WALK ON . MINNESOTA
by MISS CARLENE HOLT WOODLANE FARM R . R . 5 Stillwater , Minnesota
Looking back , the past season was a busy one for Walking Horses and their owners here in Minnesota . The -June All-Walking Horse Show , sponsored by the Minnesota Walking Horse Association , was again a huge success . Already plans are under way for an even bigger show in 1970 . The Minnesota Walking Horse Association held its annual election and dinner meeting in November at the Venetian Inn in St . Paul . There was a good turnout of voting members . Since all present officers had served two consecutive terms in office they could not , according to MW HA by-laws , be elected to the same office for 1970 . An election for 1970 officers and two board members was held with the following results : President , Miss Carlene Holt , Stillwater ; Vice President , Harold -lessen , Osseo ; Secretary-Treasurer , Mrs . Stacey Wright , Stillwater . Elected to the board for threeyear terms were Gene W . Miller of Cambridge and (' lark Wright of Stillwater . Other board members at present are Miss Connie Flodin , St . Paul ; -John Kop , Prior Lake ; and Donald Swisher , Stillwater .
The Tri-State Horsemen ' s awards were presented in three categories for Tennessee Walking Horses . These awards are earned on a point system throughout the entire show season — each one means lots of hard work and determination . Amateur Champion - NIGHT SONG H . G .. owned by Dr . Dorothy Muirhead . Hastings Reserve - SUNLIGHT SULTAN , owned by Carlene Holt , Stillwater . Open Champion - INVASION ’ S BIG BOY , owned by Permanent Construction Co ., Milwaukee , Wis .: Reserve - NIG HI ’ SONG H . G . Junior Champion - GO HANNAH , owned by Miss Terri Larson , St . Paul ; Reserve - HILL ’ S GO BOY AGAIN , owned by Barwinn Stables , West Bend , Wis . The Donald Swisher family of Stillwater is anxiously watching their beautiful new stable take shape . It will be 50 x 90 feet with ten roomy box stalls , hay and straw storage areas and a large heated tack-lounge room . The Swishers have many fine ' Tennessee Walking Horses including three well-bred broodmares , a two-year-old filly , a yearling gelding and two 1969 foals . ' The Swishers ’ fine new stable is still another added to the ever-growing number of excellent horse facilities for all breeds in the Stillwater area .
Mrs . Ann Newman , Bayport , reports that she ’ s getting along very well in learning to ride her show gelding , NEWMAN ’ S WALKAWAY . This black show horse is now at the Sharon Lee Hoffman Stable at Hastings along with a two-year-old chestnut filly . NEWMAN ’ S WALKAWAY placed well in the Wisconsin point system this year and brought home two fine trophies to be added to the Newmans ’ growing collection .
Logan Potter of Windom , Minnesota reports that he has several Tennessee Walking Horses trained and used as working ranch horses . He expresses interest in having classes in which the Walking Horse can be shown under Western equipment . Several other Walking Horse owners have said they would be interested in classes of this type .
Mr . and Mrs . Tim Triemert , North St . Paul , recently transported their two 1969 Walking Horse foals ( purchased from Woodlane Farm ) to her parents ’ farm . The foals are GO BOY ’ S LADY McKAY and WALK AWAY ’ S BLACK CHIEF ( by GO BOY ’ S WALKAWAY ) and are the first Walking Horses ever owned by the Triemerts . They report everyone is enjoying the two foals very much .
I don ’ t know about other parts of the country , but here in Minnesota it is the time of year that most of us have those show shoes off our show horses — we ’ re watching them and all the stock growing ever longer and thicker winter coats — watching the yearlings finally starting to fill out and look like horses , the broodmares getting fatter — and it ’ s certainly a great time to sit inside where it ’ s warm , look out at the tento-twenty-degrees-below-zero weather , and map out the new strategy we plan to use in 1970 !
BUSINESS ASPECTS OF HORSE PRODUCTION TO BE EMPHASIZED IN JANUARY STOCKMEN ’ S SCHOOL
’ The business aspects of horse production will be of prime interest during the January 12-15 Stockmen ’ s School in Phoenix , Arizona . Dr . M . E . Ensminger , Director of the School , put it this way : " As we race to the year 2000 A . D ., more and more horse enterprises will be conducted as a business , rather than as a hobby . As a result , the business aspects will be the most important single requisite for success in the horse business in the years ahead . Horsemen can , and must , prepare themselves accordingly . The Stud Managers ’ Course is designed to meet this need .” The Stockmen ’ s School will cover in depth the whole range of horse production — business aspects , breeding , feeding , health , management , and marketing . It ’ s the largest and most complete Stockmen ’ s Short Course in America .
Other pertinent facts about the January Stockmen ’ s School are : 64 distinguished staff from the U . S ., Canada , England , and Ireland ( Dr . David Hyde , DVM , General Manager , Irish National Stud ); 127 up-totheminute subjects ; 5 to 8 sessions each hour from which to choose , with separate courses devoted to each horses , beef cattle ( cow-calf and cattle feedlot ), and dairying , and a special ten-day limited-enrollment horseshoeing course , January 12-22 .
All lectures will be published in three attractive 8 !/ 2 ” x 11 ” hardback books , with a separate book devoted to each horses , dairying , and beef cattle .
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