1967-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1967 December Voice | Page 4

MR.
GLO
bred, raised
and trained
to be a
Champion!
MR. GLO looks the part of the proud champion,
even on a cold, rainy day in Sparta, Tennessee, as
trainer Elmore Brock contemplates his future.
It was in Pikeville, a small community located in
the Cumberland Plateau of upper Tennessee, in the
summer of 1964 that we first saw a horse named
MR. GLO. Trainer Elmore Brock had brought a truck-
load to a horse show and had hauled a particularly
good-looking two-year-old along "just for the ride.”
An inquiry revealed that the horse was a colt that
Elmore had bred and raised himself, and that he was
not working the colt too hard since he had several
good two-year-olds that belonged to customers. As
the summer wore on, however, MR. GLO came to the
forefront as being the best two-year-old in the barn
and, after only a few trips into the showring, he was
entered in the Celebration, where he tied high in the
Two-Year-Old Stud Class and the Stake.
Still without an owner, MR. GLO was worked slowly
and deliberately by Mr. Brock as the horse became
a three-year-old. Elmore recalls that he "took his
canter as easily as he had his other two gaits” and
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he was natural and easy-going in all three. By the
time he became a three-year-old, this fancy bay stud
was beginning to have all the earmarks of greatness.
He had the bloodlines, the conformation and the natu­
ral ability to "go places.” It was in the spring of 1965
that Mr. Frank "Tutt” Metcalf, a long-time friend of
the Brocks and a horse owner, saw MR. GLO and
decided to buy him. Reminding him that he already
had a good three-year-old in a horse named SUN’S
HIGH FASHION, Elmore sold MR. GLO to Frank
Metcalf of Sparta, Tennessee.
During the summer of 1965 MR. GLO was shown
only a few times. It was the other horse that they
concentrated on and it was the other horse that made
the trip to the Celebration. Obviously the break in
the routine was a great asset to MR. GLO, because
he continued to improve during the year that he was
a three-year-old. Fall and winter came and, as t e
new year rolled around and MR. GLO became a Jun-
Horse
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