GO BOY ’ S SHADOW - ■ •
MONARCH OF THE BREED
The seventeenth of this month , GO BOY ’ S SHADOW will celebrate his fifteenth birthday . If we were marking this event as a wedding anniversary it would be in order to send him “ crystal ,” as that is the prescribed gift for the fifteenth year . It is our opinion , however , that a stallion such as SHADOW demands something more fitting than a goblet or a vase . He , in fact , deserves a lot more than most of us realize . SHADOW has made a contribution to the modern-day Tennessee Walking Horse that is probably without par .
Everything about . SHADOW has been “ above average ” since he was foaled . His sire was MERRY GO BOY , a head start to say the least . His dam presented another side of the top blood ledger . MERRY WALKER was highly recognized in her own right . These two outstanding horses , sire and dam , carried depth in fine breeding that would have been hard to beat fifteen year ago . In the last two generations of SHADOW ’ S pedigree , we find fourteen Foundation Horses as well as several recognized
Standardbred and Thoroughbred stallions including GIOVANNI , JIM DANDY II , FRANCESCA and MINOR HEIR , not to mention our own ALLAN F-l five times . This is top breeding in anybodys book . How much this fine breeding had to do with the performance of SHADOW in the show ring is a question which has been discussed many times . His sire has been promoted as a “ seven times World Champion .” SHADOW himself was World Grand Champion two times , in 1955 and 1956 ,
an as a breeding stallion he appears to have the attributes necessary to pass along the “ quality , ability and
stamina ” necessary for todays modern show horses . This is perhaps , the most significant contribution that SHADOW
has made to the Walking Horse World .
^HADOW is a beautiful horse , the epitome of what a alkmg Horse should be . He is a big horse , standing over sixteen hands and is solid black except for one white r ,° n * S ^ar foot and a white star and a snip . On <
C outstan < hng characteristics of SHADOW is hi
4 VOICE of the Tennessee Walking Hon