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MIDNIGHT BEAU
Excellent Bloodlines and Fine
Conformation Indicate This
Stallion’s Greatness
By Fred E. Friend
MIDNIGHT BEAU, magnificent,
nine-year-old, black stallion, owned
by Dr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Powell,
of Paintsville, Kentucky, graces
the cover of this 1964 Stallion
Directory Edition of the VOICE.
MIDNIGHT BEAU is standing at
public service at Harlinsdale Farm,
Franklin, Tennessee, under the ex­
pert management of Mr. Harlin
Hayes, who has also directed the
breeding program of such famous
sires as MIDNIGHT SUN and
SUN’S BIG SHOT, who continue
to stand at Harlinsdale Farm.
MIDNIGHT BEAU is the result
of a long, selective breeding pro­
gram carried on for more than
forty years by Mr. A. S. Dean,
Route 7, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The remarkable quality and consis­
tency which Mr. Dean has achiev­
ed in his breeding of Tennessee
Walking Horses is quite a story
within itself (and with the coopera­
tion of Mrs. Glenn R. Powell, who
has done extensive research on the
achievements of Mr. Dean, we hope
to tell this story in a future issue
of the VOICE). Many of the horses
resulting from this carefully plan­
ned breeding have excelled in the
show rings of America, and SUN’S
DELIGHT, also bred by Mr. Dean,
is currently the World’s Grand
Champion Tennessee Walking
Horse. (Students of pedigrees will
perceive at once from glancing at
the enclosed outline of MIDNIGHT
BEAU’S breeding that his dam,
SNIP’S CHANCE, was also the dam
of WILSON SNIP’S CHANCE, the
mare that produced SUN’S DE­
LIGHT.)
Careful students of the blood­
lines of Tennessee Walking Horses
are acclaiming the breeding of
MIDNIGHT BEAU as one of the
best to be found in any stallion of
the breed living today. The sire of
MIDNIGHT BEAU is MIDNIGHT
SUN, whose renown as a sire and
whose influence upon the breed in
modern times is too well known to
JANUARY
require any explanation or com­
ment. The most striking thing
about the breeding of MIDNIGHT
BEAU on his dam’s side is that he
is a double great-grandson of
MERRY LEGS F-4, frequently
called the greatest mare the breed
has ever produced. Such a concen­
tration of the blood of MERRY
LEGS F-4 in the fourth generation
of a living horse is most unusual.
Also very seldom seen in the pedi­
gree of a living horse is the appear­
ance of ALLAN F-l five times in
the fifth generation. Thus, MID­
NIGHT BEAU offers a unique con­
centration of the very fountainhead
of the breed, and this blood has
been channeled to him through
some of the greatest sires and dams
that the breed has yet produced.
MIDNIGHT BEAU is an elegant
black stallion with a small star.
Fineness is the key word in des­
cribing his conformation. In the
stall or on a line ,he moves with the
long powerful strides of a natural
saddle horse. As Mr. Harlin Hayes
observed as he was showing MID­
NIGHT BEAU to the writer: “Here
is clearly a natural and superior
saddle horse of the kind we all
like to see.”
With the breeding and the con­
formation of which champions are
made, MIDNIGHT BEAU appeared
to be well on his way to greatness
in the show ring until an accidental
fall seriously injured his mouth,
making further training impossible.
Expert observers who saw him as
a two-year-old had labeled him “a
great prospect.” He was then re­
turned to his original owner and
lived in obscurity until 1962. In the
summer of that year, Dr. and Mrs.
Glenn R. Powell were searching for
a young stallion to head their
breeding program in Paintsville,
Kentucky. After looking far and
near, they discovered MIDNIGHT
BEAU only a short distance from
their home. Immediately much im­
pressed with his breeding and his
conformation, they bought the
horse and moved him to their
stables, where he remained in serv­
ice for several months.
Early in 1963, a VOICE editorial
planted an idea in the minds of
Dr. and Mrs. Powell that they
owned a stallion that deserved a
real opportunity to prove himself.
When the expert owners and man­
ager of the world-famous breeding
establishment at Harlinsdale Farm
were found to share their convic­
tions, arrangements were made to
bring MIDNIGHT BEAU to stand
at public service in Middle Ten­
nessee. Here he would be available
to far more quality mares than
would ever be possible in Eastern
Kentucky. Harlin Hayes, comment­
ing on the reasons why the manage­
ment was eager to have MID­
NIGHT BEAU stand at Harlinsdale
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