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

MACK K’S QQ@ 0A0QW TAP ROOT FARMS ENTRY AIMS 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 6 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 VOICE of The Tennessee Walking Horse