September 2025 Issue

EAST COAST EQUESTRIAN September 2025 40 MARTIN AUCTIONEERS, INC. HORSE DRAWN COACHES, CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS, APPOINTMENTS & ANTIQUES Select 54thAnnual Fall Auction Members of: Carriage Association of America, American Driving Society, USEF Concord Coach Society, National & PA Auctioneers Associations “A PENNSYLVANIA AUCTION COMPANY WITH A GLOBAL REACH” LIKE US ON FACEBOOK PA-AY-000144L A full serviceAuction Company Specializing in the Marketing & Dispersal of Commercial & Residential Real Estate, Antiques, Personal Property & LiquidationAuctions thoughout North America. Paul Z. Martin, Jr. 12 N. Railroad Avenue  P.O. Box 99  New Holland, PA 17557 Phone: (717) 354-6671  Fax: (717) 354-8248 www.martinauctioneers.com | email: info@martinauctioneers.com Martin AUCTIONEER, INC. Friday, October 17, 2025, 9AM PreviewThurs. Oct. 16, 10am-6pm Lebanon Fairgrounds Expo Center, Lebanon, PA 17402 Accepting a limited number of good quality consignments. For buyer’s premium information, large photo gallery, terms and conditions, for more information, call 717-354-6671. (Note: we have limited office hours) or email martinauctioneers@frontiernet.net Visit our website: www.martinauctioneers.com • Limited Amount of Quality Consignments will be Accepted • Coaches, Carriages, Sleighs - Good Quality, Usable Condition • Equine & Carriage Industry related items to include horse and pony harness, livery and appointments • Most Carriages with Lamps (Lamps will be Sold Separately) • For your consignments to be accepted for our live auction or online auction, we must receive multiple photos and information ASAP. Please call our office or email us at martinauctioneers@frontiernet.net to consign • Martin Auctioneers have the right of refusal of accepting any items. Please check www.martinauctioneers.com for auction updates, terms & conditions, & large photo gallery via Auction Zip ID#1891 • All Vehicles and Items Sold “As Is, Where Is.” Purchaser must understand he/she is. Buying property entirely upon his/her own examination and and opinion • Buyer’s Premium & Sales Tax Will Be Applied. • Auction will include: Horse Drawn Carriages, Horse/Pony Wagons and Sleighs, Marathon 2-and4- wheeled Carriages, Coach and Carriage Lamps, Holly Whips, Coach Horns, Livery, Top Hats, Ladies Driving Hats, Stable Fixtures, Good Quality Books, Collectibles and Antiques. This is only a short listing at time of printing. We will continue to receive and accept consignments of horse drawn vehicles until 3:00 PM Thursday, October 16th PLEASE REGISTER WITH THE OFFICE BEFORE DELIVERING TO AUCTION SITE. Consignment Deadline for Online Auction Bidding is Friday, August 22 We will continue to take additional (non-online) consignments by contacting our office. First come basis and quality of carriages and appointments. Late consignments will be at the discretion of the auction company. This Auction will offer approximately 150+ carriages and sleighs. LIVE IN-PERSON on location starts 9:00 AM EDT ONLINE (webcast) begins at 11:00 AM EDT Non-online vehicles & quality appointments will be sold beginning at 9:00 AM www.martinauctioneers.hibid.com Absentee & limited phone bids for qualified buyers The Directory Horse & Pet Cremation EmergencyServiceAvailable Harness/Tack/Leather Repair Horse Stalls Trailers Trailers Manure Removal kevin.bomgardner@aol.com Manure Composting For more information about advertising in The Directory please call (717) 509-9800. Reach Over 38,000 Horse Owners! EAST COAST EQUESTRIAN July/August 2024 Pag e 37 Remembering Accom plished Western Horseman, Terry Helde r did not have time to record points or create an album afterward; it was back to work on Monday followed by riding in the evening to prepare for arduous weekends. We practiced every discipline from showmanship to gaming in almost any weather, like the post- man delivering mail. With jeans too tight and a stiff upper lip, sometimes I was scared as hell. What was important were the moments engraved in my heart. It is no secret that the year I first came to Evergreen, around 1986, was indeed a blessing. Expe- riences and events since then have molded who I am today. I went from being the so-called English rider who couldn’t maintain her seat on a black and white tobiano, Vicki, who jiggled like an angry rattlesnake, to a woman who learned to stick a saddle on a horse named Eyes a Mighty Goer, who pivoted in fear simply from a sad- dle pad hanging on a fence. There is no need to mention my awards or the fact that the one yea r I did succeed to make top twent y, APHA decided not to gift belt buc kl es. Instead, I won an engraved l ead glass, a first-place relic tha t i s stored in my china closet, v is ible to this day. The award is a rem i nder of the splendid year, the fri e nd- ships, and bonds we made , l asting decades that I shall never f or get. Even after 12-hour p lu s days, exhausting their skills to fit a rid- er to a horse, Peg and Ter ry still opened the doors and gath e red us around their Lazy Susa n to laugh and converse. But t h at is not what I treasure most. Fr om a mother’s perspective, th e high point of the last decades w a s the example they both provid e d, the guidance when my daugh te r, J.J., most needed it, and a safe t y net of dedication, determinat io n, and hard work. For this there ar e no words. The awards and ac c om- plishments of Hobbys Ro a n Dee Voo and EF Southern Bel le will forever be stalled in our h e arts. The horses filled a void, t a ught valuable lessons that adhe r ed to a young girl, and helped her create her own qualities of determina- tion and responsibility. We will be forever grateful for your gifts, your line of pres- tigious horses, and the character you molded, along with the Paint Alternative Competition points, Ranch Horse championships, Ex- treme Trail and Reining blue rib- bons, and 4-H titles, plus County, District and State trophies, just to name a few. I love every colossal and pocket-sized memory, even if it was forgetting a pattern in the middle of a class, or dress- ing Rhya for her angel routine, or standing on EF Southern Belle cracking a whip. Winning does not matter, it has been the journey! I was a disaster as a client, who haphazardly collected points and pictures. It was more about restoring J.J.’s trust and faith in herself. The hobby, for J.J., instilled the qualities that make her an incredible woman today. No mother could be more appreciative. Although the horses have transferred to new owners, I know they will continue to instill gifts beyond imagination because of Peg and Terry Helder. Forever grateful for the blessing of memories and his countless gifts, Terry Helder w ill be forever missed in the horse world and our hearts. And to his wife Peg, of 51 years. 24-7. S ide- by-side. Trot-by-trot, you care d for us and our horses, and tha nk you hardly seems enough. M ay she find the strength from his legacy to move forward. Alicia Stephens Martin is au- thor of the Spurred to … trilo gy, Private Mom and her latest n ov- el, The Silver Cowgirls. All w ere influenced by her love of hors es and experiences through deca des with the Helders. A sequel, Th e Silver Cowgirls Ride Again, i s scheduled for Fall 2024. (Continued from page 8) Don't Miss the HUGE September issue! 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