Beloved Belindq-The Chompion Cinderellq Beouty Of The Yeqr
Voice of the Tennessee Wolking Horse
Beloved Belindq-The Chompion Cinderellq Beouty Of The Yeqr
" Even the cowbol ' s l ' ent rvild " on a Saturday afternoon aL the Fort
Worth Livestock Exposition and Stock Show when Beloved Belinda worked out in the exercise ring. Later thousands joined them in hurrahs as she won the 4-Year-Old and up Tennessee \ Valking Mare Class, and served notice she is reigning as Queen of the Breed in the fir ' e-r ' ear-oid bracket.
Her performance so early in the season was called a re-run of her race
to the \\' orld Championship Mare throne at the l96l Tennessee Walking
Horse Celebration at Shelbyville,
Tenn. " Even faster than last year," declared spectators who saw her in
1961 triumphs and again at Ft. Worth.
Trainer-Rider Sam Paschal of NIurfreesboro, Tenn., says she ' s faster than ever-smarter than ever-and better than ever. That ' s going a long rva, v. Last year she placed 4th in the Celebration Grand Championship Stake despite an epidemic of shoe trouble.
Belinda is a proved champion mare. She proved herself in 1960 with the
3-year-old title of the rvorld among
mares just l0 months after she left her home pastule as a pleasure horse.
In 1961 she took mare classes at the Celebration; in Dallas; at the Kansas
City American Royai where she also took stake honors; at Baton Rouge ' s Dixie Jubilee; at Montgomery ' s Southern Championship and at a host of other shows.
The speckled grey horse is great today-but the greatest story is about where she came from, why she is sometimes called " The Cinderella F { orse " or " Sleeping Beauty."
' Ihat story parallels some other fantastic srories o [ the breed-told in the history book about the Tennessee Walking Fforse, compiled by the Edit. or oi this magazine.
Why a Cinderella?
Why Cinclerella?
The answer is simple. She hacl the simple origin of Cinderella, she rvas " broke as a 2-r ' ear-old pleasule horse." not thought of as a srar- ar anv ball( shon '). Then came along Sam Paschal u ' ho took this Cinderella-sleepins
Beauty in hand, ancl look where ' shE is today. Not long ago her owner, Miss Gene
Wild of Sarcoxie, Missouri, reporredlv turned down a $ 30,000 offer fbr herand she has received other bids. Belinda ' s amazing b a c k gr o u n d story, as related by Paschal and others, presents this picture. ller mother, Youree ' s Grey Lady, was bred by E. H. Padgett of Warirace, sired by Top Wilson out of June
tseau _ ty, _ a granddaughter of the superspeedy Giovanni. As a yearling she was traded to C. O. Barker of Readyville in Cannon County, Tenn., for ' a reported Sl7.
Barker sold her to Marland Summers of near Murfreesboro for $ 40 as a work horse. He used her to make crops on his farm and teamed her
with a mule to take his wagon to town. FIe did not breed the mare.
The iate Irving S. Bugg of near N ' Iur-freesboro bought Grey Lady and bred her to Paschal ' s Little Nlerrv Bov, a son of the great Olcl } Ierry Boy out o [ Salll ' \\' eaver. Paschal took the stailion to the Bugg farm rvhere he bred Youree ' s Grey Lady.
Breeding took place X, Iarch 14, 1957. Elelen months later she foaled a grey filly rvho immediately became Irving ' s
Grey Lady. That was Belinda ' s first
Iegistered name.
Ernest Bugg, son of Irving, broke the filly as a 2-year-old pleasure horse
with no thought of her true destiny in the show ring.
Bought tor # 4OO
Paschal and Charley Martin visited the Bugg farm, and bought her for
$ 400.
Martin rode the horse from Oct. 25,
1959 to April l, 1960. Paschal began to ride her and no other person has been on her back since that April date, according to this vetcran trainer. She was beaten only twice as a
3-year-old. By Celebration time that
September( 1960) she was good enough to win the 3-year-old mare World ' s championship. She went on
Io win the. f rrnior stake at the American Roy: rl in Kansas City, Mo. Her leap h ' om pastul ' e to this championship recalls the amazing records of
Strolling Jim ancl Havnes Peacock, earlv Celebration champions of the
rtor ' 1cl.
Ir l-as ar Kansas Citv in 1960 that I { iss Wild sar ' v BetindJ perform in a preliminary. She went home rhat night and told her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wild, " I want that horse." They said " buy her then."
So she did, the very next day-and she was Belinda ' s owner when she won the Junior Stake ar that show. In 196l Miss Wild owned the World Champion Mare when Belinda won this Celebration event as a 4-year-old.
Her- p. arents are said to be among the
world ' s greatest growers of flor,, r = erswith 500 Missouii acres in peonies
aIone.
She Will ' 6SelIHorse {'
Beloved Belinda ' s l962 season is certain to make history, to thrill manv thousands and also to " sell horses. i '( The Editor of the Voice received a letter last year from arr Illinois woman who said she bought a Tennessee
Y ' u. l | ilg Horse because she gor such a thrill from seeing Beloved Eelinda at
Kansas City. lt-there is one, rhere must be many.)
The. great Grey Queen with the tomantic name( coined by paschal) stands l5 hands, 3 inches; w ' eigns t, t7S pounds; has an unsurpasseci- personality; loves to hit the runnin $ walk.
She reminds veteran Walking- Horse Iovers _ of the grear Honey Gold, 3- year-old Mare " World Chimpion in the 1947 Celebration for W. M. Dutrcan of Inverness, Miss, That mare sold for a reported 930, 000.
Sam Paschal says he will provc that
Beloved _ Belinda, the daughter of a
Sl7 moth^er, the pleasure horse bought off the field, will be the " greaiest show mare ever known for th ' e Tennessee Walking-Holse breed. " She appears to be on her way.
One other point, Belinda ' s background, as shown by her pedigree, sltows superior bloodlines that riake Io1 _ 9! aqpions. Ffele is her heritage: SIRE: Little Merry Boy, by Merrv- Bov. by Roan Allcn F-38, by ' AIlair f-t ' out of Gertrudc F-84: Merrl ' Bor ' s dam. Merl.
Legs l '-4 by Allan F-l out bt Nett Dement ';
Little Merry Boy ' s dam. Sally Weaver, bv Brown Allen, by Hunter ' s Allen F-10 out o?
Mary _ McD _ aniel( great granddaughter
' lom of Hal I '-20); Sally \ VEavcr ' s dam, Nell Weav-c1,.. by no9 ' 9 ClieJ F-35 out of a daughter of Night Rider I '-36. f) AM: Yourec ' s Grey. l, ady by ' l ' op \ Vilson. by IVilson ' s Allen. by Roan ' All ' en F- ' 38 orrr <, 1 llilclic Mcssit k l-t { 6: ' I ' op Wilson ' s tlanr.
Sadie by Doc out of princess Hudclleston; Crey Lady ' s datn,. ftrne llcarrry by fravellins IIan, by Giovanrri orrr of Cbldie; Tuni I3eauty ' s darn. Jtrne Fr. ench, by \ Vil ' son ' s-{ 1len.
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" I was one of the firsr to buy your
Biography of the Tennessee Walking Horsc. I have enjoyed it to the fullesi extent. If you have anything else on the Walking. Iforse I would greatly appreclate lt."
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