WISCONSIN WALKS
Jean S.( Mrs. Leo) Baum Box 250 Ixonia, Wisconsin 53036
Big news, all you Walking Horse people in the Mid- West( and South, and East, and North)! The big Milwaukee Spring Horse Show is adding two more Walking Horse classes, bringing it to a total of seven classes, AND we will have our own judge! This is really good news, as the people behind this show realize how the Walking Horse classes are growing( there were 15-20 horses in many of the classes last year) and the need for this. As of now, these are the classes: Amateur, Junior( 4 and Under), Ladies, Juvenile, Pleasure, Open and Stake. The dates are May 29- June 1. There will be more information as it comes along. Let ' s all get behind this big, well-run show and support it 100 %. It will be held indoors, as usual, in the Coliseum at State Fair Park, Milwaukee, with good stabling facilities.
It seems strange to talk of shows already, as this has been a bad winter so far. Lots of snow, very cold, and, worst of all for horses, ICY. But talk of spring helps these dreary days pass faster.
January 18 was the date of the last Wisconsin Walking Horse Association meeting. A good enthusiastic crowd was present to hear president Larry Pickhardt run an efficient business meeting. Films of the 1968 Celebration were expected, but were not yet finished, so Dr. Gavin showed his, and also of some local shows, and Emmet Guy narrating the 1967 Celebration was seen. The next WWHA meeting will be on March 8( the second Saturday every other month).
This ' N That: Joan and John Krumm are enjoying their new horse, MY SECRET DELIGHT, a four-yearoid gelding purchased from the Mel Norman Stables, Hastings, Michigan, Bob Gilmore, agent. He will be shown in Junior Classes this year. He took a fifth in the Junior Class at the Chicago International the first time shown by Joan. It looks like the Junior Classes will be big ones.
Elaine and Brian Rudy are new WWHA members, and have a nice pleasure walker that gives them many delightful hours. They live on the edge of Horseman ' s Park in Palmyra, so they have miles of beautiful trails " in their back yard,” so to speak. They may show him in some pleasure classes this year, too.
C. A. BOBO and SON STABLES
SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE PHONE: 615 / 684-1043
She Could Be Yours! DAT’ S DE BABE Black Age Mare
DR. O. B. NEELY DIES AT AGE 76
Former Director of Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ Association
Dr. O. B. Neely of Union City, Tennessee died last month at age 76. He was a retired Union City veterinarian, well-known in equestrian circles throughout the Mid-South.
Dr. Neely was born October 8, 1894 in Obion County, the son of the late James O. and Mrs. Lucy Miller Neely. He was married to the former Maggie Jane Adcock and they resided in Obion County most of their married life. He studied veterinary medicine at Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn and at Iowa State College at Ames. He later became associated with the State of Tennessee, but in 1935 he established the Neely Animal Clinic which he operated until 1954 when he sold the practice to Dr. Creswell.
Dr. Neely maintained an intense interest in horses for more than 30 years and was en route to a horse show near Shelbyville, Tennessee about three years ago when he was seriously injured in an accident. He had been in failing health since that time. He owned a number of fine animals during his lifetime and won many top honors in horse shows all over the Mid- South. He was a former director of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ Association and the Southern Horse Show Association. He was past president of the Tennessee Veterinary Medicine Association and a former state representative to the National Veterinary Medicine Association.
KEENE’ S GO BOY DIES
KEENE’ S GO BOY, an eleven-year-old black stallion well-known to Walking Horse breeders from coast to coast, died February 17, 1969 due to an intestinal ailment.
He was owned by Clayton & Hood of Arab, Alabama and was standing at Green & Hugh Stables in Shelbyville, Tennessee for the 1969 season.
In previous years KEENE’ S GO BOY has stood at stud at the S. W. Beech Stables in Belfast, Tennessee; at Joe Vann Clayton’ s Stables in Attalla, Alabama; and, during the 1968 season, in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the R. B. Womble Stables.
KEENE was a big black stallion with a perfect cross of MERRY BOY and MIDNIGHT SUN blood, and had been bred to some top mares in years past.
BILL TUNE
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