1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 July Voice | Page 20

AIRLINE PILOT VARIES
FROM HORSEPOWER
TO HORSES
Walking Horses Provide Hobby
And Family Fun For
Boyd Beveridge
When on the job as co-pilot of
a multi-million dollar Eastern Air
Lines Electro prop-jet Airliner,
Boyd R. Beveridge concentrates on
handling the thousands of horse­
power at his disposal and pays
strict attention to the job at hand.
But when he touches down and
has completed another of the sche­
duled runs along the Eastern Sea­
board from New York to Florida.
Boyd hops in a little pick-up truck
and heads for home. Home is in
Shelbyville, Tennessee and is a
beautiful fifty acre farm complete
with big white colonial house and
naturally, Tennessee Walking
Horses.
The type of flying that Boyd
Beveridge does for a living is
strenuous and requires maximum
physical and mental capabilities.
His trips carry him all over the
eastern part of the country. On a
weekly, round trip schedule, Boyd
will spend several nights in motels
and hotels in Washington, Pitts­
burg, New York and other cities
in the area. Here is a man that has
a zest for living and is a credit to
the Walking Horse business.
Before moving to Shelbyville,
the Beveridge family was living
in Atlanta where he had worked
for Eastern Air Lines for some
eight or nine years. He had spent
time in the air with Uncle Sam
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ANOTIIEIt WIN . . . Boyd Beveridge
is seen receiving one of many ribbons
won in several years of coni pel it ion.
and Southern Airlines before join­
ing Eastern. Boyd’s love for horses
was so great that he purchased a
farm outside Atlanta, which he still
owns, and as his interest in Walk­
ing Horses grew he decided that
they should be a little closer to
the center of activities so they
moved to “Walking Horse Country”
for good.
The Flying “B” Farm, located
just south of Shelbyville on the
Lynchburg Pike is a perfect set­
ting for his horse activities. Here
he has 10 brood mares and several
top colts and what time he doesn’t
spend with his own stock is spent
in the stables and on the farms of
Bedford County. It is said that
Bovd Beveridge knows as much
about the top Walking Horses in
the Middle Tennessee area as any­
one. Boyd has horses in training at
the Green and Hugh Stables in
Shelbyville and when his schedule
will permit he shows as an ama­
teur. He is an excellent exhibitor
and a top competitor. Around the
stables it is hard to conceive that
the fellow in the Levis and the T
shirt, gently whittling away on a
cedar stick and talking horses like
a professional, is also an airline
pilot.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd R. Beveridge
and their children live the same
type of rural family life as many
Boyd Beveridge of Shelbyville, Ten­
nessee. Walking Horse enthusiast and
airline pilot.
other people in and around Middle
Tennessee, but when the phone
rings and he is again on schedule
to fly, Boyd hops in his little pick­
up truck and heads for Nashville
where he once again assumes his
duties as co-pilot, jockeying horse­
power instead of horses.
Our thanks to Mr. L. C. Fritzsche
of Shelbyville for telling us about
our PROFILES subject for this
month. If you know people in the
Walking Horse business whose
story would be of interest to our
readers please let us know and we
will be glad to “Profile" them in
the VOICE.
VOICE of The Tennessee Walking Horse