season has been one of strenuous work and tough competition. Thus far both horses are undeieated with their victories at the Columbia Spring Jubilee ranking highest in the minds of most observers as being the
best show of the year.
Donald Paschal is no newcomer to the top ranks of Celebration competition. Like many other professionals, he has knocked at the door on several occasions and has not yet " found the key." Donald has been a popular trainer for many years and is well known for his performances on such champion horses as SUN’ S GO BOY, SUN’ S BIG SHOT, PAPER DOLL, SUN’ S GO BOY AGAIN, GO BOY’ S BLACK JACK, GO BOY’ S BLACK LABEL, CINDY SHADOW, GO BOY’ S EBONY ANGEL, ETERNAL SUN, SUN’ S TEXAS GAL, EBONY’ S OLD CROW. BLACK GOLD, and now GO BOY’ S ROYAL HEIR.
Donald Paschal was raised in Walking Horse country and has really known no livelihood other than being a
" gentleman farmer’’ and a professional trainer. He has lived and worked on his farm in Woodbury, Tennessee for many years and has literally worn out several barns on this property. Three years ago he completed a new show stable that is a credit to our business. He and his assistant, Carlton Pitts, have a reputation for " working horses’’ and together they work over twenty-two head. Many times, as people pass along the highway from Woodbury to Murfreesboro, they will have to slow down to get around the
cars parked along the road. Everybody knows Donald and they know his horses, and if you are early enough you can pull up and enjoy the cool, crisp air of Middle Tennessee at daybreak and watch Donald Paschal and GO BOY’ S ROYAL HEIR hard at work. In just a few weeks, this pair will be hard at work but under entirely different conditions. The atmosphere will be tense and a pall of smoke will hang over the brilliant Celebration arena. Donald Paschal will take a deep breath and, with a mass of supporters, will carry GO BOY’ S ROYAL HEIR once again into the thick of the contest for the Grand Championship of the Walking Horse world.
THE REST OF THE TEAM— Pictured above is Candace Williams with her 1968 entry in the Celebration. He is GO BOY’ S CHATTERBOX, Reserve Grand Champion of the World in 1966. He has been trained by Donald Paschal and Carlton Pitts for the 1968 season and Candace heads for the Amateur Championship undefeated.
ALABAMA WALKING ON
Trainer Sonny Southerland has some nice horses in
training at Lake Valley Farms at Leeds, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Huddleston of Birmingham have
a pleasure Walking Horse, MY MISTER LUCKY, that is tying well. They also own SUN’ S STARDUST, a four-year-old, and a two-year-old stallion that has yet
to hit the show ring. The Ben Beckhams have three horses with Sonny.
GO BOY’ S MISS NASSAU is being shown by Woody Marks and he is doing an excellent job in juvenile
classes. Their aged gelding, BIG BEN, is having a successful season, as is MACK K’ S UNBELIEVABLE. Three ponies in training here are SOCIETY 22, JR.,
owned and shown by David Corley; MISTER MACK K, owned and shown by Brian Hulsey; and EBONY ANGEL, owned by Dr. H. C. Bailey.
In the Ladies Amateur Classes they have PRIDE OF NIGHT, owned and shown by Janet Hackney, and SUMMER WINE, owned and shown by Jeffery Ryding. Mark Hulsey from Gadsden has his amateur horse in training here, and it’ s working fine. In the four-year-old class is BLUE TANGO, owned by T. R.
COST.
SOCK IT TO ME GO BOY is a new four-year-old in the barn that will be shown in gelding and juvenile classes. Sonny has high hopes for this horse, purchased from Joe Vann Clayton.
Lake Valley Farms owns a black mare, B. MAJORS JUNE LIL, and a good bay two-year-old, MAN ABOUT TOWN. He has already brought home several blues this season. Their breeding stud, NIGHT OF PLEASURE, is a full brother to PLEASURE’ S MERRY BOY and has already produced several good prospects. Lake Valley Farms is owned by Tom Jernigan and is managed by trainer Sonny Southerland.
Congratulations to the people of the Warrior Athletic Booster Club on their first annual horse show. It was a great success and they are already planning for another show next year. Dr. H. Jean Gayle served as chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howard Calvert worked hard for this show, as did many more of the folks from Warrior.
Little Zack Calvert, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Calvert, made his first appearance in the juvenile class on GENTLEMAN, a twenty-five-yearold horse on which he learned to ride. Congratulations to Zack on a job well done.
8 Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse