1969 Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1969 January Voice RS | Page 6

MACK K S
It's Not How Many
Mares You Breed...
It’s How Many
Colts You Get!
HANDSHAKER surveys his new domain as Trainer
Gene Adams contemplates the coming season. The
popular World Champion will stand in Sandersville,
Georgia at the CIRCLE A FARMS.
A PROVEN
CHAMPION..
A PROVEN
PRODUCER!
MACK K’S HANDSHAKER . . . 1960 WORLD
CHAMPION ... TO STAND IN GEORGIA
As a breed, the Tennessee Walking Horse is only
thirty-nine years old this season. The traditions of
this breed, however, are still of great interest to
horsemen everywhere. It is most interesting to study
the background and slow development of the breed
that has led up to the amazingly popular Tennessee
Walking Horse of today. In analyzing the tradition of
the breed we go back, naturally, to ALLAN F-l (note
that the spelling is ALLAN and not ALLEN as seen
on the papers of his progeny) and find some very in­
teresting facts that explain the emergence of such
outstanding horses as MACK K’S HANDSHAKER.
The F-1 foundation horse does not even appear on
the papers of HANDSHAKER. ROAN ALLEN F-38 is
the outstanding fifth-generation sire on his pedigree,
and yet we cannot overlook the depth of breeding that
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produced the horse originally named BLACK ALLAN,
for it is blood such as his that ultimately produced
our champions of today. Described as a "trotter and
pacer with speed at both gaits 2:25,” ALLAN F-l was
foaled in 1886. He was a black stallion with a sock
on his near hind, a white-to-ankle off hind, and a
blaze. He was bred by E. D. Herr of Lexington, Ky.
In studying this background we can see some of
the blood that still runs strong in the veins of today’s
outstanding horses. While some authorities firmly state
that there is very little chance of any horse past the
third generation influencing breeding, we still believe
that the traits produced by these horses still mark
our breed. ALLAN F-l was by ALLANDORF, a fash­
ionable harness horse of his day, and out of a mare
named MAGGIE MARSHALL, by BRADFORD’S TEL­
EGRAPH, a Morgan horse. So ... in addition to trot-
ter and pacer blood, we also find other breeds in the
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