1963-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1963 June Voice | Page 3

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Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
^un's Delight Climaxes 40-Year Selective Breeding Program
's Delight has been placed in nomination for the Tennessee Walking
h
Grand Championship of the world to be decided on Saturday, Sept. 7, at
the Shelbyville National Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration. This 4-year-
old horse appears on the front cover of this issue with Trainer-Rider Sam
Paschal up. This horse and this rider will star in the star-laden Voice-sponsored
TV Show at Evansville, Ind., July 28 as reported on Page 3 of this issue.
Placing Sun's Delight in nomination as a contender for the Big Crown are
Paschal; Owner E. Fray Escue of Fray Escue Pontiac Co. at Covington, Ky.,
and A. S. Dean, 73, of Murfreesboro, Route 7, who bred Sun’s Delight and
sold him last January to Escue.
Also instrumental in placing Sun’s Delight in the sunlight is Trainer Neil
(Shorty) Branscumb who trained and rode Delight in 1962 to make that horse
the Reserve Junior Champion of the World as a 3-vear-old. He was also second
in the Junior Stallion Class at the 1962 Celebration. Branscumb also rode
Society Playboy to 4th place in the Grand Championship Stake of 1962 for
W. R. Arnold of Decherd, Tenn.
Sam Paschal whose “Incredible Story as Told By His Mother” featured in
the October, 1962 issue of the Voice—in tribute for his 1962 Grand Champion­
ship ride on Ebony Masterpiece for Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hale of Gallatin—is
attempting to repeat history that lias clicked with perfection (or near it) for
three times in the last three years.
The Paschal story, step by step,
would be a book all bv itself. His Horse Show and staged an almost
triumph over physical illness, 32 major unbroken chain of victories until he
operations, etc., is probably without took the 1962 Grand Championship
parallel in the Tennessee Walking of the World, and was immediately re­
tired with a ceremony at the Southern
Horse history.
But the current story is also fabul­ Championship show in Montgomery,
ous-dating back to 1958 when he won Ala. (This horse was advertised in the
the Grand Championship of the March Voice as a stallion in service.)
World on Setting Sun for M. M. Bul­
Seen At Lebanon Show
lard, Newport, Tenn.
In 1957 on March 14 Paschal’s stal­
So if Sun’s Delight becomes World's
lion, Little Merry Boy (since sold), Grand Champion of 1963 it will be a
was taken to Irving S. Bugg’s farm third straight Paschal Victory with
within 4 miles of Paschal’s Stables and Paschal methods carrying out the proj­
was bred to Youree's Grey Lady, a ect. This fact is self-evident today.
mare that once sold for SI7. A filly And some informed people who saw
later named Beloved Belinda resulted, Sun’s Delight in his show- debut with
and as a 2-year-old was broken by Paschal up at Lebanon, Tenn. on
Ernest Bugg.
May 3, 1963 say:
In April, 1960, Sam began to ride
“Sam Paschal is riding a truly
Beloved Belinda—and that year she
great horse. That horse is a real
won the Junior Mare Championship
contender. I would not be sur­
of the World. She was beaten only
prised if he won.”
twice as a 3-year-old in many shows.
This is said today by even some of
A year later Belinda won the Mare
Championship of the World as a 4- the folks who tend to believe that a
year-old for Owner Gene Wilde and 4-year-old horse cannot win the Grand
placed 4 th in the Grand Champion­ Championship under modern condi­
ship Stake despite a flurry of shoe tions—which include the fast gait; the
trouble. That’s the year Amateur big preliminary class with the long,
Claude Brown rode to the Grand exhausting Celebration workout; and
Championship on his masterful Major the necessity for building up an ap­
Wilson—a last-minute entry (adver­ preciated reputation in earlier shows.
At Charleston, W.Va., he won the
tised last month in the Voice as a
West Virginia State Championship
stallion at service).
On July 27, 1961, Paschal advised and Stallion and Gelding class.
The earlier show record of Sun’s
Billy Hale to buy 4-year-old Ebony
Masterpiece, then owned by Clay Delight last year was mighty good,
Simpson, Bowling Green, Ky. Hale did and his championship prospects in
so, the horse was not show n substan­ the Big Stake were materially increas­
tially by Paschal until after the 1961 ed by Shorty Branscumb’s brilliant
Celebration. Ebony Masterpiece be­ ride on the horse at the 1962 Celebra­
gan with the Dallas State Fair of Texas tion. So with the background of the
past and the foreground of the future
—Sun’s Delight must be reckoned with
by all comers on Sept. 7. As with all
horses and all humans—both the rider
and the mount must be in physical
condition to do well—in fact probably
do their very best—to win die cham­
pionship in Shelbyville’s World Series
of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Fray Bets On A Pedigree
Young Fray Escue (whom the Voice
Editor has not met yet) has put his
money on a horse with one of the
few 8-generation w'ritten pedigrees.
That pedigree is available to us—on
loan—as we write this story, ft was
given to Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Dean
recently by Gordon Wilder, Lexing-
tonton, Ky. industrialist. Mr. Wilder
is an absolute authority on pedigrees
and is more actively interested in this
phase of Tennessee Walking Horse
promotion than any other individual
1 know.
T he pedigree of Delight on the top
(sire) side is generally well known as
the horse was sired by Midnight Night
—whose relationship to Wilson's Alien
and role of Master Sire was discussed
in the April Voice (in an article about
another Celebration prime champion­
ship contender).
There is some marked similarity in
the pedigrees of the two contenders
that have been pictured in the Voice.
Both have Wilson’s Allen on both the
top and bottom sides of their pedi­
grees and also they have Hunter’s
Allen F-10 on both sides, and naturally
Roan Allen F-38 on both sides of their
pedigrees.
Has Last Chance Emphasis
In fact, Delight goes into the pedi­
gree records as a Last Chance-emphasis
horse on the dam side. Last Chance
was the great stallion the late A. M.
Dement bred by mating Hunter’s Al­
len and Merry Legs. And the horse
was named Last Chance because Mr.
Dement thought it would be the last
colt by this great mare (and this
proved to be correct).
The 5-generation pedigree of Sun’s
Delight, on the dam side, shows:
Wilson Snip’s Chance (the dam of
Delight) was sired by Wilson’s Dean
(by Wilson’s Allen out of Beauty
Queen). Wilson’s Allen was by Roan
Allen F-38 out of Birdie Messick F-86,
and Roan Allen was by Allan F-l out
of Gertrude F-S4.
Beauty Queen (dam of Wilson’s
Dean) was by Hunter’s Allen F-10 out
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