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

He became actively interested in
Walking Horses around 1951 and
won the pony class at the Cele­
bration in 1955-56. He departed
from the horse business in 1957
and worked in the printing busi­
ness with his mother in Nashville
for a couple of years, but in 1959
he started back with a public sta­
ble at Melrose Farms in Nashville.
He has been in Mississippi since
1962.
Last year at the Celebration,
Linda Robinson won the Juvenile
Class on GO BOY’S CHALLEN­
GER under Dickie’s capable train­
ing. He purchased GO BOY’S CRY­
STAL as a yearling and sold him
to Beech. Yokley and Hale, as a
two year old. Two years ago he
sold Mrs. Paul Randolph the well
known mare MAY MADNESS, that
she now shows. This year Dickie
won the two year old class at Co­
lumbia, Tennessee with GO BOY’S
DESTINY. He is similiar to Rus­
sell in the fact that he likes to
start his stock young and does
very well with them. Each of them
have a palomino colt by MERRY
GO BOY to show in the two year
old classes next year for Circle
R Stables and GLL Farms.
Dickie showed a Junior horse
at the Celebration that he tied 4th
with in the Junior Stake. There
is an interesting story behind this
stallion . . . Hawkshaw Hawkins,
the famed Country Music star,
bought the horse on February 7,
1963, and Dickie picked him up
that day to take to Mississippi as
a yearling. Hawkshaw saw his
horse only one time. Three weeks
later, he was fatally injured in a
plane crash that many people will
remember. Hawkshaw had always
wanted to own a black stallion
that would be good enough to show
in the Celebration. The horse and
Dickie did well this year for Mrs.
Hawkins. The horses name . . .
HAWK’S MEMORY.
It was indeed a pleasure to talk
with Russell and Dickie Pate in
that fine office at the double sta­
ble on the Celebration grounds. We
wish every success in the future
to these two brothers, the Circle
R. Stables and the George Lee Le­
nox Farms.
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1950 _ RUSSELL PATE riding
LUCKY BUD, one of the many fine
Walking Ponies which has been
made by this young trainer over the
years.
1964 — DICKIE PATE riding
HAWK’S MEMORY to the Blue
in the Little Rock, Arkansas Horse
Show.
£2—.
TIME OUT — The only time that
these brothers get to see each other
is at the Horse Shows and here
they are seen relaxing together at
one such event.
1964 — RUSSELL PATE up on
EBONY’S BLACK LADY, 1964 Re­
serve Champion Two Year Old Filly
FAMILY MAN -Katherine, Rickie
and Dickie Pate are shown relax­
ing for a family picture last Christ­
mas.