1963-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1963 January Voice | Page 8

January, 1963
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TO ALL WHO LOVE THE
TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE
The late great Gilbert R. Orr (Gilly) of Columbia, Term.,
is the world’s greatest writer about the Tennessee Walking
Horse and I personally do not believe any of us will live
long enough to meet his equal. This issue would be quite
inadequate if it did not include Gilly’s wondrous 2,000-word
article about the Tennessee Walking Horse that he wrote
for a magazine whose name is unknown to me. I discovered
this text while seeking information at the Tennessee Walk­
ing Horse Breeders & Exhibitors Association when work­
ing on my “Biography”. Mrs. Marianne Hawkins, the only
person in the office at this particular time, “loaned” this
precious material for me and I had it copied. I chose to call
it:
“Gilly Orr’s Legacy”
If you chance to be one in whose heart there is an innate
or an acquired love for a horse a good conformation and
admirable performance, of gentle manners and high in­
telligence, one which is possessed of loyalty and whose
nature is for faithful service; if your sporting blood
courses a bit faster at the exhibition of sufficient style for
smart looks, and if you admire sheer gameness combined
with even temper and long endurance—then, and in that
event, you should meet and