WALK ON. MINNESOTA
by MISS CARLENE HOLT WOODLANE FARM R. R. 5 Stillwater, Minnesota
Looking back, the past season was a busy one for Walking Horses and their owners here in Minnesota. The-June All-Walking Horse Show, sponsored by the Minnesota Walking Horse Association, was again a huge success. Already plans are under way for an even bigger show in 1970. The Minnesota Walking Horse Association held its annual election and dinner meeting in November at the Venetian Inn in St. Paul. There was a good turnout of voting members. Since all present officers had served two consecutive terms in office they could not, according to MW HA by-laws, be elected to the same office for 1970. An election for 1970 officers and two board members was held with the following results: President, Miss Carlene Holt, Stillwater; Vice President, Harold-lessen, Osseo; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Stacey Wright, Stillwater. Elected to the board for threeyear terms were Gene W. Miller of Cambridge and(' lark Wright of Stillwater. Other board members at present are Miss Connie Flodin, St. Paul;-John Kop, Prior Lake; and Donald Swisher, Stillwater.
The Tri-State Horsemen ' s awards were presented in three categories for Tennessee Walking Horses. These awards are earned on a point system throughout the entire show season— each one means lots of hard work and determination. Amateur Champion- NIGHT SONG H. G.. owned by Dr. Dorothy Muirhead. Hastings Reserve- SUNLIGHT SULTAN, owned by Carlene Holt, Stillwater. Open Champion- INVASION’ S BIG BOY, owned by Permanent Construction Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: Reserve- NIG HI’ SONG H. G. Junior Champion- GO HANNAH, owned by Miss Terri Larson, St. Paul; Reserve- HILL’ S GO BOY AGAIN, owned by Barwinn Stables, West Bend, Wis. The Donald Swisher family of Stillwater is anxiously watching their beautiful new stable take shape. It will be 50 x 90 feet with ten roomy box stalls, hay and straw storage areas and a large heated tack-lounge room. The Swishers have many fine ' Tennessee Walking Horses including three well-bred broodmares, a two-year-old filly, a yearling gelding and two 1969 foals. ' The Swishers’ fine new stable is still another added to the ever-growing number of excellent horse facilities for all breeds in the Stillwater area.
Mrs. Ann Newman, Bayport, reports that she’ s getting along very well in learning to ride her show gelding, NEWMAN’ S WALKAWAY. This black show horse is now at the Sharon Lee Hoffman Stable at Hastings along with a two-year-old chestnut filly. NEWMAN’ S WALKAWAY placed well in the Wisconsin point system this year and brought home two fine trophies to be added to the Newmans’ growing collection.
Logan Potter of Windom, Minnesota reports that he has several Tennessee Walking Horses trained and used as working ranch horses. He expresses interest in having classes in which the Walking Horse can be shown under Western equipment. Several other Walking Horse owners have said they would be interested in classes of this type.
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Triemert, North St. Paul, recently transported their two 1969 Walking Horse foals( purchased from Woodlane Farm) to her parents’ farm. The foals are GO BOY’ S LADY McKAY and WALK AWAY’ S BLACK CHIEF( by GO BOY’ S WALKAWAY) and are the first Walking Horses ever owned by the Triemerts. They report everyone is enjoying the two foals very much.
I don’ t know about other parts of the country, but here in Minnesota it is the time of year that most of us have those show shoes off our show horses— we’ re watching them and all the stock growing ever longer and thicker winter coats— watching the yearlings finally starting to fill out and look like horses, the broodmares getting fatter— and it’ s certainly a great time to sit inside where it’ s warm, look out at the tento-twenty-degrees-below-zero weather, and map out the new strategy we plan to use in 1970!
BUSINESS ASPECTS OF HORSE PRODUCTION TO BE EMPHASIZED IN JANUARY STOCKMEN’ S SCHOOL
’ The business aspects of horse production will be of prime interest during the January 12-15 Stockmen’ s School in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. M. E. Ensminger, Director of the School, put it this way: " As we race to the year 2000 A. D., more and more horse enterprises will be conducted as a business, rather than as a hobby. As a result, the business aspects will be the most important single requisite for success in the horse business in the years ahead. Horsemen can, and must, prepare themselves accordingly. The Stud Managers’ Course is designed to meet this need.” The Stockmen’ s School will cover in depth the whole range of horse production— business aspects, breeding, feeding, health, management, and marketing. It’ s the largest and most complete Stockmen’ s Short Course in America.
Other pertinent facts about the January Stockmen’ s School are: 64 distinguished staff from the U. S., Canada, England, and Ireland( Dr. David Hyde, DVM, General Manager, Irish National Stud); 127 up-totheminute subjects; 5 to 8 sessions each hour from which to choose, with separate courses devoted to each horses, beef cattle( cow-calf and cattle feedlot), and dairying, and a special ten-day limited-enrollment horseshoeing course, January 12-22.
All lectures will be published in three attractive 8!/ 2” x 11” hardback books, with a separate book devoted to each horses, dairying, and beef cattle.
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