1969 Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1969 September/October Voice RS | Page 5

RIGHT — The roses indicating that EBONY’S SEN­
ATOR and Marvin Wilson were the newly-crowned
"champions of the world" were placed around the
neck of the new champion as the rain continued to
fall.
BELOW - Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Peck"
Carlton of Albany, Georgia, pose with their new
World Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse.
many top horses in his years as one
of the nation’s top young trainers.
Another chapter could be written
about the history of tjie new champ­
ion and the fact that he changed
owners just twenty-five days before
he became World Grand Champion.
We will try to intertwine all of these
chapters into one story that will
present the facts and capture and
hold all the excitement of the 1969
Grand Championship Stake. We will
try to fit this into the recorded his­
tory of the Tennessee Walking Horse
in such a way as to give you a last-
ing memory of the night that EB­
ONY’S SENATOR won the "big one” with Marvin
Wilson riding. It was indeed one of the most exciting
victories in Walking Horse history.
EBONY’S SENATOR
By EBONY MASTERPIECE out of GO BOY’S MER­
RY BIRD, our new World Grand Champion represents
the finest in-breeding of MERRY BOY blood (see pedi­
gree). He was foaled January 23, 1964. His dam was
and is now the property of the S. W. Beech Stables in
Belfast, Tennessee. His sire, himself a World Grand
Champion in 1962, produced EBONY’S SENATOR
from his first crop of colts. His dam has since pro­
duced a fine black filly named EBONY’S MERRY
BIRD, which was recently purchased by Lloyd Wood
of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, previous owner of EBONY’S
SENATOR. MERRY BIRD is again in foal to EBONY
MASTERPIECE.
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