1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 November Voice | Page 29

WILL THE
ITH
please park in
By Betty Bledsoe
9144 Macon Rd., Cordova, Tenn.
For people whose minds have
reached the saturation point in lo­
cal, state, and national politics for
so many weeks now, it was with
real pleasure that we turned our
attention to a horse show, last Sa­
turday. The daytime-nitetime-all
division event was staged under
the competent direction of the
Navy’s Captain Robert H. Wood.
A record-breaking crowd of 3,-
000 watched 175 horses compete in
the 1964 Fall Naval Air Station
Horseshow at Memphis, Saturday,
October 24. Mrs. Penn Mohon of
Covington, 1963 Mid-South Ama­
teur Champion won the Amateur
class on SUN DUST XMAS BELL.
MARK OF GO BOY, owned and
ridden by Kathryn Bailey of Lam­
bert, Mississippi, won the Juve­
nile Amateur TWH class. SUN’S
BEAUTY, owned by Nolan Smith
of Brownsville and ridden by John
Stroud took top honors in the Two-
Year-Old Class and best Junior
Horse was SUN’S PLAYBOY,
shown by Ted Baier for Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Cherry, Humboldt. Ted
also carried home a blue in the
stake on the Scruggs and Baier
entry, CHANCE’S PLAYBOY.
October has been a good month
for visitin’, and as usual, the pro­
clamations are big, big, big! Every
trainer has a cornin’ two-year-old
that’s the “loosest colt he ever
broke,” all of last season’s colts and
fillies have developed a real rollin’
canter, and the amateur horses are
gathering steam for what will be
their biggest year in 1965.
Phil and Flo Goodwin dropped
in on a recent trip up from Lam­
bert, Mississippi where Phil is now
training for Bailey Stables. John
Stroud hung up his spurs long
enough to pay us a call, and regale
NOVEMBER, 1964
all within earshot with his fantas­
tic hoss tales.
Mr. Rube Scott from Grand
Junction, brought some of his
Eastern field trial enthusiasts by
one Sunday afternoon to show
the perfect breed for a man who
sits in the saddle all day. And cer­
tainly two of the most delightful
guests we’ve had in a long time,
were the charming couple who
were our box-neighbors at the
Celebration, Mr. and Mrs. Z. M.
Porter of Clarksville, Tennessee.
Mr. Porter’s story is so interest­
ing, I’d like to share it with you.
Except for the war years, he has
never missed a Celebration, and in
the very first one, on the old Shel-
byville Ball Field, he exhibited his
trick horse SPARKY in an imper­
sonation of JIM KEY. a famous
trick horse that figured prominent­
ly in the colorful history of the
town. After the war, Mr. Porter
was engaged in the active training
of both gaited and walking horses
in Pennsylvania. During this per­
iod he exhibited over a six state
area and helped lay the ground­
work for the now famous Devon
Show in Philadelphia. A thousand
dollar stake was a big one in those
days and this championship was
his \yith the gelding, SURPRISE
ALLEN. He had another WILSON
ALLEN sired horse, a mare by the
name of PEGGY WILSON that
took more mare events than we can
tell about.
Though he’s now engaged in the
manufacture of ornamental iron­
works, Mr. Porter has never lost
his horse fever and on the rolling
acres of his Castle Troy Farm is
raising registered palominos sired
by MERRY BOY’S SUN GOLD.
^Winter is almost here and that
spells a lot of hard work for sta­
bles all over the country. I hope
you Mid-South horsemen will park
in long enough to drop me a line
about v/hat’s new in your corner
of the Tennessee Walking Horse
world.
CAIRO, GEORGIA HORSE SHOW
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7ih
One of the most outstanding
horse shows ever held in South
Georgia was the Novem ber 7th
show at Cairo, Georgia. In both
afternoon and evening perfor-
formances all classes were filled
and especially the Walking Horse
classes. There were fifteen horses
in the championship class which
was won by Boyd Hudgins of Ma­
con, Georgia — riding MIDNIGHT
SHADOW, owned by Mr. Fred Ma­
this of North Augusta, South Caro­
lina. In all there were around two-
hundred horses on the grounds and
the twenty-five classes were all
well filled. Roy Davis of Calhoun,
Georgia tied the Walking Horses
and Temple Stephenson of Atlanta
tied the Gaited and Miscellaneous
Classes and both judges turned in
a superb job and everyone went
away well pleased with the show
as a whole. Mr. E. B. Harrison, who
was the chairman, did an outstand­
ing job as well as other members
of his committee. O. R. Wall of
Columbia, South Carolina did his
usual fine job of managing and em­
ceeing. There were twenty-five
English Pleasure Horses in the
class won by Mrs. Theodore Lou­
don of Columbus, Georgia, riding
JULEP’S GIN FIZZ. The Western
Pleasure with fifteen horses in the
class won by Sharon Watson of
Tallahassee, Florida, was an out­
standing class mostly quarter
horses. Another large class was
the English Equitation with
twenty-two entries won by Ruth
Lowe of GlidewelTs Riverside Sta­
bles of Macon, Georgia, riding
FLAMING ACE. Five Gaited Ama­
teur was won by Sharon Harrison
riding KING “B.” Amateur Walk­
ing Championship was taken by
Pat Puckett of the Puckett Sta­
bles, Shellman, Georgia, riding GO
BOY’S HIGH MACK. Bobby Poe
of Macon, Georgia carried off the
blue in the Walking Stallion and
Gelding Class riding PLEASURE’S
KNIGHT. Easter Posey won the
Parade Class on her BOURBON’S
GOLDEN TREASURE and Carl
Jenkins picked up the blue in the
Roadster Class with Bob Jenkins
driving IMPACT.
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