TARHEEL REVIEW by Elaine and Harold Thacker Rt . 5 , Winston-Salem , N . C .
The North Carolina State Championship was held in the Dorton Arena in Raleigh , N . C ., on September 22-25 . 1965 . The Honorable J . H . NOBLIN was the Walking Horse Judge . The show managers were BOB and BILL DILLON .
The Walking Horse Champion for 1965 is April Love . This fine mare , ridden by ALBERT ROWLAND of Lewisburg , Tenn ., is owned by Martin ’ s Grill Meat Co ., Gadsden , Ala .
Mr . DONALD PASCHAL up for Sally Hill Farms of Florence , S . C . and Fayetteville , N . C . rode two fine horses to victory . One was Cindy ’ s Shadow , who won the Walking Mare Class , and Eternal Sun won the Walking Stallion and Gelding Class .
RONNIE CLEMENT , Hickory , rode Alvin to victory in the Amateur Walking Stallion and Gelding Class and again in the Walking Horse Amateur Stake . Ronnie also rode Go Boy ’ s Nancy to the winners circle in the Amateur Walking Mare Class . Both Alvin and Go Boy ’ s Nancy are owned by Clement ’ s Stables , Hickory , N . C .
Captain Applejack , a wonderful black gelding , was ridden to victory by Miss BETTY BLOUNT . Fairlane Stables , Bethel , N . C ., owns Applejack . The Ladies Walking Class was won by Go Boy ’ s Ebony Angel with CANDACE WILLIAMS up . Candace and Ebony Angel have been very successful these past two years . Ebony Angel is owned by the Sally Hill Farms . The State Champion Two-Year-Old is King of the Road . He is owned by Mr . & Mrs . CHARLES BLACK BURN , High Point , N . C ., and trained by Mr . KENNY PRICE . The weather was perfect for a horse show and the attendance was GREAT . The arena was filled to the brim both with spectators and horses .
Big moving in North Carolina in brief : Mr . C . A . BOBO has left Thomasville , N . C . to be the trainer and General Manager of GLL Farms .
Mr . KENNY PRICE moved from Northwood Stables to open his own barn . What was once C . A . Bobo and Sons Stables now is Kenny Price Stables . Mr . KENNETH BURK has his own barn in Fayetteville , N . C . Kenneth has been showing very good horses since he has been on his own . The new Fairlane Stables of Bethel , N . C . has a new trainer , Mr . SAM CECIL , JR .
Elaine and I wish all of these trainers the best of
luck in their new barns .
The Concord , N . C . Horse Show was held the first of October .
There was one horse and his get who dominated the whole show . The horse is Midnight Hap . Hap is owned by Dr . EDWARD JONES , Thomasville , N . C . Hap won the Stalljon and Gelding Class and the Championship Stake . Hap ’ s Honey Gold won the Three-Year-Old Filly Class .
King of the Road won the Two-Year-Old Championship Class . All of the above horses are trained by Kenny Price . There will be another Hap colt in the show ring next year . His name is Hap ' s Masterpiece . This fine black colt is owned by Mr . and Mrs . KENNETH MY ERS , of Winston-Salem , N . C . Kenny Price will train this colt , too .
VIOLA AND THE TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE " Birthplace and Nursery of Champions ”
The above item was brought to our attention during the recent National Celebration . It is part of a collection of pictures and other Walking Horse historical items that are on display at the Walking Horse Inn in Wartrace , Tennessee . A note of special interest at this time is the mention of Midnight Sun as the " current Champion ,” which places the time of its origin in 1945 or 1946 .
The approach of the horse owner who prepared this for public display was to tie in his homeplace of Viola , Tennessee , with the origin of many famous Tennessee Walking Horses . Notice the reference to " some forty years ago ,” which , at the time this picture was made , would place his reference to the early 1900 ’ s . Specific reference is made to the year 1903 and to a black Standard-bred stud by the name of Allen F-l which , according to the author , made many seasons , along with his noted son Allen F-38 , in and around Warren and Coffee Counties . Another item of great interest is the specific reference that , at that time , one-half of the World ’ s Champions of the National Celebration were furnished by this community . We refer to Middle Tennessee , and Wartrace especially , as the " cradle of the breed ” and this certainly lends credence to this belief .
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