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Deep South Winner Tops Nation ' s Best in Bid For Championship
The three Deep South Shows which follow the Celebration always stir a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the Walking Horse business , and this year was certainly no exception . One of the primary reasons for the enthusiasm generated by these shows is the fact that down through the years they have seen many recently-crowned World Champions go down to defeat . Also many of the top horses , who because of injury or other reasons were unable to compete in the Celebration , are exhibited in these shows . The notion that these shows are " the places where the champions get beat ” is well-imbedded in the minds of many horse enthusiasts , and consequently they throng to Mobile , Baton Rouge or Montgomery to witness the upsets .
But this year we could easily be seeing that trend changed and another one begun . Rather than chamion being beat , there is a good chance that a real champion has been made . GO BOY ’ S FLYING CLOUD and Ronnie Spears were outstanding in winning the stallion and stake classes at both Mobile and Baton Rouge , thus labeling themselves as one of the early favorites in the annual battle for the top award in the Tennessee Walking Horse business .
Ronnie and his coal-black stud have come a long way in a short time , but they are not about to quit
4 and rest on their laurels by any stretch of the imagination . They have set the Grand Championship as eir goal and their performance at the Mobile and a on Rouge shows certainly proves their desire to attain this goal . t GbOUD is the property of Mr . and Mrs
• . Eldridge of Oviedo , Florida , who have owned m irom the time he was foaled . Mr . Eldridge bought mare in foal and the colt she presented her proud W ° Wn^as a ? ine black stallion who was prompthla * i ? med G0 BOY ’ S FLYING CLOUD . This coalold^MPRVDvy^r ' 0ld is by MERRY GO BOY out of an pediS ° Y mare ’ 80 he lacks nothing in hiS
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. kill-time basis necessary to bring out his fV . ^nrin^-3uak^es ‘ R ° nnie began showing him dr
Honda Sunshine Circuit in 1965 and with j terCH ,?« At Winter Haven he won the stake clas Orin « ing raserve m the stud class . The next stop = do , where they captured both the stud and ou ’ eat which was duplicated at the Miami s offpr ai yj *? r tbis Ronnie accepted a good trai and 1 hl CVcle R Stables in West Point , Missis : the horse with Mr . Eldridge in Florid
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