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 6 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 Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse