1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 May Voice | Page 9

Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
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Sun Dust A Major Stallion At 14 Is Result Of A. E. Sisco's 'Faith'
One of die great Tennessee Walk­
The Voice Editor heard elsewhere
ing Horse stories about a “man’s faith last season that Mr. Sisco turned down
in a horse” was written in the 1961 from one of the country’s best known
show season, will be continued this Tennessee Walking Plorse breeders
year and doubtless will run for many a record bid for Sun Dust. If this
horse had been sold he would have
more years.
brought the highest reported cash
The man is E. A. Sisco, a Mt. money price we ever heard of for a
Pleasant, Tenn. “phosphate miner,” horse of this breed. Thus is the value
horse breeder and native son of placed on Sun Dust by his owner.
Maury County who looks to be in his
On the record of the 1961 Celebra­
“fifties.”
tion—where alltime records were set
The horse is 14-year-old Chestnut- for horse entries and competition sur­
colored Sun Dust—proving to be one passing any previous show—Sun Dust
of the truely superior breeding stal­ appears to be approaching his prime
lions of his current generation. And in performance of his get as well as in
the “faith" angle is this—Sun Dust production of new progeny.
was foundered as a two-year-old and
1961 Celebration Ribbons
never showed in the ring after that
Among the Sun Dust products in
age.
the 1961 Celebration were:
Thus Sun Dust, tentatively sold for
Golden Sundust, a spectacular geld­
one of the top two-year-old prices in ing, ridden to third place in the
Tennessee Walking Horse records— World Championship Stake, and to
came back home 12 years ago with the championship for geldings, 4 years
little show record on which to base a old and older—with Wink Groover in
the saddle for Miss Brenda Howell of
career as a stud horse.
“I had faith in Sun Dust and I Athens, Ala.;
Dust Storm, champion 3-year-old
knew he would be a great breeder,”
said Mr. Sisco on Saturday, April 28, gelding with Jack Warren up for E.
M. and J. M. Adcox, Hohenwald,
as the Voice Editor sat in his living Tenn.;
and eighth in the Junior
room at Mt. Pleasant.
Championship Stake for 3-year-olds;
Sun Down S, sixth in the owner-
Line-Bred Wilson Allen
“He is a line-bred Wilson's Allen amateur walking stallions class with
horse and this means he has a great owner Joe Bales of Thomasville, N. C.
producing bloodline. His grand-daddy riding;
Sun Dust Rambler, eighth in the 2-
on his dam’s side was Billie Wilson,
the greatest ‘model horse' that ever year-old walking gelding class with
lived in the opinion of many people Bud Dunn up for Pine Tree Stables,
Florence, Ala.;
who know a lot about Tennessee
Sun Dust Sensation, tenth in die
Walking Horses. And his sire was 2-year-old stallion class with Bud
Midnight Sun, whom everyone know’s Dunn up for Pine Tree Stables;
about as a sire.
Sun Dust Defender, ninth in juve­
“Some people who have seen Sun niles riding Walking horses, riders 13-
Dust ridden lately tell me that I 18 years with Joe Bales, Jr. up.
ought to try him in the show ring
The secret of Sun Dust’s prepotency
now—his gaits are so good. But it is as a production sire is seen in his
far better to stand him as a sire now, pedigree on both the top side and
and enjoy seeing what his sons and down side.
daughters do in the shows. I rode
His sire is Midnight Sun, this
Sundown S to the two-year-old and amazingly effective bloodline is well
three-year-old championships here in known to everyone, featuring Wilson’s
the Spring Jubilee before I sold that Allen.
horse.
Dixie Wilson, His Dam
“Last year we had Sun Dust here
Of the lower side, however, Sun
at our stables but this season he is
with Harold Wise at the Murray Dust gets a similar prepotent factor
Farm at Letvisburg . . . and I am in­ through his dam, Dixie Wilson.
She was the daughter of Billie
formed he is certain to have the largest
court of mares in his life this year,” Wilson, mated to Panda.
Mr. Sisco added.
Billie Wilson was sired by Wilson’s
Allen out of Queen of the Valley.
Queen of the Valley was also sired by
Wilson's Allen out of Molly Queen.
Thus Wilson’s Allen is not only the
sire of Billie Wilson but also through
his dam’s side he is also the grand-
sire of Billie. Sun Dust is therefore
a triple grandson of Wilson’s Allen.
Through his Panda heritage, Sun
Dust’s pedigree reads like this:
Panda by Trixie Allen, by Under­
wood Allen out of Trixie Delk;
Panda’s dam, Black Pansy by an
unidentified sire out of The Black
Mane.
Thus Sun Dust carries the pre­
potent Wilson’s Allen bloodline in a
definite way that makes him espe­
cially effective when crossed with
mares carrying the Merry Boy blood­
line that is entirely missing in the Sun
Dust heritage. He is said by Mr.
Sisco to be one of the few proven
sires standing today with such a defi­
nite Wilson's Allen strain.
Yes, horses are showing and win­
ning today—in many parts of the
land—because of the Mt. Pleasant man
who had faith in the foundered two-
year-old, foaled April 9, 1948, first
owned—by J. M. Adcox, Hohenwald,
and bred by B. C. Lynch of Farmers’
Exchange, Tenn.
General Wilder
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gold.
“In Major Brown’s correspondence
I find many unique references to
great achievements by the sons and
daughters of Traveler. Among them
is a letter from Mr. T. B. Bond of
Nashville, who carried away the prize
at Columbia in 1867 with his gray
Traveler mare. He says the ring in­
cluded 43 entries 27 of which were by
McMeen’s Traveler.
Judges Decided On Speed
“The judges finally agreed to
eliminate all but his gray mare and a
chestnut mare belonging to Capt.
George Campbell. Not being able to
decide between these two they agreed
to clear the ring and let speed award
the prize. The winning of this mare
was all the more remarkable on ac­
count of her age. She had produced
the renowned warhorse, Comet, and in
1862 had given us a good sire Whirl­
wind, a natural pace by the Thor-
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