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September, 1962
Celebration Story
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does.” No greater tribute could come
to a girl from another girl.
Reserve Championship of the
World in this 18-year-old Juvenile
Class went to Baron de Bastrop, a
great horse with a magnificent rec­
ord, ridden with perfect action in
the saddle by Diane Gamier, daugh­
ter of Dr. and Mrs. W. V. Gamier of
Bastrop, La. They last Christmas
mourned the death of their 1954
Grand Champion of the World
(White Star) —the only white horse
ever to -win highest honors at the
Celebration. Diane has been a Cele­
bration veteran for years.
The Texas breakthrough for three
World’s Championship also had a
blend of Arkansas in its colors. Both
Mason's horse and Doodles’ horse
have been trained by Wallace Brand­
on of Little Rock—now listed on the
program as Mason & Thompson
Stables. It is understood this new
stable will be located “somewhere in
Texas” which is admittedly a rather
vague statement. Brandon has a re­
markable record in training three of
the last four horses to win the
World’s Championship for Owner-
Amateur Riders 50 Years and Over.
The Voice believes the young folks
are more important in this world
than the old folks—so we were not
too excited when Doug Woolaver’s
Cotton Queen Go Boy became
the World’s Junior Walking Horse
Champion in the Friday night finale.
It was expected by everyone who
knows what this horse did last year
(Two-Year-Old World’s Champion)
and may do next year as a four-year-
old. He is one of the great horses of
this decade ridden by one of the
world's great natural riders of all
time, a born-in-the-saddle-son of Giles
County, Tenn.
In this fine class, surely one of
the best ever for die Junior World’s
Championship Stakes, the Reserve
Championship of the World went to
Sun’s Delight, with stubby, coura­
geous Neal Branscum riding for A. E.
Dean, Christiana, Tenn. Sun's De­
light’s ride projected Branscum into
the picture as one of the great trainer-
riders of the future. He made this
event very close against what is be­
lieved to be the best 3-year-old Ten­
nessee Walking horse exhibited in
several years.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Stake night on Saturday is sup­
posed to be a step-by-step re-run of
the preliminaries and it happens so
most of the time—but Murfreesboro’s
Sam Paschal on Ebony Masterpiece-
owned by Building Contractor Billy
Hale of Gallatin and Mrs. Hale—re­
wrote the script this year. This “brav­
est rider in the saddle” out-fought one
of the greatest young riders of these
times who was on the rugged, proved
World’s Champion of 1960—Mack
K's Handshaker.
And those thousands in the stands
who were against Paschal a year ago—
when he fought to win with Beloved
Belinda despite boot-trouble, shoe-
trouble—this time were cheering this
great trainer. His season started with
a seriouness illness, and he was still a
paleface Saturday night in his “finest
hour.”
Horse Injured at Age Two
Paschal five years ago won on Set­
ting Sun. He did it again Saturday
night on a horse that was so injured
as a two-year-old with a bowed
tendon that he could not even take
training at age three—and whose show
training was completed only last
year. Starting after the 1961 Cele­
bration Paschal drove Masterpiece to
22 blue ribbons—to prove on the win­
ter circuit that Masterpiece could
make it at the Celebration. He picked
up 11 more blues during the season.
Handshaker—1960 champion set for
an unprecedented comeback after a
year out for stallion service—tried
something that probably will not be
tried again by a champion. Celebra­
tion titles are just too competitive for
such an effort to succeed.
Fate had already crowned Doug­
las Wolaver with the Junior Cham­
pionship of the World—on Cotton
Queen's Go Boy Friday night—so
naturally she turned her frown on
his effort to equal Winston Wiser’s
triumph of 1955 when he rode Go
Boy’s Shadow to both the Junior
Championship and the World's
Grand Championship. Nowadays
Champion Tennessee Walking Horses
have to do more than they did in
those days.
Others In Big Ten
Trailing those two great horses
ridden by great men were: third,
Golden Sundust, the five-year-old
darkhorse gelding, ridden by Wink
Groover for Owner W. P. Howell, Jr.,
Athens, Ala.; fourth, Society Playboy
(out last year with illness), ridden
by Neal Branscum for Winchester’s
Troy G. Arnold; fifth, Triple Threat,
the Circle T Ranch entry ridden by
Harold Kennedy (the second horse
in all Celebration history to be
trucked a long, long way and yet place
high in the stake—because travel and
other changes sap their strength) ;
sixth, Spirit of Midnight by Steve
Hill for Jack DeLay, Nashville;
seventh, Tom Dooley, ridden by Al­
ton Pierce for Jadaway Stables, At­
lanta, Ga.; eight, Grandson (A real
darkhorse), ridden by Boyd Hudgins
for Hudgins and Riley, Gainesville,
Ga., ninth, Black Gold, ridden by
Donald Paschal for Mr. and Mrs.
Hug Gillen, Chesapeake, O.; and
tenth, Shadow’s Headman, ridden by
Vic Thompson for Jay Engineering
Corp., Charlotte, N, C. All horses
were named in the Times-Gazette Big
Ten selections last Friday by Ben A.
Green except Grandson and Head­
man. One horse named, Go Boy’s
Big Talk, did not enter the stake al­
though eligible.
Carbon Copy Comes Through
Perfection's Carbon Copy, sired by
the 1959 World’s Champion Rodgers’
Perfection out of a broodmare with
no show record whatever, took the
brilliant World’s Championship Stake
for Two-Year-Olds. He appeared to
prove to spectators he may be the
greatest competitive Tennessee Walk­
ing Horse since Go Boy’s Shadow
and maybe even farther back into
Walker history. Second as in the pre­
liminary was Go Boy’s Black Jack
with Donald Paschal riding for Capt.
and Mrs. E. A. Self, Mobile. Go
Boy’s Black Dandy again ran third
and Sun Dust Perfection fifth, both
being owned by Dr. and Mrs. B. S.
Henry, Russellv