1964 NATIONAL
By FRED E. FRIEND
“ Not just another horse show, but a real community project”— this is a true description of the National Tennessee Walking Horse Spring Jubilee. Sponsored by the Maury Country Horsemen’ s Association, the Jubilee combines the best efforts of the Civitan and Kiwanis clubs of Columbia, Tennessee, and the wholehearted support of the businesses and industries of the area. The result is one of the genuinely outstanding shows of the season. The 1964 renewal of the Spring Jubilee promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Friday and Saturday nights, June 5 and 6, horse lovers from far and near will throng the beautiful Maury County Park to applaud many of the finest Tennessee Walking Horses now in competition. The prestige gained by winning at the Spring Jubilee makes this show a“ must” on the schedule of all leading trainers and exhibitors of Walking Horses.
Judging the Walking Horse classes at the 1964 show will be: Mr. W. H.( Billy) Brantley. Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Mr. George Lee Lenox. Collierville, Tennessee; and Mr. Paul Smith, Winter Garden, Florida. Judging the Gaited Division will be Mr. E. B. Ogan, Lexington, Kentucky. Mr. Burton Dainwood is again Jubilee Manager, and Mrs. Tom Bowman is secretary. The show committee consists of: Mr. R. P. Harmon, Mr. Hardin Hill, Dr. T. H. Reynolds, Mr. R. V. Swann, and Mr. Leslie White.
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SPRING JUBILEE
Site of the Spring Jubilee is Maury County Park, a beautiful tract of some 160 acres, on State Highway 99, near Columbia, Tennessee. The land was formerly a part of the Middle Tennessee Experimental Farm, and was donated to Maury County by the Monsanto Chemical Company, which had acquired the land from the State of Tennessee. Mr. DeWitt Viar is chairman of the Park Commission set up in 1955 to administer the park. The present facilities have been built and are maintained as a community project in which local government, business, indusrty, and individuals cooperate. Five miles of roads have been built by the efforts of the community, and picnic shelters have been provided by Civic Clubs. Mr. Bill Baker is full-time caretaker of the scenic park, and he is kept busy all summer helping the community enjoy its facilities.
The arena in the park has been the special project of the Maury County Horsemen’ s Association and the Columbia Jaycees. They have done a tremendous job. The arena will seat approximately 7,500 people in boxes and permanent grandstands. This year a new fence around the show ring has been completed, and additional boxes have been built. In addition to the one hundred stables which are part of the barn formerly belonging to the Experimental Farm, the Horsemen’ s Association has built forty new stables nearer the arena. Improvements
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