1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 February Voice | Page 3
TENNESSEE VALUING H'^ iRSE
FEBRUARY, 1964
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TENNESSEE WALKING H MRSE
A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE BREED
VOL. 2
FEBRUARY, 1964
NO. 12
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IN THIS ISSUE
Cover Story ........................................................................................... p. 3
Betty Bledsoe ........................................
p. 8
Dr. Ensminger ....................................................................................... p. 14
Walking Florses Around World ............................................................ p. 18
Flarold and Elaine Thacker ................................................................. p. 20
Charlie Goldswig ................................................................................... p. 22
Billy Joe Ann Estess .............................................................................p. 29
Virginia Lamb ....................................................................................... p. 32
Profiles .......................................................................................................... p. 35
Professionals On Parade ...................................................................... p. 38
Aletha Wiehl ......................................................................................... p. 39
Stallion Directory.................................................................................... p. 43
Registrations .......................................................................................... p. 41
Trade Market .......................................................... ......... .....................p. 46
GRAND CHAMPION
SUN'S DELIGHT
BEGINS NEW CAREER
AT HARLINSDALE FARM
By Fred E. Friend
When SUN’S DELIGHT im
pressively won the World’s Grand
Championship at the National
Celebration, September 7, 1963, it
was announced at once that he
would be formally retired from
competition in the show ring and
placed in stallion service for the
1964 breeding season. This an
nouncement was greeted with
great enthusiasm by a host of ex
perienced breeders who saw in
this exceptional champion all the
fineness of conformation and the
natural ability under saddle de
sirable in a horse.
SUN’S DELIGHT is the crown
ing achievement of a forty-five
year program of selective breeding
carried on by Mr. A. S. Dean ,
Route 7, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
In many ways as a breeder, Mr.
Dean has carried on the work of
the master-breeder of the Ten
nessee Walking Horse, the late Al
bert M. Dement. As is apparent
from the pedigree reproduced in
this article, SUN’S DELIGHT is
the product of a line of very ex
ceptional dams. MERRY LEGS F-4
is the fourth dam. Mr. Dement bred
her to GREY LAD to produce the
outstanding mare, SNIP. When
SNIP was then line-bred to LAST
CHANCE, a real concentration of
the blood of the legendary MERRY
LEGS F-4 flowed through the veins
of SNIP’S CHANCE. Because this
line-breeding had been carried as
far as is generally considered de
sirable, Mr. Dean blended the po
tent blood of WILSON’S ALLEN,
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