1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 December Voice

COVER STORY i g £®F2Tfl __ WALKING H Knnng A NATIONAL PUBLICATION DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE BREED VOL.' 3 DECEMBER™ 1964".........................NOT 10 PUBLISHED BY VOICE Publishing Company GENERAL OFFICES P 0 Box 3054 Chattanooga, Tennessee 37404 c , , .. _ For ,n^0rmatl0n Contact: c- Bruce Spencer—Ph. 698-7996 Fred E. Friend—Ph. 698-2883 STAFF BEN A. GREEN.... ....................................... Founding Editor C. BRUCE SPENCER...................................Managing Editor FRED E. FRIEND......................................... Associate Editor GLORIA L. SPENCER...................................Associate Editor BARBARA M. FRIEND.................................Associate Editor IVAN MARSHALL............................................... Art Director CHUCK LAYTON...................................Staff Photographer BESS FAULKNER............Circulation and Reader Service MARY FRANCES GREEN........................ Contributing Editor JUDY BYERS............... Contributing Editor DR. M. E. ENSMINGER...........................Contributing Editor CHARLES GOLDSWIG............................ Contributing Editor VIRGINIA LAMB....................................... Contributing Editor ALETHA WIEHL....................................... Contributing Editor BETTY BLEDSOE.....................................Contributing Editor BILLY JOE ANN ESTESS...................... Contributing Editor HAROLD THACKER.................................Contributing Editor ELAINE THACKER....................... Contributing Editor SHARON TERRY.......................................Contributing Editor JUNE RIGGS............................................Contributing Editor BETTY MARGRAVES................................ Contributing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES $4.00 per year — $10.00 three years. Single copies .50tf per. PUBLISHED MONTHLY ADVERTISING RATES Front Cover $250.00 — Back Cover $200.00 — Inside Covers $180.00 — Full page $125.00 — All other space $5.00 per column inch — Color rates on request. Postmasters: Form 3579 should be sent to Voice Publishing Company, P. 0. Box 3054, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2nd CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN. The VOICE PUBLISHING COMPANY does not stand sponsor for opinions or facts stated by authors or contributing editors in this magazine. IN THIS ISSUE COVER STORY ............................ DIXIE JUBILEE ............................ BARN STORMING ....................... NORTHWEST CORNER ............... HORSES-HORSES-HORSES ........ THIS AND THAT......................... FROM EAST TENNESSEE ........... DR. CLEMMONS WRITES AGAIN BITS & SPURS ............................ THE HI-LINE ................................ HORSE BUSINESS ..................... HORSE SHOW RESULTS............. STALLION DIRECTORY ............... VOICE TRADE MARKET ............. DECEMBER, 1964 3 4 10 14 16 20 22 23 24 24 26 32 34 35 TRIPLE THREAT ... the horse that needs no introduction to na tion-wide Walking Horse enthusi asts, is being groomed for new activities in 1965. As a show horse, he has perhaps made more believ ers out of horse lovers for the Ten nessee Walking Horse breed than any other horse. He was the un disputed 1963 “Horse of the Year”, as selected by the American Horse Shows Association and, as all Walking Horse lovers know, was Reserve Grand Champion Walking Horse of the World in both 1963 and 1964. His record of wins will probably stand for many years as a goal for top horses. He was showed more than perhaps any other Stake Horse the modern breed has known. TRIPLE THREAT has had a stormy career! Due to an injury as a two year old he was a doubtful show horse prospect as a colt and was put out to pasture for several years. As an age horse he attracted the attention of an experienced horseman and was put in training as an amateur mount. As he began to develop and his great natural flat walk and running walk became more polished, trainer Harold Ken nedy, then with the CIRCLE T STABLES in Dallas, Texas, saw the full potential of the big bay and began working him as a stake horse. His name became “legion” thr oughout the Southwest and when the Spring of 1963 broke in Middle Tennessee, the big horse had already cut a broad path to fame from Miami, Florida to the Walking Horse Capital of the World. Celebration Bound . . . TRIPLE THREAT was considered the horse to beat in 1963. In the must gruel ing contest ever witnessed in the Celebration he was tied reserve (Confined on Page 7) 3

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