1963-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1963 October Voice | Page 5

TENNESSEE MIXING H0BSE
October
Barnwell Horses
To Compete In
Two Big Events
MACK’S AMANDA D, brilliant 8-
year-old mare in the best competitive
condition of her life, will carry the
banner of Mrs. R. S. Barnwell, Shreve­
port, Louisiana, in both the Dixie
Jubilee at Baton Rouge and the South­
ern Championship at Montgomery,
Alabama.
Trainer Jack Warren, who has
tuned up the horse at his new stables
at Spring Hill, Tennessee, will ride the
mare in the aged classes.
AMANDA placed sixth in the Cele­
bration’s Walking Mare Class and is
said to be in better shape now than in
September. She is a daughter of the
famous MIDNIGHT MACK K, the
sire of two consecutive World’s Cham­
pions (RODGERS’ PERFECTION in
1959 and MACK K’S HANDSHAK­
ER in 1960).
Her dam is LADY STANWYCK
(by MAJOR BOWES). The horse’s
registered breeder is Betty Duncan of
St. Joseph, Missouri, who lived in
Pennsylvania when the mare was foal­
ed. The Barnwells bought AMANDA
four years ago.
This year she won mare classes at
Little Rock, Arkansas, Centre, Ala­
bama, Vivian, Louisiana and Donelson,
Tennessee.
Another Barnwell mare, SUN’S
LIGHTNING ANN. also pictured in
this issue made a brilliant showing in
the State Fair of Texas Horse Show
in early October. She is owned by the
Barnwell Production Company.
One of the fastest mares of modern
times, SUN’S LIGHTNING ANN
staged a teriffic showing against the
great TRIPLE THREAT in the State
Fair Championship Stake. Trainer
Wallace Brandon rode her like a jockey
in the Kentucky Derby, and she flew
around the track like an atomic-
powered bird. She placed second in the
stake, topping some great horses.
Previously, Mrs. Barnwell had ridden
her to second place in the Ladies’
stake and Brandon to third place in the
Mare Stake.
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TEXAS STATE FAIR HORSE SHOW INDICATES BOOM
FOR WALKING HORSES IN WESTERN STATES
COLISEUM, State Fair Grounds,
Dallas, Texas — World’s Champions
who venteured afar to bring back the
most coveted amateur honors in the
World of the Tennessee Walking Horse
here displayed their prowess before
homefolks and others for five days
during the annual State Fair of Texas
Horse Show. And the homefolks cheer­
ed them until the rafters rang with
echoes.
And ringing down the curtains for
this show that has contributed so much
to Walking Horse progress in “Quarter
Horse Country” was a tremendous per­
formance by Circle T Ranch’s TRI­
PLE THREAT — ridden by Trainer
Harold Kennedy in the Championship
Stake. This great horse, Reserve
World’s Champion and one of the
most rugged in the modern history
of the breed, “showed greater rhythm
than ever before,” said an old timer
who had seen the stallion in a great
many shows.
Presenting the ribbon and trophy in
this event were Mrs. J. Glenn Turner
(who missed the Celebration this year
because of the arrival of 5-pound, 10-
ounce Mary Frances Turner, her
fourth child, and Mrs. H. Tom Fulton,
wife of the Executive Secretary of the
Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ &
Exhibitors’ Association of America,
Inc.
TRIPLE THREAT had a real
race for his honors, especially in the
running walk gait where Mrs. R. S.
Bam well’s SUN’S LIGHTNING ANN
received a tremendous ride by Trainer
Wallace Brandon, Grapevine, Texas.
This exceptionally fast and stylish mare
demonstrated also strong endurance as
she pushed TRIPLE THREAT for
honors and was tied reserve Champion
by Judge R. C. Hughes of Jackson,
Mississippi.
Prior to this stirring event J. Glenn
Turner, astride SHADOW’S RED
ACE, formerly the favorite mount of
his son, Fred Turner, pinned the
Circle T flag to the mast with a specta­
cular victory in the Riders 35-and-Over
Class, which saw Frank Mason, also of
Dallas, place second on his World
Champion SUN’S GO BOY AGAIN.
(It was reported that Turner has sold
to Pat Kimbro of Atlanta, Georgia,
SHADOW’S INVASION, the marc
that Turner had ridden to Reserve
Championship of the World in the
Celebration’s 50-Years-and-Over Class
of 1963.
Doodles Thompson, fifteen-year-old
tenth grader at Bishop Dunn High
School, Dallas, won the Amateur Stake
on the famous mare, FAIR WARN­
ING, owned by her mother, Mrs. Rob­
ert F. Thompson. Doodles showed the
throng the same great riding that won
her the Juvenile (13-18 years) World’s
Championship of 1962 and the World’s
Amateur Championship in an unpre­
cedented display at the 1963 Celebra­
tion. Shirley Sharp, Dallas, placed sec­
ond on GO BOY’S MEG, her newfy
acquired mount, which placed third in
the Celebration Walking Mare Class.
This classy mare was formerly owned
by Dr. W. L. Cooley, Boaz, Alabama.
Jan Wright, eleven-year-old Equita­
tion Champion of the World (1963)
and last year’s World’s Juvenile Cham­
pion (13 years and under), took her
beloved DARK SHADOW to first
place in the Juvenile Championship
Stake for Lone Star Stables of Nacog­
doches, Texas. Jan was great, as she is
in every showing. Her father, Joe
Wright, won the Stallion and Gelding
Stake on SUN’S CELEBRATION.
Janie Guenther, Dallas, on GO
BOOGER GO for Frank Mason took
reserve honors in the Juvenile Stake.
Mason rode this same horse to reserve
honors in the Stallion-Gelding event.
SHADOW’S BIG TIME CTR, with
trainer Harold Kennedy up, accounted
for another blue ribbon for Circle T
Ranch, by winning the Junior Champ­
ionship Stake. GO BOYS’ ACE placed
second with Buddy Black of Lewisburg,
Tennessee, up for C. E. Bradshaw,
Orlando, Florida.
The cheering crowd got an added
thrill when Movic-TV Star Bob Cum­
mings trotted from the stands at the
call of Master of Ceremonies O’Neill
Howell, and the popular entertainer
joined in presenting the awards. Bob
and his glamorou s wife, Mary ('mother
of five), were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Clint W. Murchison, Jr., Dallas.
These Beverly Hills, California resi­
dents and a host of other visitors—
including owners and exhibitors, were
honored after the Monday night show
with a colorful dinner party and dance
at the Chaparral Club on the thirtv-
sixth floor of the Southland Life Ruild-
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