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Invitation to vacation in Montana.. The Tennessee Walking Horse Association of Montana is busily making plans for its annual trail ride scheduled for the week end of July 24-26. This year the trail chosen will go into the Bob Marshall Wildness Area of Western Montana. The participants will gather Friday night and start early Saturday morning. The food will be catered by some of Montana’ s wonderful trail cooks. The cost will be around $ 20. The Montana Association invites Walking Horse lovers from all over the United States and Canada to join them in this ride and share the fun. Further details may be obtained from Arthur Harlow, Box 718, Whitefish, Montana. The Association issued an invitation to President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family to participate in the ride. The President and his family will be unable to accept the invitation but both the President and Mrs. Johnson sent their very best wishes to the Association and expressed their appreciation for the Association’ s“ thoughtfulness in extending such an intriguing invitation.”
Wanted: A Show Trainer for Washington... Mrs. Dan Bafus of Colfax, Washington, requests help in locating a trainer interested in coming to Washington to train Walking Horses for showing. She reports that Walking Horses are gaining rapidly in popularity there, but that there is an urgent need for a trainer of show horses, since
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Washington- owned Tennessee Walking Horses are being sent at present to Oregon and Montana for training. Only pleasure horse training is available in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Bafus have a Walking stallion, four mares, a two-yearold and several weanlings which they have trained themselves for pleasure riding; but they need the services of a trainer to get their horses in shape for showing. If you know of a trainer interested in moving to the state of Washington, please contact Mrs. Dan Bafus, Route 1, Colfax, Washington. * * *
More news from Washington comes from Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Metz of Littlerock, Washington, who are interested in the Tennessee Walking Horse more as a pleasure and work horse than as a show horse. They report that they are very happy to be in the Walking Horse business. They started a little over a year ago with two registered mares and two registered colts. Since then they have acquired two more mares, all with excellent blood lines. All four of the mares are in foal to GOLDEN SUN ALLEN. They also own a coming four-year-old gelding that they expect to show in western pleasure classes at horse shows, play days and rodeos this year. They report that they have used their o w n Tennessee Walking Horses to drive cattle and have seen others used successfully in roping. They consider them to be very useful animals.
Mr. and Mrs. John I, Borum of Ashland City, Tennessee are expecting a great show from their fine Tennessee Walking Horses in the coming show season. The Borum family became interested in showing more or less by accident when their pleasure mare GOWIN’ S MISS GOLD BOND’, produced a little roan filly, BO- RUM’ S GOLD BOND, that developed into an excellent“ natural” Walking Mare. She was trained at the D. L. Warren Stables in Denver, Tennessee. BORUM’ S GOLD BOND won many blue ribbons and trophies in her first year of showing and has shown at the Celebration the past two years and will show again this year. The Borum’ s Celebration plans include showing their splendid four-year-old stallion, SETTING SUN’ S PRINCE, whose sire was SET TING SUN and whose grandsire was MIDNIGHT SUN. They also expect to enter two colts in the two-year-old class and four colts in the yearling class. The Borum’ s are anticipating their best year of all.
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" Y ' all come!"... A. M. For n of King Oak Stables, Groveland, Florida, wishes to extend a cor al Southern welcome to Walking Horse enthusiasts visiting Florida. You are invited to visit King Cak Stables, where Mr. Fenton, an enthusiastic owner and amateur rider since 1940, will be pleased to conduct you around the stables.
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Another invitation to visit a Walking Horse stable comes from Mrs. Clarence Goodson of Goodson Stables, Galax, Virginia. Mrs. Goodson reports that Mr. Goodson does the training at their twentynine stall stable and at present has a horse in every stall. The Goodsons have pleasure horses and top show horses for sale at all times. Their daughter, Judy, shows in the juvenile and amateur classes and always places well. The Goodson Stables is located on Highway 89 South, Galax, Virginia.
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A fine new stable has been opened in Springfield, Illinois. Riddle Hill Stables, operated by Sam Lancaster of Springfield, and D. F. Marshall of Ipana, Illinois, at present houses twenty-one saddle and Walking Horses in its 204 foot barn which contains 32 stalls, an office, and other modern facilities. There is an outside ring also. The horses are expertly trained by Bill Carrington, formerly of Cookeville Tennessee. Standing at stud is GO BOY’ S WILD FIRE. Mr. Marshall showed this outstanding stallion in sixteen shows last year in Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, and won fifteen blue ribbons and the
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