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GEORGIA WALKING HORSE STABLE
PURCHASES "TALK OF THE TOWN”
"That’s not really the TALK OF THE TOWN ... is
it?” was the question we heard quite often at the re­
cent Georgia Walking Horse Classic in Chatsworth,
Georgia, as this all-time great Walking Horse came
into the ring carrying Steve Hill and the American
flag. It was, in fact, TALK OF THE TOWN, the three-
time Grand Champion of the World - a horse'that
many people thought was dead.
There is quite a story here - one that would take a
complete issue of the VOICE to tell in its completion.
We can, however, hit the high points and tell you
that TALK OF THE TOWN is still alive and kicking
at the ripe old age of twenty years. He has been in
seclusion for the past twelve years on the farm of Mr.
C. M. Jones of Calhoun, Georgia, who purchased him
shortly after his last Celebration victory in 1953.
He was recently purchased by Mr. Buford Chitwood
of Resaca, Georgia, a long-time Walking Horse en­
thusiast and owner of Chitwood Stables in Resaca.
Mr. Chitwood has been a friend of Mr. Jones for
the hnreo «,urecent Inquiry led to the purchase of
buvine-atum * 60 Questioned about his reasons for
that he felt ?uy”/ea,r"0^ Siding, Mr. Chitwood stated
OF THE towm t l0t °f pe°Ple had heard of TALK
he could rf?WN, but had never ^en him, and that
breed He ^ 0t t0 Emulate new interest in the
purposes aiJn*?8 to ,use the horse for promotional
otheTevente
eXhibit him at horse shows and
oUhis^o^seregardinS the recent activities
being under sadrfu6 f™anner in which he reacted to
who has been
aft.er twelve years. John Young,
Stables for fn bead trainer and manager of Chitwood
sponsibilitv of*™/?^8’ Was given the immediate re-
the stoiy y
"I?"klng with the horse. As John tells
real good Vnd We got bim out and clipped him up
other. He anno greomed him from one end to the
fat as he shnnMu to be in g°od health and was as
worked with m d
,ve been for a twenty-year-old. I
saddled him
? tittle bit on a line and then we
seem to mind
put an easY bit on him. He didn t
been handlpd
be activlty even though he hadn t
years.
very much for about ten or twelve
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