10 September , 1962
Celebration Story
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Pony Championship Slake on Saturday night — a co-leature with the Grand Championship Stake .
Kay McFarland , the Kansas girl who has been a symbol of great riding and great showing of Walking Horses for a decade , took the Owner- Amateur on Walking Mares class victory with her Midnight Queen Bee — a horse known and seen from coast to coast , The McFarland Farms of Topeka , Kan ., has been a prime contributor to modern history of the breed .
Other first five finishers in this tremendous amateur class were : second , jack Darnell of Huntsville , Ala ., on his Mack K ’ s Mary Bell ; third , Joe Bales , Jr ., on Lu ’ s Lu Lu , owned by his parents , Mr . and Mrs . Joe Bales of Thomasville , N . C .: fourth , Joe Bales , Sr ., on his Caroline ; and fifth , Shirley Sharp of Dallas , Tex ., on her Shadow ’ s Blaze . In riding , Joe Bales , Sr ., appeared to be little handicapped by his fall of Tuesday night in the Owner-Amateur on Stallions Class when his great Sun Down-S staged a runaway and collided with another mount — Bales falling to the track .
The victory of five-year-old Golden Sundust — defending his crown of 1961 as the World ’ s Walking Gelding Champion — came as the final event . Prior to the award an impressive tribute was held in honor of Mr . Sensation — who died several weeks ago of peritonitis at the Don Decker farm , Omaha , Neb . He was ridden to six gelding world ’ s championships , five by Vic Thompson and one by Steve Hill . Last year Deedy Decker won the world ’ s championship for Owner-Amateur on Walking Horses after taking the preliminary Owner-Amateur on Geldings , four years and over . Announcer Emmet Guy recounted the great record of Sensation who was never shown until age six . Deedy presented a floral horseshoe to Golden Sundust in memory of Mr . Sensation and Celebration Trophy Chairman Evan Lloyd Adamson presented a dozen red roses to Miss Decker in appreciation to her . Vic Thompson , scheduled to be in the ceremony , was competing in the class .
Golden Sundust immediately became one of the co-favorites for the World ' s Grand Championship Stake on Saturday night — an event in which he placed third in 1961 . Groover rides him for W . P . Howell , Jr ., Athens , Ala .
Finishing in the first five , behind Golden Sundust , were : second , College Boy with David Welsh up for Hashe & Sanders , Greenville and Richlands , Va .; third , Spurs Big Man with George Witt riding for Mr . and Mrs . W . O . Crawford , Montgomery , Ala .; fourth , Confederate Raider , Marcia McGee of Oklahoma City , Okla ., riding her own mount ; fifth , Go Boy ’ s Big Man , Donald Paschal up for Mr . and Mrs . W . A . Myers , Goodlettsville , Tenn .
THURSDAY NIGIIT
More great Three-Year-Old Tennessee Walking Show Horses than ever before seen by man anywhere will vie tonight for the 1962 Junior World Championship Walking Horse title at the thronged Celebration Grounds — travelling in the steps of the 16-1 different footprints etched into the track Thursday night by history ’ s greatest group of Walking Stallions , Four- Yea rs-and-over , ever assembled .
But sharing honors with whoever chance places on the Junior World throne will be the 10 " giants of the past — and one giant of the present day ” in a colorful “ Oldtimers Ceremony ” that should be one of the most precious sights in all 24 years of Celebration history .
Starting with Black Angel , 1943 World ' s Grand Champion and only surviving mare Queen of the Tennessee Walking Horse World , the champions will pass in review — either ridden or led . Expected also are Midnight Sun , age 22 years , Merry Go Boy , Old Glory ’ s Big Man , Talk of the Town , Go Boy ’ s Shadow ( officially retired last niglu ), Sun ’ s Jet Parade , Setting Sun , Rodgers ’ Perfection , Mack K ’ s Handshaker and Major Wilson .
Of these title holders in previous years , Black Angel is a broodmare , Talk of the Town is a gelding , and the others are “ retired to stud ” with the exception of Mack K ’ s Handshaker — 1960 Grand Champion . Handshaker last night won the Aged Stallion Class and became a favorite to do something never before done by a Tennessee Walking Horse — that is win the World ’ s Grand Championship after holding out a year .
Handshaker will try that unparalleled achievement Saturday niglu in the Grand Championship Stake terminating the 24th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration . No other horse has won in one year , skipped a year as Handshaker did in 1961 when he was too heavily used in stud service to get into track condition , and then won the crown again .
Handshaker Becomes Favorite Handshaker ’ s triumph in the Aged
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Miss Sunbeam . Champion of Colored Grooms on Walking Horses Class , with Brother Wilson up for JJ , C . Bailey Stables , Jackson , Miss .