AGE STALLIONS SENSATIONAL SHADOW Wallace Brandon, up
THREE-YEAR-OLD CHAMPIONSHIP
GO BOY ' S BLACK ROOSTER Carlton Pius, up
OWNER-AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
GO BOY ' S CHATTERBOX Candace Williams, up
JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
MR. FREE WHEEL Jimmy Ellis, up
PONY CHAMPIONSHIP SETTING SUN ' S APOLLO Lynn Doughty, up
GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP
ACE ' S SENSATION Wink Groover, up of Orrville, Alabama, was outstanding in this event, and the big bay stud by MACK K’ S HANDSHAKER certainly lived up to his name as he " free-wheeled” his way around the ring to victory. Reserve was DAT’ S-DE-BABE, the Junior Mare Champion, ridden by C. A. Bobo for Bill Tomlinson, and tying third was the Fashion Two Twenty favorite, GREGG’ S PER FECTION, ridden by Albert Rowland. It was a fine class that set the stage for the grand championship.
As usual, the Amateur Championship at Montgom ery was one of the best. Winning the blue was the ever-popular GO BOY’ S CHATTERBOX in his finest performance since the Spring Jubilee. The fancy bay stallion, ridden by Candace Williams, showed his met tle as he worked his way in and out of the large class under the experienced guidance of Miss Williams. Another popular bay stallion was making himself known as Lloyd Wood piloted his " big-lick” CLOWN’ S SPUR to the Reserve Championship. Lloyd made a superb show and had championship form on the last pass that left no doubt in the minds of many as to the ability of this fine horse. Third was HILL’ S PERFEC TION, the Juvenile Champion, ridden by KimLovette.
Carlton Pitts made the finest ride of his career as he guided GO BOY’ S BLACK ROOSTER to victory in the Three-Year-Old Championship for Capt. and Mrs. E. A. Self of Mobile, Alabama. This black stud is also much improved over his Celebration performance and gave rise to his continued championship qualities in the future. Reserve was SHAKER’ S BLACK DEVIL with Boyd Hudgins up for Carson Sands of Claxton, Georgia. Third was another highly-touted stallion, DELIGHT’ S MAGIC BAY, ridden by Jack Johnson for Link Spainhour of North Wilkesboro, N. C. This was a fine class that clearly indicated that our breed is improving every year.
The Two-Year-Old Championship was one of the best we have seen in years. There were more fine young horses in this class than in any we have seen lately. Riding for the blue was SHADOW’ S ROYAL FLUSH, with Mack Motes up for Bailey, Motes and Orrell. The preliminary stallion class was won by Billy Hale’ s EBONY’ S BLACK MARKET with Wink Groover up. Wink declined to show back in the stake, however. Reserve in the Championship was CALL OF THE WILD, a fancy bay stallion by CARBON COPY that was ridden by C. A. Bobo for Bill Tomlinson. Watch these horses in the future— they all have great potential.
The Walking Pony Championship was won by the outstanding team of Lynn Doughty and SETTING SUN’ S APOLLO, with a close reserve being tallied by Larry Martin on ECHO’ S LITTLE MAN. Larry de feated Lynn at Murfreesboro earlier this year and she came back to defeat him at the Celebration. Both of these fine young people are good sports and fine ex hibitors, and we hope to see a lot of truly fine con tests between them and their ponies in the future. This was one of the finest Walking Pony Classes we have ever seen, and all but two or three of the entries would have measured under the standard. The horses
in this class didn’ t tie anyway, but they were some what hard to see over.
The Juvenile Class saw a ring full of fine horses and
competitors. It was HILL’ S PERFECTION and Kim Lovette that tied the blue with Greg Gochneaur mak ing a fine show to tie reserve on EBONY ROSE. Jan Wright was third on GO BOY’ S BLACK BARON.
16- Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse