Bits & Spurs
By Sharon Terry Box 1178 Slale College, Miss.
Hello again for this beautiful month of July. I have recently returned from the Portsmouth, Ohio Show, where I saw many good horses perform. The Portsmouth classes were well filled with horses from several states, and the show was a big success. I particularly enjoyed seeing some of the different breeds of horses which we don’ t have in this vicinity, such as the Morgan horse.
Another note of interest at the Portsmouth Show was the fact that stallions. were permitted to show in Ladies’ and Juvenile classes. A prominent Ohio Walking Horse exhibitor told me that in that part of the country people do not discriminate against ladies showing stallions, but fully believe that the capable ladies should be allowed to show their mounts where they choose. The rule which bars stallions is not entirely fair because it does not bar stallions from the Walking Pony classes. If stallions are to be barred, they should be barred altogether or not at all.
Marvin Wilson won the Stallion and Gelding Class and the Stake at Portsmouth on my Gelding, SUN’ S DARK DEMON. I showed him to win the Amateur Stake there that Saturday night. Marvin is doing a great job with all of the horses he is working.
While at Portsmouth, I talked to Paul Sickles, who has a training stable in Athens, Ohio. Paul is working a black roan two-year-old stallion by SHADOW’ S REPLICA, who really promises to be a great horse. This colt is owned by M. L. Magnusson and Paul Sickles. Paul has a lot of good horses in his barn and will be making many of the Ohio shows this year.
Fray Escue of Covington, Kentucky, has a top string of show horses this season. The star of the Escue stables, though, is Nancy Escue, riding her well-known pony, SHADOWr’ S JET. Nancy and JET have won most of their shows this season and I predict that they will win many more.
Eleven-year-old Muriel Ann Brinkley of Shelbyville wrote me to tell me about her gelding, CHANCE’ S GYPSY SUN, who is in training with James N.“ Casey” Jones, also of Shelbyville. Muriel is new in the horse business and will be riding in juvenile classes this summer. She also owns a Walking Pony, SUN’ S GLITTER BOY, and a two-year-old colt. SHADOW’ S RED
FLAME. Thirteen-year-old Jane Yeager of Blountsville,
Alabama, says she has a nice juvenile horse, a six-yearold gelding bv the name of ELDER ' S SUNSET. Jane’ s parents own a three-vear-old stud by SPUR’ S CLOWN, CLOWN’ S IMAGE. They also have a tan chestnut mare by CLOWN, CLOWN’ S FIRST LADY.
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T. W. H. B. & E. A. A. OBSERVES RECORD YEAR Annual Meeting of Breeders ' Association
Indicates Expansion of Walking Horse Interest
Saturday morning, May 22, 1965, President W. W. GILL called to order the annual meeting of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ and Exhibitors’ Association of America in the headquarters building of the Association in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Recognition of guests and new members was followed by a motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. This motion carried unanimously. Mrs. MARIANNE HAWKINS( Secretary-Treasurer) then read the Treasurer’ s Report, listing total income in 1964 in excess of $ 122,000.00 and expenses of $ 88,512.57. The report of the Treasurer was accepted and ordered to be filed.
COLONEL H. TOM FULTON( Executive Secretary) then reported to the membership that 1964 was indeed a record year for the Association. " More than 5,200 colts were registered in 1964, brgining the total number of Walking Horses registered here with the Association to more than 70,000,” Colonel Fulton reported. The membership of the Association now exceeds 2,000, and public acceptance of the Walking Horse is at an all-time high, with shows, classes and exhibitors featuring the breed growing almost beyond belief. Colonel Fulton cited particularly the rapid increase in classes for Walking Horses at the Kentucky State Fair as evidence of public acceptance. " Your Board of Directors is working hard to clean up the problems in the Walking Horse business,” the executive continued.
Upon Colonel Fulton’ s suggestion a motion was made, seconded and carried ratifying the actions taken by the board during the past year.
A rising note of thanks was given to Colonel Fulton for his continuing labors in a difficult and demanding position.
Mr. CARL HENGEN, President of the American Walking Horse Association, was recognized, and he expressed the desire for his organization to further the aims and purposes of the Association in making the Tennessee Walking Horse the most popular breed of all. There being 807 votes by proxy held at the meeting and about 50 in person, a quorum was declared and two new Directors of the Association were elected for three-year terms. The nominating committee presented Mr. ALBERT WRIGHT, Sharpsburg, Kentucky, and Mr. JOHN AMOS, Franklin, Tennessee; there being no nominations from the floor the nominees were elected by acclamation.
Among the topics discussed following the formal business session was the financial position of the Association. In response to a question raised by Mr. L. C. FRITSCHE, Shelbyville, Tennessee, the Treasurer reported that the total assets of the Association are currently $ 186,897.78: $ 161,859.65 in cash, and $ 25,038.13 for the book value of the headquarters building and equipment and for other items.
Soon to be released, Regulations for Registrations were discussed briefly, as were several other topics.
Upon a motion to adjourn, the group went to the Marshall County Recreation Center for a delicious luncheon and a period of further discussion of their interest in the Tennessee Walking Horse.
VOICE of the Tennessee Walking Horse