getting off the ground with this new service horse
program and plan on expanding to other locations to
make it easier for people who are interested in using
their horses in the service of their communities as
mounted patrol or search and rescue to attend. We also
do one day events which are competitions now at the
International and the Tennessee State Fair. They are
loads of fun and a great test for you and your horse.
These are through WHOA and if you are interested
in putting on an event in your area you can contact
WHOA.
10. Aside from mounted patrol , how else have you
been involved with the breed? Like I said above, I
grew up in the Walking Horse Business. My family has
been in the business since the 60s and I trained horses
for a living in the 70s (although I wasn’t very good at
it). Now I love to trail ride and I love the Big South
Fork area. I have a palomino Tennessee Walker Named
Ranger J.B. Long who is named after one of my hero’s
that was a Border Patrol and later a DEA special agent.
I love to go rock hopping in the mountains when I can
and when I can’t go anywhere else you can find me out
on the trails at Percy Warner Park.
8 • Walking On
11. What equine related honors have you received? I
Have an exemplary service award from Metro Nashville for my work establishing the Mounted Patrol
Unit, I have several other certificates of appreciation
from various city governments for assisting their
departments with their mounted patrol unit. Joe and
I got a lifesaving award. I received the 2010 TWHBEA
Pleasure Horse Ambassador award.
12. What are your goals for the WHOA service horse
program? I want the WHOA service horse program to
encourage horse lovers of all breeds to use their horses
and talents in the service of their communities and
others. I want the program to help horse people learn
sound humane training techniques to make their horses the best they can be. I would like to see the WHOA
Service Horse Program have a website where people
with service horses can communicate on current
events, document training, do online training, and find
service horse related information.
13. Is there anything else you would like to say? Oh
hell yes but I got stalls to clean.