1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 June Voice | Page 11

PROFILES
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THE CARL INGLE STORY
Little things worth knowing travel from Shelbyville
to Flat Creek, then to New Hermon where, on the
right, there lives a man by the side of the road who
is one of the most respected men in the horse world
today. He has been in it a long time and can remem­
ber the shows he has seen featuring Merry Legs and
Wilson’s Allen.
In his modest barn by the side of the road he has a
four-year-old mare that, in his opinion, encompasses
all the virtues of the Tennessee Walking Horses that
he has seen over the years.
Our friend, CARL INGLE, is not what is termed
"well-off’ in worldly goods, but is by far one of the
richest men I have ever met. His barn is not impres­
sive or even large, by modern standards, but out of
this barn came two college educations struggling along
after the Depression. He saw a daughter who wanted
to go to college go to the Farmers’ Bank at Lynchburg
to arrange a college loan on her good