1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 April Voice | Page 11

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Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
MORE FRIENDS MAKE CONNECTION ON OUR PARTY LINE
(Continued from Page S)
Horse for show and pleasure.” (Will
do Mrs. Adkins, to the best o£ our
ability. BAG.)
Crulclier At Dr. Cooley’s
Dr. W. L. Cooley of Boaz, Ala.,
“wishes us a lot of luck” with the
new magazine and says Bill Crutcher,
formerly with Wise & Warren Stables
at Lewisburg, Tenn., is operating the
new Cooley stable at Boaz. (Thanks
Dr., Alabama is really a big state in
the Tennessee Walking Horse history.
Soon we hope to get a real good back­
ground story about the famous Mc­
Curdy family of Walking Horses that
bulked so large in the early history of
the breed in that neighborhood.
BAG.)
Jim Rice To Head South
J. F. (Jim) Rice of Route 4, Bing­
hamton, N. Y., surely the oldest Ten­
nessee Walking Horse all-round oper­
ator, trainer-rider-breeder-seller, etc.,
in existence, tells us he plans a spring
trip South before long because he
needs more Tennessee Walking
Horses. He is a patriarch of the breed
at some SI years of age. He’s a friend
of the horse and also a friend of man,
say those who know him best.
Virginians Interested Also
Mrs. A. C. Clark, Jr., of 511 24th
St., Virginia Beach, Va., says "I am a
native Tennessean and consider it
quite a feat that X have been able to
interest a Virginian (whom I mar­
ried) from the horse country here­
abouts, in my kind of horses. We see
Tennessee Walking Horses in shows
in this area occasionally but my one
ambition in thai respect is to get my
two Virginians (including daughter,
13) down to the Celebration some
year, that they may see those marvel­
ous creatures in grand display.”
(Editor’s Note—Nancy Heffington
(that’s her first name), we will greet
you with a brass band. We have a lot
of mighty good Virginia friends inter­
ested in our breed. In fact, had dinner
one time with a score or more of them,
guests of C. C. Turner at Broadway.
Fine folks. BAG.)
Needs Help So Do We
W. R. Kenney of Sloan, Iowa, says
“we were down to (Shelbyville) for
the 1960 Celebration and it was the
best show I ever saw. I have 27 regis­
tered Walkers and the Walkers need
someone to help them. Your maga­
zine can do a great job. (Editor’s
“The Tennessee Walking Horse is my
first love for recreation,” he says. “I
am an amateur exhibitor and fortu­
nately have some pretty good horses.
I owned and exhibited Midnight
Attends 19 Celebrations
Sportsman for two years. Just the past
Wayne Harris, of 27202 Cook year at the Celebration I sold a 2-year-
Road, Olmsted Falls, 39, Ohio, tells old, Go Boy’s Trooper, to a lady in
us “I have attended every one of the California. I own a coming 3-year-old
Celebrations for 19 years and have stud, Go Boy’s Lucky Streak, which I
roomed with Mrs. Joe Moore, a good keep with David Welsh at Greene-
friend of mine. Give her a call and ville, Tenn.”
tell her I wrote you.” (Editor's Note—
(Editor's Note—Thanks Hubert,
Wayne, we did as you wished and and I appreciate your also telling me
Mrs. Moore appreciated it. As you you own two copies of the Biography.
know, her husband was superin­ You give me an idea. This year I will
tendent at the Celebration grounds make some effort to get a pretty com­
for 17 years and he died 10 days be­ plete record of all horses sold at the
fore the 1961 show. He helped me a Celebration. It should make a good
lot with the book. Mrs. Moore spoke news story for the Voice. BAG.)
highly of you. BAG.)
Wants Back In Harness
Wants To Break “Rack”
T. G. Thomspon of Thompson’s
“I am way out here in Texas where
Lhe Quarter Horse is king, but there stores, Maryville, Tenn., tell us “I
are a few of us who like the pleasure think die Tennessee Walking Horse
of the nodders,” writes H. H. Has- is die only show and pleasure horse. I
sley, Jr., of 1151 W. Shirley S