1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 September Voice | Page 8

September, 1962
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Celebration Story
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TUESDAY NIGHT
Three-year-old Walking Stallions
take the Celebration’s spotlight to-
nighi at 7:SO p.m. but thousands of
throat-weary spectators will always re­
member what those Two-Year-Olds
did last night in one of the Big Show's
all-time great moments enacted by
horse colts under saddle. They will
also file in their minds the sight of
veteran Steve Hill piloting Five-Year-
Old Go Boy’s Little Mystery to the
Tennessee Walking Horse Mare
Championship of the World in one of
the best riding exhibitions ever staged
by this master of more than a quarter
century in the show saddle.
Also stacked on their growing host
of memories will be the recollection
of Louisiana’s W. T. Baynard taking
his stallion Tombstone to the Owner-
Amateur Stallion championship in
this class in a brilliant two-mount
duel with the hard-riding collegian
Fred Turner of Circle T Ranch on
his former World’s Champion Three-
Year-Old Shadow's Red Ace.
Paid Spectators
Out of all these picture-packed epi­
sodes at the Tuesday night show that
drew 8,547 spectators in official paid
admissions, the sharpest will be the
Two-Year-Old Stallion B Division
event that found Perfection’s Carbon
Copy (ridden by Joe Webb) living
up to his newspaper clippings with
a dramatic two-judge decision over
Go Boy’s Black Jack (Donald Paschal
up) in a two-horse workout to help
the judges fix their minds. The A
Division victory in this many-horsed
class went to Go Boy’s Black Dandy
ridden by George Witt for Dr. and
Mrs. B. S. Henry of Russellville, Ala.
Reserve honors went to Sun Dust Per­
fection with Bud Dunn up for Pine-
tree Farm also of Russellville, also
owned by Dr. and Mrs. Henry.
Tonight’s card presents that cver-
popular 15-18-year juvenile Walking
Pony class into the picture as the
fourth event, an Owner-Amateur on
Mares feature and the Four-Year-Old
Walking Gelding Class to climax the
"Walking” night and place in nomi­
nation one or more geldings for the
Grand Championship of the World
(to be determined Saturday) . The
gelding class is a preliminary to the
great event.
Steve Hill's masterful demonstra­
tion on Go Boy’s Little Mystery last
night for Owner W. C. Machines—
president of the Tampa Electric Co.
of Florida—came as no surprise to
Walking Horse followers who have
seen this horse stride to victory in
every showing this season—on the
heels of a tenth place in the 1961
Grand Championship Stake. Normally
this showing last night would project
the Hill-Mystery team into the big
stake event Saturday but it is believed
Hill will be astride a stallion—and
probably some other rider will be on
Little Mystery.
Duel of Great Riders
The Four-Year-Old Walking Mare
exhibition was a duel of men as well
as horses—with alltime great trainers
on many mounts. C. A. Bobo rode
Sun’s Spring Queen to reserve honors
for Davis & Bales of North Wilkes-
boro & Thomasville, N. C.; Donald
Paschal took third place on Sun’s Pa­
per Doll for Harris & Paschal of De­
catur, Ala., and Woodbury (Donald’s
home base) ; and the ever-popular de­
fending World’s Champion mare, Be­
loved Belinda, drew fourth place
honors with Sam Paschal up for Gene
Wild of Sarcoxie, Mo. Belinda wore
the crown as a Three-Year-Old in 1960
and also in 1961 for mares her age.
Shortly after this event came the
45-horse Owner-Amateur on Walking
Stallions event in which industrialist
Joe Bales of Thomasville, N. C. es­
caped serious injury in a fall from his
runaway mount—Sun Down-S—one of
the great amateur Walking Horses in
recent years. Bales fell in an attempt
to bring his horse to a halt after it
had circled the track twice, as other
riders cleared the way.
Bales Shaken Up By Fall
The fall took place at the northeast
turn as Bales leaned to reach for the
bridle after the horse refused to obey
the reins. The 225-pound Bales fell
heavily to the track but soon rose and
left the arena with assistance. The
riderless horse stopped moments after
Bales fell. It was learned later that
he suffered only a shakeup. At this
very same spot minutes earlier an am­
bulance had been called to take to
the hospital a local resident who be­
came ill from a chronic condition of
health. He is reported to be resting
well today.
Placing third in this event behind
Fred Turner was C. D. Maddox of
West, Miss, on his Mystery's Big Shot;
Kay McFarland of McFarland Farms,
Topeka, Kan., fourth on her The
Impala, and Joe Wright on Sun’s Cele­
bration fifth for Lone Star Stables of
Nacogdoches, Tex.
62 Two-Year-Old Stallions Show
Then came the greaL Two-Year-Old
Stallion event that the Walking Horse
World had truly been waiting for
since February reports told the breed
had never seen the equal of the 1962
horse colt crop. Originally there were
97 entries, and 62 showed in the two-
division exhibition. The registration
list was sliced in half to decide the
brackets.
This "luck of the draw” placed
George Witt and his mount in the A
Division that this veteran of many
Celebrations took over Bud Dunn on
Sun Dust Perfection. Finishin