TUSCALOOSA. ALABAMA SHOW FEATURES STRONG WALKING HORSE DIVISION
The Tuscaloosa JWA Charity Horse Show has always enjoyed the active support of Walking Horse people from both Alabama and surrounding states. However, show officials this year were not content to rest on their reputation and went all-out to make the Walking Horse division even stronger than in the past. This year, all of the Walking Horse classes were held on the first two nights of the three-night show. In addition, the two nights were Wednesday and Thursday, June 18 and 19. This enabled exhibitors to make another show on the weekend after completr ing showing at Tuscaloosa.
The show, in its eighth year, offered fourteen Walking Horse Classes with S3,450 in prize money. The judge was former celebration Judge Clyde Orton of Caruthersville, Missouri. Pete Yokley of Pulaski, Tennessee was the announcer, and Emmet Guy of Jackson, Tennessee served as the advisory consultant. There were seven professional classes, three amateur classes, three juvenile classes and one pleasure class. The Walking Horse Championship Class was won by Doug Wolaver riding EBONY’ S REWARD in a followup to their victory in the Aged Stallion & Gelding Class. Reserve in the big stake was Buddy Black riding SIR GALAHAD for owner Hardy Graves of Hazelhurst, Mississippi. The Amateur Championship was won by the great entry, CLOWN’ S SPUR, and Lloyd Wood. Lloyd and
his horse have won championships at many of the best shows and are contenders for the top honors in
the amateur class at this year’ s Celebration. Reserve in the class went to HANDSHAKER KAY with Rowe Sanderson in the saddle.
The Juvenile Class for riders 13 to 17 was won by MOONGLO’ S GAL with owner Sarah Coffee doing the
riding. The 12 and under Juvenile Class honors went to Robbie Spiller riding HUNTER’ S WILSON B. The Pony Class was won by the highly regarded entry of Priscilla Talley and EAGLE’ S ACE.
Show officials were well pleased with the show and are to be commended for the fine job all of their committees turned in. A special note of congratulations should go to Mrs. C. Richard Wilson, Jr., Chairman of the show.
Complete results of the Walking Horse Classes can be found in the Horse Show Results section of this
issue.
CHATTAHOOCHEE HORSE SHOW REPRESENTS FINE EFFORT BY GEORGIA WALKING HORSE ENTHUSIASTS
The annual Chattahoochee Charity Horse Show, held on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, is taking shape as one of the truly fine horse shows of the deep south. Sponsored by the Chattahoochee Plantation Club, a country club with a real " plantation” atmosphere, this show is tops in almost every respect. Their facilities are fine and they make an extra effort to make exhibitors feel at home.
The Georgia Walking Horse Exhibitors’ Association is making great strides in their state to assist shows with all activities regarding Tennessee Walking Horses. They were at Chattahoochee in mass this year and did a lot to boost the Walking Horse participation at this show. With the help of the association, the Chattahoochee Horse Show promises to be a real bang-up Walking Horse classic in the near future. This year’ s show was held June 18 through June 21.
Richard Mary, one of the recently announced Celebration Judges for 1969, was the " man with the pencil” at Chattahoochee. He " tied ' em the way he saw ' em” and remained true to his reputation as a judge
of Tennessee Walking Horses. There were over five hundred fifty horses entered in the Chattahoochee show and Walking Horses certainly held their own, even though there were only seventeen classes out of a total of one hundred twenty. Entries came from many Southeastern states. Complete results reported elsewhere in this issue.
RAIN-MARRED ROSSVILLE SHOW STILL A BIG SUCCESS
Bad weather and several major competing shows did not keep the Eighth Annual Rossville, Georgia Kiwanis Club Horse Show from being their most successful show ever. In fact, show officials were so pleased with the way things turned out that they are
strongly considering the possibility of expanding the show to two nights next year.
Billy Robinson, show chairman, had hoped for more entries but, everything considered, was well pleased with the turnout. A total of 319 entries performed at the show which was held at the Rossville Community Center Football Stadium and offered a total of $ 3,650 in prize money. The judge was Dude Crowder of Creedmoor, North Carolina. Dude certainly earned his pay braving the elements to tie horses who performed remarkably well under the almost-flood conditions. The crowd was severely curtailed by the weather but it was amazing how many did stay all night just to see the Championship Class.
The Championship Stake was won by ACE’ S SEN SATION and Wink Groover for the second year in a row. Groover and his horse put on a tremendous show despite the poor condition of the track and were easy winners. The reserve award went to THE UNDER WRITER with Jimmy Brown.
Mack Motes and GO BOY’ S DEMONSTRATOR won the Three-Year-Old Stallion & Gelding Class with Wink and COALTOWN tying second. Mack also won the Aged Stallion & Gelding Class with the great SHAD OW’ S ROYAL FLUSH while Jim Babb and SHOTGUN I finished a close second. Paul Smith rode DELIGHT’ S i DEBUTANTE to the first-place honors in the Threeand-Four-Year-Old Mare Class. Paul and this mare | have been consistent winners all season and were! deserving winners at Rossville. The Juvenile Class was won by the strong team of Pam Clippinger and MY SECRET SUN. Ricky Rollins
I and MERRY BLUE BOY were the second-place choices of Judge Crowder. The Ladies Amateur Class was won by Rita Rollins riding MR. OTTO for the Sugar-
I loaf Farms of Atlanta, Georgia.
TROUBLE IN THE HILLS and Dr. Truman Whitfield proved to be real trouble in the Men’ s Amateur Class as they received the first-place ribbon. This fine team seems to be getting better with age and their Rossville show certainly bears this out. Wink Groover rode SUN’ S DIXIE DARLING to the top spot in the Mare Class, adding another blue to his collection.
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