1963-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1963 February Voice | Page 21

Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
Having Reporter
(Continued from page 3)
Mrs. J. Glenn Turner, Dallas, Tex.;
Third, Midnight Shining Sun, Mrs.
H. Fiskind;
Fourth, Sun’s Oomph, Dr. and Mrs.
H. Fiskind;
Tied for Fifth, Go Boy's Hurricane,
Evergreen Ranch, Midway City, Calif,
and Lovely Midnight, Mrs. Ada B.
Dickey, Worthington, Minn.
Odd Horse Personalities
A recent letter from G. Slott of Pass-
A-Grille, Florida deals with “Odd
Personalities Found in Horses.” Here
is what friend Slott had to say;
Do horses have personalities and
idiosyncrasies like people? They sure­
ly do I A breeder with a band of brood
mares and among them a barren
mare, or one not expected to foal this
season, will remove either of these
two mares just before the foals are
expected. If he does not, he is taking
the chance of losing a foal for either
one of these two mares might steal a
foal from its own mare. They keep
between the foal and mare, fighting
the foal’s mare off. This could go on
until the foal dies from lack of
nourishment. The barren mare does
not reason beyond the fact that she
wants a foal.
Then there is the horse that de­
velops attachment for one person.
During the time such a horse is in the
ring the person must hide, for if he
does not the horse, seeing him will
walk up to him and stand, thus com­
pletely ruining its ring performance.
A breeder told me about a colt he
had which was always getting into
some kind of difficulty in the field
all the time. Whenever this happened
he brought the colt into the same stall
in the barn until his cut or lameness
or whatever he was recovering from
was corrected. He sold him because
he was so prone to injury.
Several years later he made a trade
with another breeder for a mare and
colt, sight unseen. After the horses
were delivered right into the field, he
heard some squeals and hurried to
check. He was amazed to see a horse
going over the fence into the barn­
yard. He ran into the barn. Yes, you
guessed it—there was his accident-
prone colt standing in front of his
favorite stall waiting to be admitted!
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Several years ago we purchased a
weanling colt. We put him in a small
field with a stream running through
it. He began falling off in flesh. We
took more grain in a bucket to him.
He had not eaten the grain he had.
Yet, when he saw the bucket he would
run up to us, smell the grain and
walk away.
So, my daughter went to the stream
and filled the bucket -with water. This
was what he wanted. He had been
right there with water, but he want­
ed it from a bucket. Evidently his
mare had never taken him to a stream
to drink. We let him into the stream
then, he pawed the water, and had a
grand time. Whenever he ran to us
when we had a bucket from that time
on, it was for grain. meeting young lady horses, the boys
are wearing tail coats, the girls wed­
ding gowns.
IT ALL LOOKS pretty inviting, to
a horse. And there is no mention of
surly waiters and bellhops with their
hands out for tips.
If the idea works for horses, maybe
they will try it for people.
Is Dobbin Draggin’?
Send Him to Florida
The following is a clipping from St.
Petersburg Times:
Is your horse hurting? Is he frett­
ing, pawing his little stall, off his oats?
Is he shivering these cold mornings,
generally run down, kind of peaked
looking, and running like he’s got an
anvil tied to each hoof?
Have you caught him reading travel
folders lately?
Do vou have a horse?
IF YOU DO, and his symptoms are
showing, a neat brochure that tum­
bled out of today’s mail might have
the answer.
Why not send your horse to Florida
for the winter?
The people at Farmsworth Farms,
Ocala, say they have just the place
for tired horses.
It looks like a better deal than
people get. There are doctors for old
horses, teachers for young ones and
recreation directors for them all. For
girl horses, the brochure says there
are plenty of single boy horses around,
and a social director on duty.
YOU MIGHT try some of these
glowing promises out on your horse:
“Rest, rehabilitation and retraining
for older horses to move many a
breadwinner along to a successful
comeback:”
“Breaking and training for younger
horses, plus year round nutrition of
good grass, good water and healthy
sunshine. ...”
Cartoons show happy horses run­
ning and'-they’re wearing track suitj,
playing tennis in nifty spofts togs, arid "Your Complete Apparel
Headquarters"
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