1967-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1967 December Voice | Page 6

MR. GLO
1967 Southern Grand Champion
Tennessee Walking Horse
Elmore Brock, up
£leuentlt Annual
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP
CHARITY
HORSE SHOW
The 1967 Southern Championship . . . commonly
referred to as the "big Montgomery Show” . . . was a
roaring success as far as Tennessee Walking Horses
are concerned. Not quite true to form as being "the
place where the World Champions get beat,” the
show this year saw several outstanding World Champ­
ions defend their crowns successfully. Judge Steve Hill
did a commendable job although he, too, succumbed
to the overwhelming task of judging "Celebration­
sized” classes. It is most difficult for one man to judge
classes as large as these, and on several occasions
he had to work them longer than necessary to get
the job done.
The facilities at Montgomery are the best and Mrs.
John Bowers, carryin g on for her late husband, did
her usual excellent job of handling the details of the
show. The Southern Championship Horse Show Asso­
ciation, Inc. is very well managed with maximum em­
phasis being given to exhibitors. Master of Ceremon­
ies O’Neil Howell did his usual superb job at the mike
and the well-known Jimmy Richardson was at the
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console of his ageless Hammond organ, giving a full­
time program of entertainment. Harry Sargent, mov­
ing about as briskly as always, was on hand to take
the ribbon pictures.
The big attraction of the Saturday night finale was
the Tennessee Walking Horse Championship Stake.
With several outstanding age horses in contention,
the big talk before the class was whether or not the
Three-Year-Old World’s Champion, ACE’S SENSA­
TION, would actually be shown. After he entered the
ring, the next big question was whether or not he
could go with the big-time age horses, such as MR.
GLO, DUKE’S HANDY MAN, GO BOY’S BLACK
LABEL, QUARTERBACK SNEAK and GO BOY’S
CHATTERBOX. After Judge Hill had his preliminary
workout he split the class and called his top horses
to the rail. It was obvious from the start that they
were all strong contenders but as the class reversed
it was MR. GLO, ridden by Elmore Brock of Sparta,
Tennessee, who forged ahead with a display of natu
ral three-gait perfection that was outstanding. 1 hi
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