1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 September Voice | Page 28

September, 1962
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National Futurity of 1962 officials from left are: Ringmaster
James II. Hawkins, Organist Jimmie Richardson , Miss Emily
Sanders (friend of Miss Ellington). Mrs. Marianne Hatvkins,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Breeders ’ Assn.; Executive Secre­
tary II. Tom Fulton of the Tenn. Walking Horse Breeders' &
Exhibitors' Assn, of America, Inc.—sponsors of the $7,500
Prize Futurity; Miss Ann Ellington, daughter of Gov. and
Mrs. Buford Ellington tcho formally presented the ribbons
to winners; Miss Barbara Shaw of the Breeders' Assn, office
staff; Judge Ed Carothers, Franklin , Tenn.; and Announcer
Emmet Guy, Jackson. Tenn. Fulton served as show manager
with Mrs. Hawkins show secretary.
Fall Murray Farm Sale Scheduled
Harold W'ise tells us his Murray Farm Sale at Lewisburg,
Tenn. Oct. 11-12 will be the biggest ever of the fall sales.
Mares and colls will be sold the first day with stallions also
on the second day. Sale starts at 10:00 a.m.
More Futurity
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Woods, Shelbyville; rider, Ray Tenpenny; 5.
Walls' Go Boy, owned by Lakeside Farms,
Guntersville, Ala.; rider, Clifford Dean; by
Merry Go Boy oui of Dawn of Dixie; 6.
Snow Flurry, owned by J. F. Parnell, New­
born, Tenn,; rider, Alex Robinson; by Merry
Go Boy out of Lady Burbon; 7, Go Boy’s
Black Magic T, owned by J. F. Parnell. New­
born; rider Red Durham; by Merry Go Boy
out of Merry Boy’s Red Bird; 8, Setting Sun
Again, owned by Mrs. N. C. Denton, Annis­
ton, Ala.; rider Phillip Fagan; by Setting Sun
out of Denton’s Lady A Flame.
James F. Rice (right) of Binghamton, N. Y. called “the
Tennessee Walking Horse Evangelist of Upstate New York,"
attended his 16th consecutive Celebration. He told Mrs.
Syndey (Bud) McGrew, Jr., how he has taken 170 Tennessee-
bred Walking Horses to his home territory since his first
Celebration visit. He celebrated his 83rd birthday Aug. 1. On
the left is his friend, Frank Casey, who has accompanied Rice
to Shelbyville for the last two years. Mrs. Rice died a fetv
months before the 1961 Celebration. The Rices regarded
Shelbyville as their “other home toicn" and the Dixie Hotel
as their “southern Home," he told Mrs. McGrew. He is be­
lieved to be the oldest active Tennessee Walking Horse trainer
in the world—maintains one of the largest training barns in
the East. He appeared with his favorite horse last spring at
a large fair in Ontario, Canada. Rice visits Middle Tennessee
every spring to take a dozen or more horses back to Bing­
hamton for distribution in the area. Friends familar with his
work say lie has done more to acquaint Easterners with the
Tennessee Walking Horse for show and pleasure than, any
other individual.