14 July, 1963
SPORT OF KINGS
( Continued from Page 13) nursing and feeding, and the proper drug or drugs administered by a veterinarian.
When an animal dies, it should be destroyed by burning or deep burial. Also, any bedding should be burned, and infected premises should be cleaned thoroughly and disinfected with a 5 per cent lye solution.
Floating On a Cloud
Say Judith & George Ethridge of 602 Valley Drive, Americus, Georgia.
George( my husband) and I are very“ green” amateurs in the Walking Horse World but we are learning each and every day, George has been riding for about five years now. My Daddy gave me my first horse, an Arabian filly, in 1951. I still have her and have ridden her many wonderful miles over the years.“ Crickett” and I grew up together, each learning from the other. This mare has been everything from a " make-believe cowpony on one day to a Snow-White range stallion the next.”
George bought us a Walking Horse gelding, Ace’ s Buck( call-name DIA MOND) last October. THE VOICE has helped us immensely in both understanding and greatly appreciating Diamond. We had a seemingly impossible dream of owning and showing our own Walking Horse. Well, it finally came true for us with the help of the most wonderful trainer and friend two young beginners could have— Mr. J. O. Hall, Jr., Albany, Georgia.
With Mr. Hall ' s patience and training, we entered Lhe show ring for our first time on May 4, 1963. Scared but determined we enLered the ring with 14 other horses and riders from Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The excitement of the hoof beats and the thrill of the ride touched both horse and rider. I knew the minute the " big horse” stretched those powerful legs that nothing could slow him down when they called out“ Let’ Em Walk.”
Good fortune, and a good horse, did the work. Diamond placed SECOND in the Amateur Walking Horse Class and we came home that night“ floating on a cloud.” With a red ribbon and a check. After that ride, George patted Diamond on the neck and said,
“ Well, big boy, you sure walked into a new feed bag tonight.” And Diamond did just that.
George and 1 have not been able to attend any shows since May 4 th although there were several w ' e had planned to attend. If nothing happens, we plan to be at the Macon, Georgia Show on July 19 and 20.
Americus has recently formed a new club: The Americus Saddle Club, and last November many wonderful people( too numerous to name) on the County Commission prepared a beautiful arena for the club. I am the Secretary and am so proud of how the club is growing in size-slowly but surely. I have felt for a long time that we needed a meeting place for the riders here in town. A place that everyone could meet and ride without being on the streets with its constantly increasing traffic.
The Saddle Club was host to the Georgia Quarter Horse Assn, on June 2, 1963. Our club got the proceeds from concessions and tickets. We faired well and now ' have three new ' light poles installed at the arena. We hope to have five more poles before we host the Shrine Horse Show in September.
Cancer Operation Over; She Learned To Ride A Walker
K. E. Peterson of Box 698, East Main, Carbondale, Illinois, gives some intensely interesting information about his w ' ife’ s enjoyment in riding a Tennessee Walking Horse.
Mrs. Peterson became ill in the fall of 1961 and an operation was performed for removal of a cancer. Now she has completely recovered and as Friend Peterson says it-“ thanks to God, and to our good doctor and to the horse.”
“ A few weeks after the operation, my Doctor Friend advised me to try and get my wife interested in riding, to try to help gel things off her mind. At that time I didn’ t have anything I could trust putting her on.
“ At the same time my Doctor was wanting a horse. He had never ridden and had no place to keep a horse. So in looking around I found a pair of Roan Allen Walkers. The Doctor and I bought them in partnership, and we brought them home to my barn where we kept them.
“ We got my wife and his wife both interested in riding, and since then we have all had a ball. Now ' w ' e are all‘ dyed in the-wool’ Walking Horse fans, owners and boosters.
“ Until that time I had always owned 5-gaited horses. I still have one fine 6-year-old, 5-gaited mare but she is strictly a man’ s horse,” says Friend Peterson.
He also tells us he mails copies of the Voice to a friend, Dr. R. V. Lee, who took a 9-month leave from his job at the Southern Illinois University to give his services at a Christian Mission Hospital in South Rhodesia, Africa.
The‘ Only Walker Owner
Miss Grace A. Eckstein of 373 De Witt Avenue, Belleville, N. J., does not know ' of any other Tennessee Walking Horse owner who lives in her home town or at Coxsackie, N. Y., where her horse is boarded.
“ I have owned by horse for nine years— she really owns me—. I am sorry I never got her papers, as I would like to know her breeding in selecting another Walker," Grace w ' ent on.“ I would never own a horse of another breed. At the rate my old girl is going at 18 years it may be years before I have to consider another horse. Then I want to get a horse ready to show '."( Surely there is some other Tennessee Wellman Ave., S. E., Massilon.
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