1964-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1964 July Voice | Page 6

MACK
K’S
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AT CELEBRATION STAKE
By Gloria L. Spencer
All the talk you have been hear­
ing is true! MACK K’S BIG
STORY is, in truth, the BIG
STORY, resounding throughout
the walking horse world of a bril­
liant chestnut stallion whose as­
tounding ability shouts “Champion.
Champion, Champion,” in all three
gaits.
running walk and beautiful head
motion is his NATURAL way of
going, improved upon with train­
ing, but still NATURAL and in­
herently BIG STORY’S.
BIG STORY did not just happen,
He is the result of selective breed­
ing on the part of Joe Urquhart of
Columbia, Tennessee. Mr. Urqu­
hart
selected ACE’S HONEY DEW,
Referred to by many as “The
an
OLD
WILSON ACE mare in an
Sleeping Giant,” no doubt now re­
effort
to
breed another champion
mains that the Sleeping Giant
sired
by
MACK
K and BIG STORY
has awakened and is ready to meet
is
the
result
of
this unique cross.
any challenge the show ring of­
From
the
time
he
was two years
fers.
old, it was apparent that he was
What is a Champion? You get an animal of exceptional ability,
your answer clear and strong when to be compared with MACK K’S
you see this magnificent horse in HANDSHAKER and ROGERS
action. From his proud, arrogant PERFECTION, two of his brothers
head to the tip of his flowing and both world grand champions.
flaxen tail (eight and one-half feet Hence the name MACK K’S BIG
of it and it’s all his) BIG STORY STORY — the ultimate achieve­
is the recognized classic of the ment in MIDNIGHT MACK K
breed.
breeding.
Purity of gait, so sought after And behind all BIG STORY’S,
and the ultimate achievement of there is a story of a man or the
the breed has been realized in BIG men who made it. In this case it
STORY. The high, rolling canter, is the story of a young trainer,
proud flatwalk, powerful, fluid Buddy Kirby, who has nurtured
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and developed this brilliant animal
until he has come into his own,
displaying the superior and classic
ability for which he was bred and
born.
There is nothing about BIG
STORY that is average. And like
all superior horses, he has been
trained for the fulfillment of the
greatest achievement of all, the
winning of the title, WORLD’S
GRAND CHAMPION.
The road has not been easy, nor
has it been fully traveled but, as
the time draws near for a new
Champion to be crowned, poised
at the gate will be one of the
greatest Walking Horses of our
time and his determined trainer
who is to make his bid for the
great one.
From the time BIG STORY was
three, Buddy Kirby has devoted
every effort to groom him for the
big one. After winning the South­
ern States Championship at Mont­
gomery as a three year old. BIG
STORY and Buddy, were on the
first lap, in the opinion of many,
for top honors at the Celebration
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