1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 May Voice | Page 12

untiring, is sheer joy. All of these Los Angeles County Fair Grounds,
things spell Tennessee Walking Pomona, California. Ro Swift serv­
Horse,” states Mrs. Merris, who is ed as show manager. The Pacific
the only one in her area who trail- Coast Walking Horse Association
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rides a Walking Horse. Mrs. Mer­ agreed to sponsor a stake class at
ris reports that she “took quite a the Celebration. It was announced
fa mniiiSK a s ,
ribbing” when she appeared at a that the Amateur Stake Class is
trail ride astride her Walking Mare, the class to count for points in
ALLENS CHOICE LADY, but that their point system for the year.
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after the thirty-mile ride, her mare
had won the respect and admira­
An interesting Walking Horse
tion of all. ALLENS CHOICE story began to unfold several years
LADY loads without hesitation in ago when Captain Robert Wood of
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any kind of conveyance, never re­ the United States Navy and his
fuses a creek or river crossing,
Roy Cline of Clinemont Stables, doesn’t mind traffic, never tires on family fell in love with the Ten­
Fayetteville, Tennessee, recom­ an up-hill climb, and doesn’t need nessee Walking Horse while at­
mends Walking Horses as a fam­ urging on those last miles at the tending the 1956 Southern Cham­
ily hobby. He, his wife, Mildred, end of the trail. Although Mrs. pionship Horse Show at Montgo­
and their twelve-year-old son, Merris says Iowa is not Walking mery, Alabama. After little coax­
fine
Andy commute to their farm, Horse country, it seems likely that ing, Captain Wood bought
Clinemont, three or four times a some of her fellow trail-riders may mare, CHOICE’S PARADER GAL,
day to enjoy their horses. They be converted to Walking Horses and won two ribbons on her the
have just completed a new train­ after seeing the merits of her Walk­ first year. His daughter, Wendy,
then nine years old, was learning
ing barn, and have eight horses in ing Mare.
to ride.
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training now under Don Hudson,
When orders came at the end of
who lives on the farm with his
Sixteen-year-old Bonnie Ann
wife, Sarah, and their four daugh­ Pyles of Chapel Hill, Tennessee, ex­ 1956 transferring Captain Wood to
ters. Mr. Cline reports that their pects her two-year-old black filly, the Western Pacific, arrangements
hobby seems to be growing into a HANDSHAKER’S TWIST, to twist were made with W. O. Crawford of
business, since they plan to accept our heads during the coming show Montgomery to have the mare kept
outside horses for training and ex­ season. This filly, sired by MACK at his noted Spur Ranch, near Ma­
pect to expand their breeding pro­ K’S HANDSHAKER and out of a rion, Alabama, where she was
gram. Mr. and Mrs. Cline began MIDNIGHT SUN mare is being bred to SPUR’S ROAN ALLEN. A
showing last year, and Andy will trained by Herman Warren of Co­ year later, while the Wood family
was still in Guam, a beautiful filly
join them in the show ring this lumbia, Tennessee.
was foaled and was named PARA-
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year on his new Walking Pony.
DER’S TRAVELING GAL. Three
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Adalyn Pomeroy of Orlando,
“Riding a Walking Horse for Florida, received “the thrill of a months later CHOICE’S PARA­
DER GAL died; but the little filly
pleasure is the best tranquilizer for lifetime” when her first colt was
a working man I know of,” writes foaled recently. She declared that grew, and when the Wood family
C. E. Bourne of Greenwood, South he has all the earmarks of his returned to Syracuse, New York,
in 1959, one of their first missions
Carolina. Mr. Bourne is sixty-eight famous ancestor, ROAN ALLEN.
was to pick up the fine year-old
years old and rides his Walking He arrived unassisted; and when
Horse from five to twenty miles he was one day old, posed like a chestnut filly. Wendy became her
every week. In addition to enjoy­ veteran. Everyone on the ranch constant companion.
The horse was placed with Billy
ing trail riding on his mare, SO­ where he was foaled agree that he
CIETY SUSAN, sired by SOCIETY is the biggest, most alert colt that Liles, trainer at Hy-Tyre Farms,
MAN, Mr. Bourne has raised three has ever been on the ranch. Sounds Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, for twelve
of her foals, two of which are show­ like the makings of a great stal­ months. Then she was trained by
Joe Gibbs in Martinsville, Virginia,
ing this year. Mr. Bourne says that lion!
after Captain Wood was trans­
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he wishes he had started with
Walking Horses forty years ago!
A joint meeting of the Tennessee ferred to Norfolk, Virginia.
In 1962 PARADER’S TRAVEL­
Walking Horse Exhibitors’ Asso­
Mrs. Miriam Merris of Humbo- ciation of California and the Paci­ ING GAL competed for top honors
cab, Iowa, feels that a great deal fic Coast Walking Horse Associa­ in Virginia and North Carolina
of stress should be placed on the tion was held April 18, at Downey, shows, and in 1963 Wendy Woods
Walking Horse as a pleasure California. The joint meeting was rode her in the Tennessee Walk­
mount. “To have a good mount, held to discuss the final plans for ing Horse Celebration at Shelby-
spirited yet gentle, swift of foot the California Celebration, held ville and in other big shows of
yet easy in the saddle, willing and May 22-24 at the Carnation Ring, the South.
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