1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 September Voice | Page 2

Texans Sweep 3 Amateur World Championships
Texas Triumphant—Frank Mason. World’s Champion
50-Y ears-Old and Over Rider; Jan Wright. 10, World’s
Champion in 13-Year-Old Juvenile Class; Doodles (Virginia
Lee) Thompson. 14. World’s Champion in 18-Year-Old
Juvenile Class; rear roiv, Trainer Wallace Brandon, train­
er for horses ridden by Mason and Doodles; Trainer Bill
Moore, trainer for Jan’s horse; Mrs. Robert F. lhompson,
mother of Doodles and owner of Fair Warning. Missing from
the picture is Fred Turner, 19, winner of the World s Reserve
Championship in the Owner-Amateur Stake—and the youngest
male rider in Tennessee Walking Horse History to win this
championship.
Details of the Texas triumphs unprecedented in many phases
in the 24-year history of the Celebration at Shelbyville are
recounted in the FRIDAY NIGHT episode of the Celebration
Story told in this issue. The Voice Editor took this picture
after Saturday midnight at the Circle T Ranch tack room. In
the excitement he took four “shots” with the Texas State Flag
upside down. This error teas corrected with the assistance of
two newspaper photographers and one newspaper artist __
assisted by a history book showing slate flags. My apologies
to all Texans. (BAG).