1967-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1967 December Voice | Page 43

their way to look up your President and tell him so
These people like our horses and, in my opinion
there is no more important place in this country to
show and to create a good impression.
Mr. Robert "Deacon” Doubleday of Syracuse, New
York, one of our top announcers, is a good friend of
the Walkers and always gives them a boost whenever
he can. He shared his job with Mr. Raymond Brooks-
Ward of London, England. Mr. Brooks-Ward and Mr.
Douglas Bunn, a jumper judge also from England,
became very interested in the Walking Horses. They
had several conversations with Mr. Charlie Bobo, who
judged the Walking Classes, regarding them, and Char­
lie is going to talk with the Tennessee Breeders’ As­
sociation in regard to doing something about this in­
terest. Incidentally, several horses have gone to Ber­
muda this summer and seem to be creating interest
there.
We have had two highly successful shows this past
month of October. Nothing happened to draw adverse
attention or criticism. There were people at each show
who were waiting for the slightest opportunity to
make trouble but we gave them no excuse or reason.
We should be very proud of our actions. After Wash­
ington, I am convinced that the vicious criticism of­
fered by some of our critics is beginning to react
against them and that if we continue to take care of
our horses and conduct ourselves like ladies and gen­
tlemen they will have nothing new to talk about, and
the same old story, repeated over and over again,
can get mighty tiresome.
The Walking Horse exhibitors wish to express their
thanks and appreciation to the Tennessee Walking
Horse Breeders’ Association and the American Walk­
ing Horse Association for their financial support of
these two shows. The Breeders’ Association sponsors
the Open Championships and the American Associ­
ation sponsors the Amateur Championships. The man­
agement of both shows is grateful for this support,
which is creating a real good atmosphere for our
horses.
I am going to mention a few of the outstanding
horses and if I overlook any, please understand that
I cannot remember them all. V. G. Gochneaur re­
placed FASHION TWO TWENTY with a big four-
year-old sorrel, MR. FTT. This horse has a tremend­
ous front end and should win many blues for Red.
At Harrisburg he won the Am ateur Stallion-Gelding,
the Amateur Stake and the Open Championship. J. D.
Stokely came up with a two-year-old, JIM DANDY’S
GO BOY, who has the back-end of an aged horse and
was spectacular in winning the two-year-old classes
at both Washington and Harrisburg. Carl Hengen
produced a good-looking Junior Horse to win the Jun­
ior Class and Junior Stake at Harrisburg and B.
MAJOR’S BOMBARDIER made an impressive appear­
ance in winning the Open Stake at Washington. Hea­
ther Holmes rode MR. MASTERFUL to a first in the
Stallion-Gelding at Harrisburg. A real good horse, and
Heather showed him every inch of the way for a well-
deserved win. We were very happy to see Mrs. Har­
riet Bothamly back in competition again. She is an
excellent rider and competitor, and she has a horse
who will demand attention, once they become accus­
tomed to each other. Mrs. Muriel Lee rode the always
dependable SOCIETY SOUVENIR to the Amateur
Championship at Washington and the Reserve at Har­
risburg. She also gave GO BOY’S REBEL O a splen­
did ride to win the Owners Class at Harrisburg.
December, 1967
This concludes a very lengthy report. The School
Committee will meet early in December and I will
get a brief report out before Christmas.
Cebern L. Lee
HORSE SHOW OFFICIALS
GET TRAINERS TOGETHER
An impromptu meeting of Professional Walking Horse
Trainers was held on Saturday morning during the
Montgomery Horse Show in an effort to get this most
important segment of the horse business together on
some of their mutual problems. The meeting was
called by Mr. H. O. Davis, and Mr. W. O. Crawford
officiated.
The initial announcement regarding the meeting was
made on Friday evening during the horse show and
a group of trainers was asked to meet in the center
of the ring. Without knowing the nature of the busi­
ness at hand, this group, plus other professional train­
ers, were invited to a breakfast meeting the follow­
ing morning.
We were not in attendance but have learned that
an effort is being made to organize a Professional
Walking Horse Trainers’ Association. Mr. Vic Thomp­
son and Mr. J. T. Leech were nominated to work on
a preliminary committee along with Mr. W. O. Craw­
ford to outline the Association and to determine what
the functions and aims of the Association should be.
Nothing was said regarding the requirements for
membership but we assume it is limited to profes­
sional Walking Horse trainers. They should have a
membership of well over a hundred people shortly.
It is our understanding that considerable discussion
was held regarding judging, showing procedure and
training techniques of Tennessee Walking Horses and
what an organization such as this could do to help
the situation.
We received no information regarding what rela­
tionship, if any, this organization would have with
the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ Association,
the American Horse Show Association, or any of the
other organizations that are concerned with Tennes­
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