1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 February Voice | Page 21
H0RSE
FEBRUARY, 1964
TWH AROUND WORLD (Conld.)
GO BOY’S CHATTA BOX, a
fancy going blood bay has just
been purchased by Wallace Bran
don for Mr. Frank Mason, Dallas,
Texas. The Horse, formerly owned
by Dr. W. B. Cleveland of Collier
ville, Tennessee, is a coming three
stallion with as much prospects
for greatness as any horse showing
in this class. He was started and
has been trained by Phil Goodwin
at Alex Robinson Stables in Col
lierville, CHATTA BOX has been
started in his canter and all three
gaits are going well. He will be a
horse to watch throughout 1964.
Congratulations, “Mr. Frank”!
Paschal Sells Top Brood Mares
To California Breeder
Sam Paschal, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, has just sold six top
rated brood mares to Mr. Harold
Pyron of Whittaker, California. In
discussing the sale, Sam stated that
they are all bred to World Cham
pion Stallions and that one mare
was safe in foal to 1963 World’s
Grand Champion SUN’S DE
LIGHT. We wish much success to
Mr. Pyron, who plans an extensive
breeding program on his farm in
Idaho. With a start like this he is
sure to help the Walking Horse
breed in his part of the country.
George and Dorothy Holmes of
Walking H. Farm, Chardon, Ohio,
tell us of the death of their great
stallion, THE PENNSYLVANIAN:
“The great senior stallion of the
Walking “H” Farm was put to
sleep by Dr. Wiliam Holland on
January 31st at the request of
George Holmes. He was 21 years
old and had served the Holmes
family as show and pleasure horse
for seven years. He was dearly
loved by 15 year old Heather and
at her request he will be buried in
the center of the Walking “H”
Farm show ring.
He was by RHODA ALLEN
out of NANCY J and was discov
ered by Martin Burkholder and
brought north out of Alabama. He
was campaigned for many years by
Bob Ried for owner A. J. Hess of
Table Rock Farm, Wheeling, W.Va.
He was the most famous Walking
Horse in the northeast and won
more than a hundred blues in the
stiffest competition in that area.
He was a copper sorrel with two
white hind feet and a blaze face.
A small horse, just 15 hands, he
had a heart as big as his head and
spectators often thought that PEN
NY was a big powerful horse be
cause of his show ring presence.
He won repeatedly at Harrisburg,
Youngstown, Hickory, Waynes-
burg, Bedford, Wheeling, Charl
ton, and Mongantown. He was
courageous, fiery and true gaited
with blazing speed. Last summer
at 20 years of age, he was shown
six times by Heaiher Holmes,
when the regular Walking “H”
Farm show string was otherwise
occupied, and finished in the rib
bons every time. In 1961 at the age
of eighteen, he was the pleasure
Walking champion of Youngstown
and Chagrin Falls shows. He sired
reserve world champion filly
TENNESSEE GAL, and many
other colts. The Walking “H” Farm
has several of his colts in training.
Congratulations to seventeen-
year-old Betty Lee of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, whose twelve - year
dream came true Christmas morn
ing when she found a beautiful
roan filly, LYNN’S MERRY LEGS,
under her Christmas tree. Betty
started riding a neighbor’s pony
when she was four and seven years
later her parents bought a pleasure
Walker for her. She discovered
horse shows in 1960, placing fifth
in a pleasure class; and since that
time it has been her ambition to
own a good show horse. Now she
is the proud owner of a promising
filly that she intends to train her
self. Triumphant training to you,
Betty. We know that “blue” will
become you.
Bea Walker of Walker’s Tennes
see Walkers, Orangevale, Califor
nia, gives us a Western point of
view in endorsing the article en
titled “Pleasure Class Promotion,”
written by J. B. Floyd of Denison,
Texas, and appearing in the Octo
ber issue of the VOICE:
“I would urge everyone who is
remotely interested in the Walking
Horse BREED to re-read and think
about what Floyd says. Really
think about it. Doesn’t it strike a
chord deep down inside? Can you
just feel a red light, (or at least a
yellow caution light?)
Pleasure horse people need the
show horses and vice versa. We all
know this or at least give it lip
serivce. But what the BREED
needs is new blood . . . new walk
ing horse owners . . . diversifica
tion! Trail horses, gymkana, stock
horses. I have seen these horses
work stock and know they have a
potential in this field that hasn’t
been tapped.
I was boarding a gymkana horse
for a young woman that had ridden
all her life and really knew horses.
One day when we were riding to
gether she mentioned that it was
too bad Tennessee Walkers couldn’t
run. I couldn’t believe I had heard
her right! She really thought that
they couldn’t extend the “rocking
chair” canter. Knowing a picture is
worth a thousand words, I asked,
“You w anta race?” Ordinarily I
wouldn’t think of such a thing, but
a fallacy about the BREED was at
stake. We had our race. I wouldn’t
say which horse won; that’s not
important. The important point is
the Walking Horse BREED can do!
It just needs direction.
Right now is the time, the stage
is set, the show horse is here on
stage. But before he can really com
mence, we must think of all the
“stage hands,” waiting in the wings,
that will be needed before the
BREED can give a perfect per
formance! The supporting players,
the electricians, the prop handlers,
the director, the prompter, the pro
ducers—all these jobs must be
filled. (Trail horses, gymkana,
pleasure, stock work, jumping.)
When these jobs are filled and the
public has viewed the show, the
critics are bound to acclaim the
Tennessee Walking Horse BREED
as the most diversified, “doing”
horse in America.”
Another Western reader asks a
question that indicates her endorse
ment of Mr. Floyd’s article also.
Mrs. R. B. Lawton of 5 Horse
Ranch, Placerville, California, in-
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