1969 Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1969 January Voice RS | Page 100

EAST TENNESSEE HORSE SHOW
ASSOCIATION AWARDS BANQUET
AWARD WINNERS — Front row, left to right: Karen Bramlett, Porkey Camp­
bell, little Miss Curtis, Miss Harrison, Leann McCluen. Back row: E. V. Long,
R. S. Jackson, Richard Mason, Joe Cope, Mrs. Cope, Miss Blunt, Jim Blunt.
The East Tennessee Horse Show Association held
its annual banquet meeting the latter part of the year
at the Green Meadows Country Club in Maryville,
Tennessee, to award trophies and ribbons for the 1968
show season.
There were sixteen clubs included in the association
this past year. The larger classes that each of the
club shows had this previous year is an indication
that the weekend dates, plus association-sponsored
horse shows, make for bigger and better horse shows.
The association has eighteen classes in the point sys­
tem which includes all Walking Horse classes. In 1969
they plan to add a two-year-old amateur class to the
point system. This class was tried at the Sweetwater,
Tennessee show in 1968 and many of the owners
showed great interest in it.
In addition the the Walking Horses classes, the as­
sociation shows include: Pleasure Ponies, Pleasure
Horses, English Pleasure, Road Ponies, Registered
and Grade Western, and Barre l Racing. Any of the
clubs may have additional classes if they wish, but
only the above-mentioned classes are used in the
point system for awards at the end of the year. Only
association members who register their horses in the
point system are eligible to compete for points. Dues
are S5.00 per member and $1.00 per horse registra­
tion per year.
At the annual banquet, trophies and ribbons are
presented to the first-place winners, with the second-
through fifth-place winners receiving ribbons. The
award winners for the 1968 season were: Karen Bram­
lett, Athens, and SIR HENRY’S TORNADO in Juven­
ile Classes; Porky Campbell, Loudon, and SUN DUST
in Pleasure Classes; Miss Curtis, Loudon, and PO CO
B. in Western Pleasure Classes; Miss Harrison, Lou­
don, and COUNT ME in English Pleasure Classes;
Leann McCluen, Rockwood, and MIDNIGHT REBEL
AIRE in Amateur Walking Horse Classes; E. V. Long,
Madisonville, and DANS DELIGHT in Three-Year-Old
Walking Horse Classes; E. V. Long and BURT LEE’S
DREAM in Pleasure Walking Horse Classes; R. S.
Jackson, Oak Ridge, and MIDNIGHT ROYALTY in
Two-Year-Old Walking Horse Classes; Richard Mason,
Madisonville, and GUNSMOKE’S ORCHARD in Walk­
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ing Mare Classes; Joe Cope, Greenback, and REBEL
in Barrel Racing; Mrs. Cope, Greenback, and BULLET
in Pleasure Horse Classes; Miss Blunt, Philadelphia,
with LITTLE TROUBLE MAKER in 18 and Under
Road Pony Classes; Jim Blunt, Philadelphia, and
LITTLE TROUBLE MAKER in Road Pony Classes;
Gene Evans, Maryville, and IKE in Western Reining
Classes; Gene Evans in Registered Quarter Horse
Classes; Linda Howell, Madisonville, and WILSON’S
DEAN AIRE in Four-Year-Old Walking Horse Classes;
and Tom Callahan, Maryville, and SHADOW’S IMAGE
in Walking Studs and Geldings Classes.
Officers were elected at the banquet for the 1969
season. They are: President, Russell S. Jackson, Oak
Ridge; Vice President, Owen Fullen, Athens; Secretary,
Leland Bacon, Rockwood; and Treasurer, J. C. Hinds,
Rockwood. Anyone interested in becoming a member
of this association is cordially invited to attend the
next meeting, February 18, 1969, at the Lamp Post
Restaurant in Madisonville, Tennessee.
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teries that befog the visions of so many breeders.
Through an unbroken line of sires and their dams,
the same law applies to the dams and their sires, all
of which are required to be of good conformation and
proven gaits through succeeding generations. This
law underwrites the only policy of a guarantee for a
desirable offspring.
As a comment on the prowess of Albert M. Dement
as the breed’s most versatile producer of outstanding
Tennessee Walking Horses, we point out that defi­
nitely no one during the past 50 years approaches
the well formulated program of this master breeder in
establishing the popular blood similar to that he gave
the breed through MERRY LEGS and her individual
contributions.
True enough, Mr. Dement might have made mis­
takes, but he quickly realized them. "Fisherman’s
luck” did not encourage him to continue a haphazard
breeding program. Albert Dement was ever alert for
a mare or stallion that could reproduce his high stan­
dard of perfect gaits, and very gew of his comtempo
raries knew the gaits better than this gentleman
whom the Tennessee Walking Horse fanciers should
ever revere. Had Mr. Dement produced and given us
only the Superior Foundation Mare, MERRY LEGS
F-4, are we not richer today, through this mare, as a
climax of a long-sought definite gift to the Tennessee
Walking Horse as a breed?
There is no better answer to this interrogation than
in the Grand Champion mare, DEMENT’S MERRY
LEGS II 350021 (LITTLE MERRY LEGS).
LITTLE MERRY LEGS was foaled in 1933 and won
the Grand Champion stake at the Tennessee State
Fair in 1936. Her breeding is strictly a product of the
masterful breeding of A. M. Dement. He bred her sire,
MERRY BOY, and also her dam, SKIP 350101 by
SLIPPERY JIM by GIOVANNI. SLIPPERY JIM’s dam
was NELL DEMENT F-3. Here we find the answer to
line breeding and its possibility towards this achieve­
ment is LITTLE MERRY LEGS. NELL DEMENT is
the dam of MERRY LEGS, and MERRY LEGS produc­
ed MERRY BOY and SKIP, the sire and dam of the
three-year-old stake winner, LITTLE MERRY LEGS.
This program of producing sires and dams is match­
ed by no other breeder. This is the answer in toto for
the all-time Master Breeder, A. M. Dement.
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