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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