1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 December Voice | Page 34

WEST COAST WALKING HORSE ACTIVITY
ON THE INCREASE
The latest edition of "Noddings,” the official bulle­
tin of the TWHEA of California and the PCWHA,
indicates that the breed is on the upswing in inter­
est in the Far West. Editor Mrs. MARJORIE SUN­
DERLAND of Valley Center, California, writes of
their recent activities:
’’The 1965 California Walking Horse Futurity was
bigger than ever this year with 15 weanling colts
and 21 weanling fillies. Judge JOE BILES did an
excellent job with the pencil. The Weanling Champ­
ionship went to the first place weanling filly, Trooper’s
Ballerina, owned by Merrywood Farm; Reserve went
to the first place weanling colt. Pride's Golden Prince,
owned by Dr. and Mrs. STANLEY PHILLIPS.
Twelve yearling colts and 16 yearling fillies competed
for the Yearling Championship, which was presented
to the first place yearling colt, Shadow’s Dream Time
G, owned by the Sunderland Farms of Valley Center.
Reserve went to the second place yearling colt, Troop­
er’s Real McCoy, owned by the Merrywood Farm of
Redlands.
The Futurity Two-Year-Old Under Saddle had nine
beautiful youngsters competing for the blue, which
went to Stately’s Inkv Angel — which made the new
owners MARJORIE COLLO and PATRICIA REAMS
of Castro Valley very happy. Reserve went to Society
Showboy, owned by Merrywood Farm.
Complete results are elsewhere in this issue.
The Northern California Tennessee Walking Horse
Association held its third annual Open Horse Show
in Sacramento, October 16 and 17, 1965.
Mr. JACK EDWARDS of Salt Lake City, Utah, was
the judge, and is credited with a good job. The wea­
ther fluctuated from chilly with a brisk wind blowing
on Saturday to shirt-sleeve warm on Sunday. The
Walking Horse classes were well filled, but the western
and English classes were rather small.
Mr. and Mrs. DONALD SMITH, owners of the Blue
Mountain Ranch and members of the Southern Cali­
fornia Association, the TWHEA of California, were
winners of several classes, and two of our Southern
California exhibitors, R. A. WALLACE and RED HEN­
SON, walked away with quite a few trophies, too.
The Open Stake class was a fitting finish to a very
enjoyable two days with the Northern California peo­
ple making the southern visitors welcome, even though
a Southern California horse won the big stake class.
The work-out between the small, head-shaking, black
Go Boy’s Trooper, ridden by Red Hensen, and the
speedy, snow-white Silver Maker, ridden by L. DUNN,
was exciting and beautiful to watch. Both riders were
out to win and the crowd went wild cheering for their
favorite. Altogether, Mr. Jack Edwards proved him­
self a fair and capable judge.
A note of interest is the recent marriage of Mr.
LEONARD DUNN and CYNTHIA MORRIS. Married
on October 8, they were presented to the audience
during the show on Sunday, and Mrs. Dunn was given
a dozen red roses.
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Another item of note is the recent death of Mrs.
HARRIET CLARK, who passed away just before the
Cow Palace show. Our deepest sympathy is extended
to her husband, Mr. DWAIN CLARK, President of
our TWHEA of California. The Clarks have been
interested in Walking Horses for years and have had
several World Champions and top horses such as
Hill’s Perfection and Go Boy’s Royal Heir, both train­
ed and exhibited by STEVE HILL, Beech Grove, Tenn.
On October 24, a large group of riders on Walkers
met at BOB STERNS’ barn in Riverside, California.
After a nice ride through the river bottom and along
the hills, they returned to enjoy sack lunches under
the trees at Mr. and Mrs. N. WAHLSTROM’s ranch
where PAT PETERS keeps her horses.
This was the first Walkathon we have had for a
long time and really there should be more such rides
— promote good fellowship, etc.”
YANKEE CLIPPINGS
by Ann Louise Prescott
R. D. 1
Prescott, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania National Horse Show is history
now with Society Souvenir wearing the roses for owners
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. PALMER of Great Barrington,
Mass., with trainer BILL SLOAT showing. The classes
this year were filled with fine horses from New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. The end of this
show marked the end of the show season for most
of the Walking Horse exhibitors in this area.
ALBERT DAVIS of Hidden Springs Farm went home
to start breaking colts for next year. Albert says
that his barn is full and he is looking forward to hav­
ing a good show string for next year. We were sorry
to hear that RICHARD BELL, one of the owners of
Hidden Springs, was unable to show due to an in­
jury to his back.
Mr. C. W. KLINE of Boyertown, Pennsylvania, has
his horses with Albert and enjoyed a successful sea­
son. Sun’s Blue Dust, formerly owned by PENNY
MENDENHALL of Thomasville, North Carolina, is
doing quite a job for Mr. Kline.
Cumberland Valley Walking Horse Stables had a
successful year. CHARLIE MULLENS has kept JEFF
BRENER’S horses, Miss Treva and D. E. GoBoy, in
their usual winning ways. Jeff and Miss Treva did a
fine job to take second to Sun’s Spring Queen in the
Amateur Mare Class at Harrisburg.
Charlie had my horse, Jet’s King Bee, in great
shape for the Amateur Stud & Gelding Class. It was
a fine class and I was really pleased to get fourth
place. Charlie has been busy this season with quite
a few horses to work. Mr. and Mrs. WEAVER and
their daughter SHERRY have three horses in the
barn. Sherry and Souvenir’s Playboy are starting to
really work together, and by next year should be a
fine pair. Charlie said that after a busy year like
this one has been, he thinks that next year he will
just ride the rail and have the amateurs do all of
the showing. I wish him good luck if he tries it, but
I don’t know if his nerves will be able to stand it!
Sorry that I don’t have any more news, but will
try to have more next month. It seems that college
keeps me awfully busy! See you next month!
VOICE of the Tennessee Walking Horse