1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 February Voice

TENNESSEE VALUING H'^ iRSE FEBRUARY, 1964 a COVER PHOTO TENNESSEE WALKING H MRSE A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE BREED VOL. 2 FEBRUARY, 1964 NO. 12 PUBLISHED BY VOICE Publishing Company GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES P. 0. Box 3054 Chattanooga, Tennessee EDITORIAL OFFICES P. 0. Box 96 Shelbyville, Tennessee STAFF BEN A. GREEN........................................ .......................... Editor MARY FRANCES GREEN...............................................Editorial Assistant WANDA LEDFORD DAVIS.........................................Circulation Manager BARBARA M. FRIEND....................... Editorial Assistant GLORIA L. SPENCER............ ........ Reader Service Manager WALTER WILLIAMS.................................................. Art Director ASSOCIATE EDITORS FRED E. FRIEND C. BRUCE SPENCER CONTRIBUTING EDITORS DR. M. E. ENSMINGER VIRGINIA LAMB BILLY JOE ANN ESTESS HAROLD THACKER CHARLES GOLDSWIG ALETHA WIEHL BETTY BLEDSOE ELAINE THACKER SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES $4.00 per year — $10.00 three years. Single copies .50c per. Front Cover $250.00 — Back Cover $200.00 — Inside Covers $180.00 — Full page $125.00 — All other space $5.00 per column inch — Color rates on request. PUBLISHED MONTHLY Postmasters: Form 3579 should be sent to Voice Publishing Company, P. 0. Box 3054, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2nd CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN. IN THIS ISSUE Cover Story ........................................................................................... p. 3 Betty Bledsoe ........................................ p. 8 Dr. Ensminger ....................................................................................... p. 14 Walking Florses Around World ............................................................ p. 18 Flarold and Elaine Thacker ................................................................. p. 20 Charlie Goldswig ................................................................................... p. 22 Billy Joe Ann Estess .............................................................................p. 29 Virginia Lamb ....................................................................................... p. 32 Profiles .......................................................................................................... p. 35 Professionals On Parade ...................................................................... p. 38 Aletha Wiehl ......................................................................................... p. 39 Stallion Directory.................................................................................... p. 43 Registrations .......................................................................................... p. 41 Trade Market .......................................................... ......... .....................p. 46 GRAND CHAMPION SUN'S DELIGHT BEGINS NEW CAREER AT HARLINSDALE FARM By Fred E. Friend When SUN’S DELIGHT im pressively won the World’s Grand Championship at the National Celebration, September 7, 1963, it was announced at once that he would be formally retired from competition in the show ring and placed in stallion service for the 1964 breeding season. This an nouncement was greeted with great enthusiasm by a host of ex perienced breeders who saw in this exceptional champion all the fineness of conformation and the natural ability under saddle de sirable in a horse. SUN’S DELIGHT is the crown ing achievement of a forty-five year program of selective breeding carried on by Mr. A. S. Dean , Route 7, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In many ways as a breeder, Mr. Dean has carried on the work of the master-breeder of the Ten nessee Walking Horse, the late Al bert M. Dement. As is apparent from the pedigree reproduced in this article, SUN’S DELIGHT is the product of a line of very ex ceptional dams. MERRY LEGS F-4 is the fourth dam. Mr. Dement bred her to GREY LAD to produce the outstanding mare, SNIP. When SNIP was then line-bred to LAST CHANCE, a real concentration of the blood of the legendary MERRY LEGS F-4 flowed through the veins of SNIP’S CHANCE. Because this line-breeding had been carried as far as is generally considered de sirable, Mr. Dean blended the po tent blood of WILSON’S ALLEN, (Continued on Page 12)

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