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horses. He speaks with pride when
you ask him about the horses he
has trained, some of the exper
iences he has had. He can easily
reel off the names of top horses
he has made and trained, and can
recall the significant events in his
career as a trainer and exhibitor.
Russell can recall his first big blue
ribbon won in 1953 on STROLLING
MERRY BOY in the State Fair
Pony Class in Nashville. He also
remembers the first big sale of a
Walking Horse. He sold MID
NIGHT WINNIE MAY to Dr. Bis
hop of California for $3000.00. He
says this was a transaction he will
never forget.
Some of the outstanding horses
that Russell has worked with are:
SAM’S 88, winner of the 1958 Pony
Class at the Celebration; GO BOY’S
TARBABY, PEG’S SENORITA,
SHADOW’S SHADRACK, STAR
OF SON, THE RAIN MAKER, GO
BOY’S CRUSADER, SHADOW’S
DANCER, SON’S BLUE SHADOW,
GO BOY’S RIVER ROAD and SUN
DUST GLORY GIRL.
To this great list of outstanding
Walking Horses can now be added
the name of EBONY’S BLACK
LADY. Russell states that this is
one of the greatest young horses
he has ever started and that she
has the potential of a great hors-
Russell is now busy training,
showing and judging. He recently
won the blue in Memphis on GUN-
SMOKE’S STARLIGHT, owned by
Pat Stringer and is proud of a
close second on EBONY’S BLACK
LADY, in a class of highly rated
two year old fillies at the recent
Lebanon, Tennessee Horse Show.
The G.L.L. Stables now have 24
horses in training, including sev
eral good amateur mounts, and the
list is growing steadily.
HORSES FOR SALE
PLEASURE HORSES, BROOD MARES & COLTS
Mares in foal to Midnight Sun, Sun's Delight,
Midnight Beau and Ebony Masterpiece. Colts
by Midnight Sun.
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MAY, 1964
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Tommy Fouche, Middle Tennessee State College student, pictured in front of
the Sam Paschal Stables in Murfreesboro with his new two horse hauling truck.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, home
of several well-known Tennessee
Walking Horse establishments as
well as Middle Tennessee State
College, is also the business address
of Mr. Tommy Fouche, who makes
his spending money hauling horses
for trainers and others throughout
Middle Tennessee. Tommy, who is
originally from Falls Church, Vir
ginia, located in the northern part
of the state, about fifteen miles
from Washington, D. C., first be
came interested in the TWH at Mr.
E. Carl Hengen’s Lawnvale Farm
in Gainesville, Virginia. He says,
“I have always been interested in
horses, and have had some of my
own all my life, but when I saw my
first TWH there was just some
thing about them that made me
like ihem more than any other
breed of horse I had ever seen.
Their way of going and that big
“lick” was simply a combination
that couldn’t be beat.”
In 1961 Tommy entered school at
Middle Tennessee State College in
Murfreesboro. He quickly met Sam
Paschal and over the past three
years has come to know him as one
of his closest friends. He states that
“Sam taught me even more about
the TWH; its background and herit
age, how to show one, and what a
horse had to have to win the Big
Blues. I have watched and wit
nessed both EBONY MASTER
PIECE and SUNS DELIGHT pro
gress under Sam’s expert training
and showmanship all the way to
the winner’s circle at the Celebra
tion.” The more Tommy saw of
Walking Horses the more he
wanted to have something to do
with them. This past February, he
purchased a new Ford pickup
truck and in his spare time built a
truck bed on it fit to haul any
man’s champion! This past summer
Mr. Fouche did construction work,
and in the fall he worked and lived
on the college farm. What he saved
over these past few months went
toward his truck. Then by the first
of March he had begun transport
ing show horses all over the mid m
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