1968-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1968 November Voice RS | Page 19

for National Horse Show in N. Y.”
Margaret L. Warden had several
feature stories about this event and
news surrounding the purchase of
Walking Horses by Paul Whiteman,
the orchestra leader. And so, as the
story unfolded and the results came
back to Middle Tennessee, everyone
associated with the breed was justly
proud of the Tennessee Walking
Horset To enhance the situation the
Breeders' Association ran a full-page
advertisement in the New York
Times extolling the virtues of the
breed.
But alas . . . times have changed.
In 1939 the Tennessee Walking
Horse was a threat to no one as a
show horse. As the high-hat society
of the Gotham City sat along the
rail on that fateful night in Novem­
ber almost thirty years ago and
watched the easy gait and the nod­
ding head of those "farm horses
from down south," no one dreamed
that eventually that nodding head
and that easy gait would capture
the heart of the nation and become
the most popular show horse in the
ring.
It is perhaps true that thirty years
ago we were "out of our element”
in New York City and that our horse
was something less than sensation­
al, but some years later we were
causing enough of a threat to other
November, 1968
The Tennessee Walking Horse is on his way to the big city. A dozen of the State's finest, valued by
their owners collectively at $25,000, left by special railroad car yesterday for the National Horse Show
in New ^ ork's Madison Square Garden. Shown above is a group of owners, trainers and riders grouped
together in the car just before the horses left. In the group are Mack Tenpenny, Henry Davis, Earl
Fessey, Martin Goodrich. Steve Hill, S. W. Beech, Sr. and J. L. Haynes. Pictured below is John Hun
of the Haynes Haven Stock Farm with the Haynes entry. HAYNES PEACOCK.
breeds of show horses to prompt the
expulsion of our breed from the Mad­
ison Square Garden Show'. We hope
to see the day when we can be re­
instated in the Garden Show and be
accorded the status we deserve; how­
ever, those who oppose us will have
to accept the "big lick” as part of
our breed today and realize that we
have come a long way in the last
three decades.
The f ollowing article is the last
story written by Gilly Orr at the
end of the 1939 Madison Square
Garden Show. It fairly well wraps
up the situation with regard to the
2,000-mile trip made by the "horse
from Tennessee.”
New York, Nov. 11 — The fifty-
fourth annual National Horse Show
was passing into history here to­
day as the climax of a full week
of equine exhibition was to take
place tonight.
The week’s show in Madison Square
Garden has attracted the fair sex
who came here bedecked in gar­
ments from white tulle to gray lame
and from mink coats to ermine wraps
and wearing orchids and red Cam­
illas, and men who went big for top
and beaver hats and tail and pink
coats, gold braided uniforms and
walking sticks.