Missouri Walking News
BY UNDA SCRiVNER ROGERSVILLE, MO. conformation in the Missouri Foxtrotting Horses. Bill Pickering was the third new board member. Members remaining on the board are: Roy Cooper, Springfield; Bob Bailey, Lebanon; O. L. Hall, Springfield; Dale Sharpe, Lebanon; Janet Green, Springfield; Dorrel Hanks and Paul Groom, also of Springfield. This association plans for a bigger and better year for 1968.
There are two very good horsemen’ s associations in Missouri that do excellent jobs of promoting horses and improving the shows in the area. The Southwest Missouri Horse Show Association is an all-breed association. This association held their 1967 Awards Dinner at the Kentwood Arms Hotel on Sunday, February 18. There was a very good crowd and everyone really enjoyed the fellowship. In the Walking Horse division there were four championship trophies given. Rex P. Kreider, Jr. and his great black mare, LIM OUSINE’ S DELIGHT, won the Grand Championship award in the Open Walking Horse Class. This mare has been practically unbeatable, winning 17 blues out of 19 shows in 1967.
The Reserve Championship in this division went to Bill Pickering, Jr. of Rogersville and his good PINUP horse. This pair won consistently all season. The Amateur Championship was won by SUN’ S ROCK- AWAY BOMBER with owner Herbert Mouse of Adrian, Missouri up. Reserve Champion in this division was won by Bill Pickering on his other top horse, SUN DUST’ S RHYTHM. The Junior Champion was MID NIGHT JET for owner O. L. Hall of Springfield. Reserve went to ROCKY HILL and Morris Collier of Fayetteville, Arkansas. This pair should be hard to
beat in the Amateur classes this season. Three-Year-
Old Champion was MERRY BELL’ S JUNE, owned by Francis Dulin of Brookline. Gene Henderson’ s GO
BOY’ S MARK was reserve in this division.
New officers were elected for the year of 1968. Bill Kissee of Ozark, Missouri is the newly-elected president. Bill always raises some top-bred horses and he has three Walking Horses in training with Sonny Scrivner at present. KISSIN’ KIN is a roan mare that was shown by Judy Kissee in Juvenile classes last year. Both horse and rider have improved
and should be a pair to watch this year. In the last two years these two have placed high in 24 out of 26 shows. Bill has two extra-good colts, too; one is a bay two-year-old by DANNY GO BOY, and the other is a flashy sorrel, SETTING SUN’ S PLAYBOY, that will sure be ready when the gate opens. The new vice president for 1968 is Rex Kreider, who also has a good two-year-old as well as his champion mare. Mr. Kreider is one who really enjoys horses and rides for the sport of it. Mrs. Evelyn Stone is the secretary. Her husband, Dean, has two young horses that he is riding: a four-year-old mare by MACK K and a three-year-old, SHADOW’ S PLAYBOY.
New directors for the season are Chester Beshears, trainer at High Haven Stables; Dwayne Crighton, who raises double-registered foxtrotting and Walking Horses. This is quite common around here, for many
Walking Horses can be made to slow down and foxtrot. The Walking Horses are putting more style and by Dee Smith Route 1, Box 117 Greencastle, Indiana
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Plans are nearly completed for the big Walking Horse Jubilee in northern Indiana, June 22-23. " Old Man Harvey” of Michigan City and G. R. Foster of La Porte are sponsoring this show. I will have more information on this next month.
Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Downing are remodeling their hundred-year-old barn which overlooks the Blue River Valley at Morristown, Indiana. Their operation, known as Hanover, is devoted exclusively to the breeding of fine Walking Horses and the young stock there is by MERRY GO BOY and EBONY MASTERPIECE. Dr. Downing was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at the last IWHA Directors’ meeting.
George Case, Henry Allenright and my husband, Richard Smith, spent a few days at Shelbyville, Ten nessee in January. They took our SHADOW’ S JOHN NY REBEL and the Cases’ three-year-old JIMMY to put in training with Joe and Judy Martin.
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