Three-Year-Old Walking Geldings will be eight in number , mares the same age will be 14 in number , and Walking Stallions which are four and over will have half-a-dozen . Gaited classes this first night will be for three-and-under fine harness horses , junior five-gaited horses , and fivegaited stallions or geldings — all are well filled . Fine harness ponies , road horses and a grooms ’ class will complete the program .
Two-year-old walking stallions or geldings will compete Friday night in a ring with 24 entries . There are eight four-and-over walking geldings and 10 four-and-over walking mares
in two of the classes that are preliminary to the Grand Championship
Walking Horse Stake . A flock of good five-gaited ponies will be on Friday night ’ s program , as will five-gaited mared , three-gaited horses and road horses to bike . This is the night for the showing of two-year-old futurity walking horses and the championship walking yearling colts . The big night is Saturday , September 5 . In addition to the Grand Championship Walking Stake , to crown the " champion walking horse of the world ,” there ’ s the Junior Championship Walking Stake , the Champion Walking Stallion any age , Walking Ponies , Three-Year-Old Walking Stallions and Three-Gaited Ponies .
TROPHIES AT SHELBYVILLE : The NASHVILLE BANNER trophy , a handsome sterling silver pitcher , will be presented to the winner of the Junior Championship Walking Stake . The Boyd-Chevrolet trophy ! will go to the winner of the Grand Championship Walking Stake . The Boyd-Oldsmobile trophy will be given to the winner of the Four-and-Over Walking Mare Class ; the Celebration , Inc ., donates the trophy for the Champion Yearling Walking Colt ,
and Jess M . Talley of Nashville presents the trophy to the Champion
Weanling Walking Colt . The Nashville Tennessean trophy , a sterling bowl , will go to the winner of the Five-Gaited Championship Stake .
In addition to these trophies thej
cash prizes total $ 4,045 to class and I stake winners . And the ribbons are j heavy and handsome .
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SHELBYVILLE MISCELLAN- !
EOUS — The war has had its effect , on the naming of horses and colts . This applies both to Walking Horses ! and Saddle Horses and Gaited Pon- i ies . Several entered on the Celebra- ! tion Horse Show program are named !
General McArthur . Only one can have that name as is — the others are preceded by the name of the person who owns them . There ’ s a
JEAN McARTHUR and a Jean Faircloth . Also , such names as FIRST
LIEUTENANT , TOP SERGEANT , and BUC PRIVATE . There ’ s also a BOMBARDIER , a SLAP-A-JAP and a MR . DEFENSE STAMP . These are names that have bobbed up since Pearl Harbor .
And speaking of the last-named horse : All net profits from the Celebration Horse Show will be invested
in war bonds by the executive committee which is composed of Clyde Tune , chairman ; Franklin Boyd , vice chairman ; Phil Scudder , secretarytreasurer ; and William Parker , finance chairman .
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( EDITOR ’ S NOTE - The following
article appeared in the same issue of the NASHVILLE BANNER as did
the previous story . It is of current interest due to the fact that Steve Hill is one of our judges for the 1969 Celebration . We hope Steve had a successful sale that day back in September of 1942 .)
STEVE HILL SALE-Fifty head of Tennessee walking horses will be offered to the highest bidder at the old fairgrounds at Murfreesboro on Thursday , September 3 , at 10 a . m . The one-and-only Steve Hill of Beech Grove is putting this sale on and you can lay to it that he will have some quality walkers there . He has personally selected the horses of this
DON ' T MISS THIS FINE SOUTH GEORGIA SHOW SEPTEMBER 13 , 1969
The Cairo-Grady County J . C . Horse Show
Cairo , Georgia
12 Walking Horse Classes
TWO PERFORMANCES 1:30 & 7:00 P . M .
Judge Hon . Sonny Parsons Covington , Tennessee lot which he did not breed himself . There ’ s a honey in a two-year-old stud by WILSON ’ S ALLEN 350075 which Steve thinks is a comer — he ’ s
a knowing horseman who is a good picker . These half-a-hundred horses
are by such famous sires as MERRY BOY 350189 , BRANTLEY ’ S ROAN ALLEN JR ., 350066 , WILSON ’ S AL LEN 350075 , ROAN ALLEN AGAIN 390158 , CURLEE ’ S SPOTTED AL LEN 350194 , and HILL ’ S WILSON ALLEN 390458 . In the lot are yearlings , two-year-olds , three-year-olds , brood mares and foals , stallions , and
top pleasure horses . There ’ s your chance to get a good one at your own price .
TENNESSEE WALKING HORSES
STABLES
Route # 1 Carriere , Mississippi
Phone : 601 / 798-1631 Owner :
RAY GIBBINS Buras , Louisiana
G . G . “ Pete ” Breeland , Trainer
Dalton
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