1969 Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1969 July Voice RS | Page 46

LETTERS
Dear Sir:
As an exhibitor and judge for the
past 25 years, and as a person in­
terested in horse shows, I want to
pass along a few of my thoughts.
In a lot of our shows in Tennessee
and other states, all of the Five and
Three Gaited Classes have been cut
out of the shows. In talking to some
of the Show Committees, I learned
that the reason for this is they can
not fill the classes. I am sure that
this has been true in the past, but
not this year and I think not in the
years to come.
The Walking Horse has been the
most popular horse shown for the
past few years, but everyone cannot
have a winner in these classes and
a lot of the young people are turn­
ing to the Five Gaited, the Three
Gaited, the Roadster Pony, and the
Harness Pony.
I think the shows would be better
off, as far as spectators are con­
cerned, to have a show for everyone.
We have shown for the past 20
years, mostly in Tennessee and Ken­
tucky, and have met some wonder­
ful people. We would like to be able
j show and mingle with the people
we love so well.
Hope this will help to improve the
on a great show which no one could
ask more of. Then some poor kid
rider’s father goes and cheats so his
horse can win. I say this for more
than a thousand juvenile riders. We
want to go into the ring and have a
good time, knowing no cheating is
taking place. After working so hard
all winter and then go into the ring
and lose because of cheating, the
agony of this kind of defeat hurts
us juveniles so bad. You should see
the faces of the losing juveniles who
should of (sic) been the winners.
Tears pouring from their eyes.
Sir if this is not enough to keep
cheating and grow-ups out of our
(us kids) class I can give you over
100 names of riders who feel the
same as I do.
We want to have FUN.
A SAD JUVENILE
Dear Sad Juvenile:
Thank you for your fine letter. It
says very well what we have heard
for years. Parents; . . . read and
heed!
THE EDITOR
Dear Sir:
I didn’t know who the Contributing
Editor from Illinois is, so wrote it
directly to you. Dr. Cooley and I
bought two nice mares from Bud
Dunn, Florence, Alabama, recently.
We will show them in area shows as
well as the Midwest, State Fair, and
International.
MACK K HIHOPE was purchased
from Bud for the adults to show.
A lovely bright chestnut aged mare,
she won second last fall at Mobile
in addition to other good wins. While
we watched Bud work horses, our
daughters, Crystal (15) and Carolyn
(12) went "stall shopping” on their
own and found a darling filly by
, SUN’S DELIGHT named QUEEN’S
I DELIGHT. She is a light chestnut
Yours truly,
with a flaxen mane and tail. After
TOM BANKS
seeing the girls ride her, we decided
Plainview Stables
to buy her, too, so horse-showin g
Murray, Kentucky
could be a family project Our young
son preferred the tractor and Bud’s
Dear Sir:
horse van, but we’ll win him over
later!
Pm a twelve-year-old rider who
Our mares will be at Don Wood­
shows in juvenile classes. At my
worth’s stables in St. Joseph, Illi­
age I have learned the trate (sic)
nois for the show season and will
of cheating very well.
return to Bud for additional train­
JUVENILE MEANS A YOUNG
ing next winter, since they will be
RIDER
without a trainer for the summer.
Please I would like your help in
The Woodworths have raised Walk­
keeping the juvenile classes free of ing Horses for a number of years,
cheating.
and can help us a great deal.
We have had pleasure Walkers for
Sir this is pure fact, my horse and
many other juvenile horses have put just a year, and now that we have
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two show horses we are more enthus­
iastic than ever. We have enjoyed
the VOICE a great deal, and feel
we have learned so much from read­
ing it.
Very truly yours,
MRS. J. C. (GLORIA) COOLEY
Champaign, Illinois
Dear Sir:
I enjoyed your May issue very
much; however, I would like to call
your attention to a small mistake in
the MISTER CHARCOAL advertise­
ment. I don’t know if you can make
a correction now, but this horse mer­
its a lot of attention and I believe
people will be interested in knowing
that his sire is ALLEN’S BLACK
MAGIC instead of BLACK MAGIC
L. M., as shown in the ad.
Louis Slone, the trainer, and Vic
Wulff, the owner, are breeding sev­
eral of their mares to this old sire.
Louis not only won the two-year-old
class with a colt out of the stallion;
he also won the mare class and the
grand championship stake class with
a daughter of this stallion last year
at the American Royal.
Old BLACK MAGIC is now 28
years old. He is the sire of WITCH­
DOCTOR and the grandsire of WAR-
LOCK. He has also sired a great
many other good horses. A direct son
of old MERRY BOY out of a GIOVAN­
NI mare, he was shown by Winston
Wiser at the Celebration before he
was moved to Missouri. I believe the
old horse has quite a history. I know
there have been times in his past
when certain people and certain cir­
cumstances gave him a "raw deal,”
but he has proven himself now and
at least his "case” is one instance
where truth has won.
Keep up the good work on the
VOICE.
LINDA FERGUSON
Black Magic Stables
Versailles, Mo. 65087
Dear Linda:
Thank you for bringing this to our
attention. It is important to us that
pedigrees be correct and I am sure
that it is to Louis and Vic. Thanks
again!
THE EDITOR
Dear Sir:
We recently had a two-horse trailer
stolen from in front of our stable here
in Shelbyville. We would appreciate
your putting a note in the VOICE to
help us locate the trailer and the
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