by Miss Carlene Holt Stillwater, Minnesota
WALK ON, MINNESOTA!
by Miss Carlene Holt Stillwater, Minnesota
The 1966 Tri-State winners were awarded at the annual awards dinner of the Tri-State Horsemen’ s Association. In the amateur Walking Horse division the winner was SUNLIGHT SULTAN owned and shown by Miss Carlene Holt, Stillwater, Minnesota. Reserve award went to VELVET’ S POWERHOUSE, owned and shown by Miss Gail Mohn, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The winner in the open Walking Horse division was GLORY’ S FIREBALL B owned by the Blue Gate Farm of Stillwater, Minnesota. Reserve honors were awarded to CHESTER’ S WALKAWAY also owned by the Blue Gate Farm.
Here and There
Heard from Mrs. Vi Johnson of LaCrescent, Minnesota, that she’ s the proud new owner of a sorrel weanling filly. This little Walker carries double old MERRY BOY breeding.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cool of Stillwater, Minnesota are among the many new faces in the“ Walking Horse
crowd.” They’ ve purchased CHESTER’ S WALKAWAY, a coal black gelding and also just recently bought a twoyear-old sorrel stud colt named GO BOY’ S HIGH JINKS. The colt is in training out of state.
Jean Jasinsky( Whitesell) of Minneapolis has sold her fine black pleasure mare SCARLET SECRET and has a new“ baby!” Not so little this baby— a big, bold, black three-year-old colt named DAWN’ S REBEL. He’ s
in training at the Hawkeye Melody Farm in Grundy- Center, Iowa. By all reports— he’ s going great! Jean’ s influence seems to have spread to her good friend Sharon Dunne who has purchased a full-sister to Jean’ s colt— a real pretty black filly!
The Donald Swisher family of Stillwater seems to be getting the“ horse fever” as far as Walking Horses arc concerned. They started last fall by purchasing MERRY
FLASPI-S., a chestnut pleasure marc from Woodlane Farm. Mr. Swisher has been learning to ride this good
mare and enjoys every minute of it. Their newest purchase is a beautiful bay roan mare MERRY MISS G. from the Eyre Walking Horse Stable of Grundy Center, Iowa. This new mare has the most wonderful disposition— and best of all, she’ s due to foal in May— another new addition to the Swisher’ s herd! Little Miss Molly Swisher is very busy already picking out names for the coming foal.
END O’ LANE FARM— Cloquet, Minnesota
I’ ve had some very interesting correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. John LaTour, owners of End O’ Lane Farm, and also had an afternoon to visit with them not long ago. They report they have just started raising Walkers
and, to quote Mrs. LaTour“ we just love them.” They sent along some copies of the registration papers for their horses and they are certainly pedigrees to be proud of:
MERRY MAKER SUE— a sorrel mare, sired by a grandson of MERRY BOY and out of a GIOVANNI and MITCH F-5 bred mare.
JUPITER’ S DEBUTANTE— a fine chestnut filly sired by a grandson of MIDNIGHT SUN and out of a marc by SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS by SIR MAU-
GRAY. GRAHAM’ S MERRY MELODY— a sorrel mare carrying MERRY BOY and WILSON’ S ALLEN on her papers.
We certainly wish the best of luck to the LaTour’ s. With fine foundation stock such as these, they are surely off to an excellent start in raising Tennessee Walking Horses.
If all goes well, Mrs. LaTour intends to show the
beautiful chestnut Walker stallion SHINING JUPITER for owners Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hanke of Duluth. Good
luck for the 1967 show season!
Woodlane Farm, Stillwater, Minnesota
Over the winter things have been sort of quiet around our place. Every nice weekend, however, we seem to have some out of town visitors. We certainly do appreciate
the 40 x 150 foot indoor area erected before the snow fell last fall. This has enabled us to keep riding all winter
long
Ṁr. Roger Luhning of Battle Lake, Minnesota spent an afternoon with us this past winter. He owns several Walking Horses carrying exceptionally fine registration papers. He enjoyed riding some of our horses including our stallion MACK K’ S MAMBO. We also proudly showed him our black three-year-old filly MILADY MIDNIGHT who was started under saddle this winter. Mr. Luhning is certainly an interesting person to talk to.
He’ s very enthusiastic about Walking Horses which he has been raising for about ten years. He also visited for a while at Blue Gate Farm. Please keep sending in your Walking Horse news and information for future articles.
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