1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 January Voice | Page 41

JANUARY
was crowned Grand Champion
Walking Horse at the National
Celebration and that of the fifteen
Grand Champions crowned, 1949
— 1963, eleven have been direct
descendents of MIDNIGHT SUN.
With this incomparable record of
victories at the very highest level
of competition, his offspring have
brought him acclaim of the most
extravagant kind; yet no words of
praise seem out of place when ap­
plied to MIDNIGHT SUN’S quali­
ties and achievements as a sire of
Walking Horses. A number of
horsemen with many years of suc­
cessful experience and many of
the most knowledgeable students
of the breed are frank to claim for
him the title, “The All-Time Great­
est Walking Horse Sire”. Beautiful,
active and still a strong breeder at
age twenty-four MIDNIGHT SUN
very probably will add continually
new lustre to his already legendary
accomplishments before he com­
pletes his service to the breed.
The bloodlines of this remark­
able stallion are an interesting
combination of the great Walking
Horse lines and some of the best
Standardbred strains in America.
This combination is generally
thought to account for both the
true “free and easy” Walking
Horse gaits and the superior stam­
ina and power so apparent in MID­
NIGHT SUN and his get. The great
prepotency of this horse, like that
of the other sires dealt with in this
sketch, has enabled him to trans-
rnU to his descendents the qualities
of conformation, natural Walking
ability and stamina which he him­
self possesses through the inheri­
tance passed to him through the
prepotent sires in his ancestry.
Indeed, if as we have suggested, the
real hallmark of the truly prepo­
tent stallion is the ability to pro­
duce in his descendents a greater
fineness of conformation and a
greater perforance of gaits under
saddle than he himself could show,
then surely MIDNIGHT SUN be­
longs in the top ranks of the pre­
potent stallions in the long history
of our breed.
Having traced the evolution of
the Tennessee Walking Horse from
its technical fountainhead in AL­
TE^ftjJtKING H0RSE
LAN F-l, through his greatest son,
ROAN ALLEN F-38, and through
this sire’s two most famous sons,
WILSON’S ALLEN and MERRY
BOY, and through these to the
most renowned son of each, MID­
NIGHT SUN and MERRY GO
BOY, and having thus brought the
story of the greatest stallions in the
development of the breed down to
our own time, we are impressed
again with the tremendous ac­
complishments of those dedicated
breeders who have produced for
us the greatest horse in the world
for show and pleasure. It is our
sincere hope that the present gene­
ration may prove worthy of this
heritage.
WALKING HORSES
AROUND THE WORLD
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and eliminates the need for tran­
quilizers — just what the doctor
ordered.
Karen Feuiz, 22 North Main
Street, Hartford, Wisconsin, wants
a 9” x 11” picture of a “famous or
typical Walking Horse in action.”
If you have such a picture, please
contact this young lady.
Missing Papers Depi. . . . Mary
Lou Crawford, 1411 West 190th
Street, Space 38, Gardena, Cali­
fornia, would like very much to
obtain the papers on her mare
whose dam was MAYFAIR or
MISS MAYFAIR. The dam was
purchased at a Murray Farms Sale
in Tennessee and then brought to
California. Mrs. Crawford has been
informed that MISS MAYFAIR
may now be in northern Cailfornia.
If you know the whereabouts of
this mare or her owners, please
write Mrs. Crawford.
Ray Fogarty of Medina and Cor­
pus Christi, Texas, has introduced
the Tennessee Walking Horse to
Bandera County at his ranch at
Medina. He has numerous mares in
foal and a breeding stallion, SEC­
RET COMMAND, who was sired
by MIDNIGHT SERCET, 1958
World’s Amateur Champion. The
eyes of Bandera County are upon
you, so show them the winning
ways of the Tennessee Walker.
she has located some very good
stock in her vicinity. Mrs. Mc­
Daniel would appreciate hearing
from any other Walking Horse
people in her area.
Allan Callway, 16, and Lucy
Callaway, 15, children of Mr. and
Mrs. Adolphus Callaway of Cross
Road Farms, Rayle, Georgia, put
all their eggs in one basket, so to
speak, and by means of delivering
fresh eggs to their neighboring
customers earned enough money to
buy and maintain their own horses.
They have selected their own
breeding line and have trained and REQUEST FOR COMPLETE
cared for their own horses. They RESULTS OF SHOWS
have even bought their own trucks
As part of our expanded cover­
and gear and paid entrance fees to
age
of events in the Walking Horse
shows all over Georgia each sum­
World,
we want to publish in 1964
mer. They have exhibited three
years at the Celebration. Lucy was as much information on Walking
one of the high point riders in Classes in shows as we possibly
Georgia the past two years; and can. Our correspondents will be
Allan has done exceptionally well able to cover some of these shows;
in the three-year-old classes and but the VOICE’S being able to pub­
the amateur classes, taking Reserve lish many results will depend upon
Champion in the Amateur Stake in the assistance of all our readers
Atlanta. We wish continued suc­ and friends.
Will you please see that a com­
cess to this industrious young pair
and suggest that theirs is an ex­ plete record of the shows in which
your horse ties is sent right after
ample worthy of imitation.
Dr. H. M. Bocks, 68, of Logan, the show?
Ohio who styles himself “an old Voice Publishing Company
country doctor,” is still riding Ten­
nessee Walking Horses and win­ Box 3054
ning. This keeps him feeling young Chattanooga, Tennessee 37404