wet bar and some of the parties at the Cele. barn.We always had a good time!

Hint on hoss: Strong Ky Bourbon

Got to be Wild Turkey at 101 Proof! That's Charlie Bobo. Don't know the gal.

That definately looks like Wild Turkey.
C.A. trained him for a long time.

Is that Debbie Church?

No, this young lady was from parts North, I think.....

Is that LoLo Miller?

You got it Senator!!!

Jimmy McConnell riding. Not sure about the horse. I'll have another cup or two of mud and take another look.

bum storm cloud

Bum's Storm Cloud & Jimmy McConnell is CORRECT!
Tim1000 scores again!