1966-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1966 October Voice RS | Page 6

!
When Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hardage of Millegcvillc,
Georgia, came to trainer Boyd Hudgins in the fall of
1963. their primary goal was to have their two year old
stallion broken and gaited for pleasure purposes. Boyd,
who had been working at the Fieldstonc Farms of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank M. Talbot in Macon, for a little over
a year, was in need of outside horses at the time and was
pleased to take this one even though he was not a show
horse.
In discussing his first impression of MAN OF
RHYTHM, Boyd will laugh and say that he has been
“one of those things”. He was hard to break and even
after almost eight months of work he was still hard to
handle and “would try to throw you”. The obvious ques­
tion after this remark was “why did you keep fooling
with him this long if he was destined for use as a pleasure
horse? “Well” . . . he says, “he sure wouldn’t have been
much pleasure the way he was, and besides . . . there was
something about this horse that 1 liked”.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardage. who point out that they are just
everyday working folks, take a lot of pride in their horse.
They have had to work at keeping him in training all this
time and did it on the strength of Boyd’s recommenda­
tions. After a few months of training, it became obvious
to them that they would not be able to ride him as a
pleasure horse and Boyd pointed out that he had the mak­
ings of a top show horse. So . . . they did the logical thing
and kept him in training on