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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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