January/February 2013 - TWH Heritage Society

February 2013
Volume VII, Issue 1
Published by the TWH Heritage Society
T W H H e r i t a g e S o c i e t y. c o m
Heritage Highlights
Published By: TWH Heritage Society
Photo above was taken in December 2012 on a
cold Wisconsin winter day.
ANSWERS TO THE
ANNUAL HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS
TRIVIA QUIZ
December, 2012
From Franne Brandon, Petersburg,
Tennessee
For the past two years, Heritage Highlights has
featured a trivia quiz on famous horses from the
foundation era in December. This year’s quiz
was a little different since it narrowed the field to
only facts are about Foundation Sires and Dams,
the 115 stallions and mares selected in the early
years of the registry as significant individuals
contributing to the formation of the breed The
Heritage Society would like to congratulate our
two winners, Allanna Jackson of Lakeside,
Arizona, and Barb Paynton,. Here are the
answers.
1. This bay roan horse, marked by both hind
socks and an off fore coronet, was foaled at the
beginning of the Civil War, bred by a Mr.
Biggers of Petersburg, Tennessee. He lived to a
ripe old age, dying at twenty-eight years old. His
lines were very popular in his day, producing a
line a walking saddle horses that were much in
demand.
This was Tom Hal F-20. Biography of the
Tennessee Walking Horse offers a brief history
of this line of horses, predominant in Bedford
County, and noted for ease of saddle gaits, speed
in harness, good muscles, determination, and a
docile temperament.
(pages 30-34).
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2. This gray stallion, foaled on May 5, 1905, was
bred by U. Dailey of College Springs,
Tennessee. His bloodlines can still be found in
modern Tennessee Walking Horses, but he is
also noted as a sire that carried walking horse
blood to Alabama to provide an important
influence in the development of one of
Alabama’s native plantation breeds.
This gray stallion was McCurdy’s Doctor
F-79. His sire was an appendix registered
deceased grey stallion named Dick Taylor, who
was “approved by the Executive Committee
supported by affidavit as to performance.”
(Studbooks, vol. 2, p. 393) The breeding of his
sire and dam were not traced. The dam of
McCurdy’s Doctor was Nancy McLain, by
Slippery Jim, by Pat Malone F-27. (Biography p.
104)
3. This bay mare with four stockings and a strip
was a crossbred, the product of a black
Standardbred stallion and a registered American
Saddlebred sorrel mare. Ten of her foals were
registered with the Tennessee Walking Horse
Association of American, and all five of the colts
were breeding stallions with significant influence
on the formative years of the breed. Most
Heritage Horses trace to her through one or more
of her sons.
This bay mare was the legendary Merry
Legs F-4. Her two most famous sons were Merry
Boy and Last Chance, but Red Bud’s Rascal and
all his descendants trace to her through three of
her sons: Merry Boy, Major Allen, and Bud
Allen.
4. This “horse of a different color” was gelded at
age four, and his production record indicates
only two registered offspring. Yet the influence
of his son Barker’s Moonbeam was considered
so influential in the formative years of the
registry that this gelded stallion was accorded a
foundation number along with other stallions
who continued in the stud throughout their
lifetimes.
The “different color” of this horse was golden,
and living horses can be found in
both the champagne folds and the palomino
ranks to argue that he was one or the other.
The horse is Golden Sunshine F-44, bred by B.C.
Hunter of Lewisburg, Tennessee. Golden
Sunshine’s sire was Hunter’s Allen F-10, while
his golden dam, still alive when the TWHBAA
was formed in 1935, was given registration
number 350031. Golden Lady, a proven matron,
was the dam of several breeding stallions, among
them Bright Allen, Jimmy Allen, Yellow Jacket,
and Walking Allen.
5. This grey mare, like the stallion in #4, had
only two foals recorded in the new registry for
the plantation walking horses, one son and one
daughter. The son was a chestnut stallion that
was overlooked during much of his lifetime,
until his later years when his colts and fillies
matured and hit the show ring exhibiting a way
of going that was very different from that of their
competitors by other stallions. Based on her
ability to produce this important stallion, the
grey mare acquired Foundation Mare status.
Birdie Messick, bred by G.A. Messick of
Beech Grove, Tennessee, was a daughter of
Allan F-1, making her famous chestnut son,
Wilson’s Allen, a double grandson of Old Black
Allan. Her dam had no established pedigree,
being listed as Nellie, by Hal. B(Biography, p,
105) Was Nellie’s sire one of the many Hal
horses established in Bedford County? Given
that Beech Grove is just over the county line, it
is possible that this mare did blend the Allen
blood with the Hal blood so popular south of
where she was bred.
6. This bay stallion was Kentucky bred and a
registered American Saddlebred. Blending
the Bourbon Prince line to Harrison Chief on the
top with Denmark lines through his dam, this
handsome individual was an excellent 5-gaited
show horse, yet he also competed and won at
times over the top walking horses of his era in
plantation classes. Ninety-six of his offspring
were registered with TWHBAA, and until his
death in the late nineties, a great-great-great
grandson, Thunder’s War Eagle, carried on his
male line in Canada.
Roe’s Chief brought an impressive lineup of established American Saddle Horse
bloodlines into the infant Tennessee Walking
Horse breed. Although the gene could not have
come from him, since he was a bay, the one
traceable line of silver dapple in the TWH breed
comes through his descendants.
7. This sorrell mare has the distinction of being
the last female given a foundation number.
Marked by a pair of hind stockings, a bald face,
and a flax mane and tail, she was most likely a
minimal sabino. Her grandsire, Earnhart’s
Brooks, was a highly expressed sabino with a
bold belly spot. Her dam was sired by a grandson
of Tom Hal F-20.
This mare was Bessie Farrar F-115. She
produced only three registered foals, and her
status came from the merits of her son Victor
Allen, by Wilson’s Allen, a prominent stallion in
his time.
2012 Heritage Society Performance Award
Winner Announced!!
The Heritage Society firmly believes that the
term “Performance Horse” should be reserved
for animals that typify the original purpose of the
breed, as using horses that can cover ground
smoothly, work cattle, climb hills and mountains
safely, and be enjoyable mounts.
The winner of the 2012 Performance Award is
Austin Turley and NFF Echo’s Blue Moon, of
Carbonado Farm, Laurel Montana. Below is
Austin’s entry:
NFF Echo’s Blue Moon, a Heritage stallion by
Echo’s Star Gray Wilson and Red Bud’s Angel
is an integral part of Carbonado Farm and
Kennels. Moon is not only our breeding stallion,
he is also our main dog training horse, and field
trial competition horse. When Moon is not busy
filling one of these roles, he is often loaned out
to novice riders wanting to ride a walking horse,
judges in need of a horse at a field trial
competition, and the odd once a year or so he is
hitched up to the wagon. Moon is used training
dogs around 35 days a year, and another 25 days
a year he is at a field trial competition. It is not
uncommon for Moon to be used every day, a
couple of weeks in a row. Most days we use him
3-4 hrs training dogs, but it is not unusual for
him to go all day at a field trial either running a
dog, scouting a dog, hauling a judge, or riding
along in the gallery. Moon puts on in excess of
1100 miles per year running dogs.
Being a field trial horse Moon must readily
accept all the distractions that come along with
running dogs. He must be willing to ride up
front when running a dog, helping show the dog
to its best while not distracting from the dog’s
performance. When scouting another
competitor’s dog, he must be capable of
cantering or galloping whenever asked so as to
help keep the dog to the front, or find a wayward
canine. Upon returning to the gallery of
contestants and spectators, he must be willing to
walk quietly with the gallery. This is often times
the most difficult thing for a field trial horse to
do, that is, be willing to be quiet in the gallery
after scouting a dog. At the end of the day, a
field trial horse is usually picketed out near all
the other horses at the trial.
Moon at field trials
Using Moon to “road” dogs, training for field
trials
Austin & Moon having a relaxing ride
We have been blessed with four foal crops out of
Moon now and have a fifth on the way. This
past year I started two geldings out of Moon as
field trial horses. Carbonado’s Arcata Moon is
now in Minnesota with an avid field trialer and
his owner reports in regularly as to how pleased
he is with “Art” as a field trial horse.
Carbonado’s Ivory Moon is in Alberta Canada
with another field trialer, Terry Walsh. Terry is
pleased enough with “Dave” that he recently
purchased a younger Moon gelding, Carbonado’s
Merri Moon. A two year old gelding,
Carbonado’s Merriwither is in Wyoming being
broke as a field trial horse. This past spring we
sold a one week old colt to a field trialer from
Utah after the gentleman saw Moon, one of his
geldings, and some of the Heritage mares at a
field trial.
Three of Moons colts have purchased as
prospective stud horses: Kinder’s Society Bullet
out of Ostella Diamond Anne, owned by Mike
Kinder of Ohio; Carbonado’s Chief Joseph out
of Rosella Chance, owned by Lesa Luchak,
Alberta, Canada; and Carbonado’s Bay at The
Moon out of Society’s Myriah Lee, recently
purchased by Sandra Bullins of Virginia.
Nard Bailey using Moon at a field trial in
2012
The two fillies we have raised by Moon went to
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Carbonado’s Nancy
Bee to Northern Foundation Farms to be used as
a broodmare, and Carbonado’s Fancy Chance to
Laura Humphrey to be used as an endurance
horse.
Congratulations on a job well done!!
What Color Foal? : A Color Genetics
Synopsis
Black, red, bay. Those are the three basic coat
colors of all horses.The other colors are the
results of patterns or modifiers.
By Franne Brandon, Petersburg, Tennessee
That good red mare of yours is six years old
now. She's a great one on the trails, and you plan
to raise a replacement out of her some day. But...
you have heard that a mare needs to have her
first foal before she is in her mid-teens,
prompting you to consider breeding her this year.
You know you need a stallion with good
bones, plenty of sense, strong conformation, and
natural walking gaits. You're curious, though,
about what color foal this mare might produce
for you, since she is a basic red once called
sorrell by most people in the walking horse
world.
If the mate chosen for your mare has a red
basecoat, whether bright like hers or darker, the
foal will be red. The red gene is the recessive one
in horse coat colors, and two reds always
produce red foals. Should the stallion
be flaxen, the foal could be flaxen as well, but
that is not a guarantee, since her mane and tail
are red, like the rest of her.
Should the stallion chosen be a black, the black
gene is dominant to the red gene. If the stallion
has only one copy of the black gene and throws
red, the foal will then be red. If the stallion
throws black, it is dominant to red, and the
foal MAY be black. Some stallions are
homozygous for black, and can only provide the
black E-gene to their offspring. Thus, all their
foals will be black or bay basecoat no matter
what color the mare.
Bay? That's right. A bay horse results when a
genetically black foal receives one or two copies
of the A-gene, the agouti gene, from one or both
parents. Agouti limits the black to the mane, tail,
lower legs, and ear tips.The rest is red. If your
mare is crossed with a true black stallion but has
agouti and passes it on to the foal, and the
stallion gives the E-gene, the result will be a bay
baby.
Grey is a common modifier in most breeds of
horses, including Tennessee Walkers. The grey
gene is evident in the newborn foal thru grey
hairs on the eyelids and usually, though not
always, a much darker foal coat color. Grey can
impact red, bay, and black base coats, and
usually causes dappling as the horse grows
older,with the eventual result being a coat color
that turns totally silvery-white. Since grey is a
dominant gene, one parent must have it to pass
along to the foal. Your red mare could have a
grey foal with a black base, if the stallion
provides the black gene and the grey gene and
she does not pass along an agouti.
Roan is a modifier sometimes confused with
grey. True roans are foaled roan, often arrive a
darker color like the grey foals, but will not have
roan or grey hairs on the eyelids. Roan hair is not
found on the face nor lower legs, and generally
the mane and tail are dark, even with red
basecoats. Roans do not grow lighter with age.
For your red mare to have a roan foal, the
stallion must contribute the gene, since it's a
dominant one and must be passed on by one of
the parents.
Totally unlike grey and roan, the dilution genes
lighten the hair shaft, instead of blending an
additional color into it. The cream gene
is the most common of the dilution genes in the
walking horse breed. Its presence creates
palomino on a red basecoat and buckskin
on a bay coat. It usually has little or no visual
impact on a black coat, but it will be part of the
horse's genetic package, to be passed
along to some offspring. To raise a palomino
from your red mare, you will need cream from
the stallion, but for a guarantee, you need a
red stallion with two copies of the cream gene - a
cremello. A bay stallion with two cream genes, a
perlino, can't guarantee a palomino foal.
Getting a buckskin is trickier because it requires
the black gene, the agouti gene, and the cream
gene. Black stallions with cream called smokey
blacks, can't sire buckskins unless the mare
contributes the agouti gene.
The champagne gene is a dilution gene that
changes all three base colors as it dilutes the skin
to mottled pink and the eyes to amber. A
homozygous version of champagne will not have
the pink skin and sky blue eyes of the
homozygous cream horse. The champagne
gene is not as prevalent in the walking horse
breed as the cream gene. While some have been
around since the registry began, some of the
pioneer palomino breeders rejected horses with
mottled pink skin and light brown eyes from
their breeding programs. A champagne horse that
can trace its color trail to the foundation era is
very rare in 2013.
The silver dapple gene was unknown in the
walking horse breed until recently. Most
registered silver dapples cannot trace their color
lines back to the origins of the registry. The one
line that can do so goes back to a chestnut
stallion, Thunder's War Eagle, that stood in
Canada for many years. Chestnut coats are not
impacted by the dominant silver dapple gene, so
like the smokey blacks, a chestnut with silver
dapple carries the gene without its being obvious
in its appearance. A chestnut with silver dapple
can pass it on to chestnut offspring with no one
realizing the gene's presence. It appears the gene
is "skipping generations", but today's DNA tests
would prove otherwise.
So you want some chrome on the red mare's
foal? You are in luck, because the sabino gene,
present in the TWH breed since before
the registry's formation, still florishes within the
breed's gene pool. Sabinos in years past were
called "roans", because there are white hairs
sprinkled throughout the sabino coat. Sabinos
also have stockings, blazes or bald faces, chin
spots, and sometimes spots on the body. Sabino1
is a dominant gene, but its expression can be
very minimal, often fooling owners into thinking
their horses do not carry the gene. A double dose
of the sabino1 gene results in a horse with a
white overlay on a basic coat color. Since your
red mare is a basic red with a star, she would be
most likely to have a foal with some stockings
and a face marking if bred to a sabino carrier. If
you select a stallion that is sabino on bay or
black, it is possible to get a foal with those base
colors and sabino markings. Sabinos are "the
original spotted walking horses", recorded in
great abundance in the first Studbook of the
breed. It was until the nineties the most common
spotting pattern in the breed.
The other pattern quite common in the breed is
tobiano. This is a dominant gene, a spotting
pattern like sabino, that was not seen much
until the eighties,before bloodtyping, when
people began standing TWHBEA tobiano
stallions. Very few tobianos can trace the pattern
back to the beginnings of the registry. If you
want to raise a tobiano foal, however, you will
need a stallion with that pattern, and the chances
of getting one are 50/50 unless the stallion is
homozygous for tobiano. Not even a
homozygous stallion's owner can guarantee the
amount of white the stallion will pass on.
There are a lot of color choices to consider when
selecting a stallion for your mare, then.
Remember, since she is a red mare, all other
color options for the foal you plan to raise must
come from the stallion. The red gene is always
homozygous. Should you want to be sure of a
foal of a particular color, modifier, or pattern,
then the stallion must be homozygous for that
color, modifier, or pattern as well. Shop around.
The stallion should be a good match for your
mare in gait, conformation, and disposition, not
just another handsome guy with a lot of colorful
flash but no substance.
2014 CALENDAR IDEAS
Our 2013 calendars seem to be a success so now
we’re turning to our readers for suggestions for a
theme for 2014. Please send in your ideas of
what you’d like to see in the 2014 Heritage
calendar.
From Nicole Jamieson-Jackson, Cabri,
Saskatchewan
Some photos of “Crafty” and Danni
IDEAS FROM OUR READERS!!
We know horse people can be rather inventive
and resourceful when it comes to making items
that work for their horse-keeping operation. We
invite readers to send in their ideas/inventions
along with photos and an explanation of what the
item is and how it functions. Share with other
horse folks! We’re hoping to get enough
suggestions and useful horse-keeping ideas from
you, the readers, to make this a new monthly
addition to the newsletter.
Danni on board NFF Society’s Aristocrat
(Scarlet Star Wilson x Society’s Duke Allen)
“Crafty” is a young stallion
*Homemade Mane & Tail Detangler*
Calgon Bath Oil Beads (dry)
Water
Mix the Calgon with water - one part Calgon to
three parts water. Store in a spray bottle. It will
help recondition your horse's mane and tail. It
also works well on knots. Apply liberally and
work the knot out with a comb or stiff brush.
COMING IN APRIL!!!
This month’s Highlights is our stallion issue. For
April, we would love readers to send us some
photos of your favorite Heritage mare, tell us a
story about why this is your favorite mare. We
will give you a full page in Highlights for your
story and photos.
Nice looking couple of youngsters
Galloping Up Etna
Chapter Eight
By Nancy Bergman, Whitehall, Wisconsin
As I pulled on my riding boots for the last day of
my Sicilian horse trek I felt relief—in spite of
hitting my head and hurting my back, I seemed
to have completed a very long ride. Still it
bothered me that I had issues. I have been on
many horse trips and never had any physical
problems before. Maybe I was getting too old—
62 is certainly no spring chicken. Oh wellonward and upward to Mt Etna—the grand,
imposing mountain that we had been chasing for
days. We were told to dress in bright colors just
in case we got into ‘ trouble’ on the
mountain.(Fog, snow, lava flows??) Our guide
for the volcano climb was to be Attila, the
German gent we had previously met. Attila
spoke no English and limited Sicilian Italian so it
would fall to Fraulien Miriam to do the
translation.
Attila was mounted on a leggy French chestnut
with what appeared to be flowing, soft gaits.
The back story on this horse was that it had been
sent to Attila for re-training. It was a ‘problem’
horse that liked to rear and Attila specialized in
horses with ‘idiosyncrasies ’. Apparently the
French horse had a ‘come to Attila’ moment and
was more than willing to carry our guide up the
sides of Mt Etna. Roswita, Attila’s wife, told us
her spouse liked to move out and we should at
least try to keep him in sight. It was boots and
saddles so we all mounted up and followed Attila
through winding lanes walled with big black lava
stones. We passed small plots planted with olive
and nut trees, artichokes, grapes and eggplants
all thriving in the rich, loamy volcanic soils on
Etna’s slopes. A group of workers in blaze
orange vests were clearing weeds along the
roadside. Alex said they were part of a
government program that provided temporary
jobs. In Sicily, if you work for 50 days per year,
you are entitled to welfare payments for the
remainder of the year—a practice Alex frowned
upon.
Saddling up on the last day at the foot of Mt.
Etna
Atilla
The view from our hotel window looking out
at the slopes of Mt. Etna
Nancy on board Romano
A few rapidly ridden miles later, Attila halted
and began a lengthy discourse in German. After
what seemed like a half hour, he turned to poor
Miriam who was supposed to translate the entire
lecture back to us in English. She made an
admirable try at condensing Attila’s lecture in
geology and vulcanology --not an easy task as
Attila had delivered a full load of information on
aspects of lava and eruption. Off we sped again
as the road climbed ever upward. We left the
little farm plots behind and fizzed up the slopes
of the volcano. Roswita was correct about the
pace—Attila and his French horse floated on
ahead of us while our mounts tried to keep up.
Every few miles we would stop and have another
session of Etna facts and figures from Attila,
pared down as much as possible by Miriam.
Etna is 11,000 feet and its upper slopes are so
charred and bleak they have been used by NASA
to simulate Mars landings. One of its worst
eruptions was in 1669 when lava took out several
towns and ran into the harbor in Catania. 2002
was the most recent destructive eruption ,
burying a hotel in the lava flow. For our
ascension of the iconic mountain, we had blue
skies and sun and no splutters of fire and
sulphur.
10 minutes and being German, he was precisely
correct. We were now in an area of tall pine
trees. At an alpine restaurant we had a last lunch
together. It was sad—after bonding on the long
miles over the Sicilian countryside we would be
going our different ways. But first Attila was
going to attempt to lead us up to the main crater
of Etna. We followed him through the forest
floor of soft pine needles but unfortunately, as
we climbed, the snow became too deep and
slippery for the horses to tackle. We came back
out on a road where Attila bade us goodbye. He
and his French horse were going to keep looking
for routes up to the crater. The rest of us turned
and followed Alex back towards the restaurant as
Attila cantered off into the lava fields. At one
point we found ourselves behind a chain link
fence but Alex was able to liberate our group
with the use of wire cutters.
Back at the restaurant the horses were unsaddled
and loaded into a rented horse van for the
journey back towards the coast. I parted on good
terms with Romano. He had been steady and
dependable but his rough gaits had been hard to
handle. I just wanted to climb on my glide ride
Walking Horse again. Yolanda had really
enjoyed her pretty white Lolita. We joked about
riding Lolita back to England after swimming
the straits of Messina. Tomorrow Yolanda
would be back in England and I would be one
step closer to home.
Attila and his French horse riding off into the
lava fields
Soon the trees and grasses gave way to black
lava fields. The altitude was getting higher, the
air thinner and Romano was starting to puff.
Our horses were working very hard to keep
Attila in sight At a lava-cave we dismounted
and gave the horses a rest while we explored the
fissure. Then it was back in the saddle and on to
our lunch stop. Attila said we would reach it in
Loading Romano on the horse van
Society Man #400554,
A Son of the Great Wilson’s Allen
By Billy Taylor, Winchester, Tennessee
Society Man
Society Man was foaled on March 19, 1940. His
breeder and owner was C. Stimpson, Statesville,
North Carolina. His sire, Wilson’s Allen
#350075, was considered to be one of the best
Tennessee Walking Horses of all time. Society
Man’s dam was Virginia Joyce #39065, whose
sire was Red Eagle F-61 and dam was Nillie C.
In 1943 Steve Hill had Society Man in training at
his barn in Beechgrove, Tennessee. Society Man
was shown several times as a three year old. He
won the three year old stallion class at
Murfreesboro, Tennessee; the Grand
Championship class at Atlanta, Georgia; the
three year old class at Shelby, Mississippi, and
the Grand Championship class at Lexington,
Kentucky. Steve Hill took him to the Celebration
in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1943
where he won the Three Year Old Stallion class;
he also won fifth place in the Grand
Championship class that year.
Steve Hill purchased Society Man from C.
Stimpson on January 1, 1945, when he was a
five year old. I’m not sure when Mr. Hill retired
society Man from the show ring. There is a write
up in the Tennessee Walking Horse magazine
dated April, 1948. It states that Society Man is
the head stud at Steve Hill’s farm. It also states
that Society Man was a great show horse a
couple or so years before he was retired. It
appears, based on this article, that Society Man
was retired at approximately six years of age.
Society Man was a good show horse; it took a
good horse to win the Three Year Old
Championship in 1943 because there was a lot of
strong competition. Fifth place in the Grand
Championship class was quite a feat for a three
year old! Jack Kinkaid told me that as a young
man he saw Society Man and Midnight Sun
under saddle. He said, in his opinion, Society
Man was the better horse because he was more
true in his running walk and demonstrated a lot
more head nod than his half-brother, Midnight
Sun.
Steve Hill sold Society Man to Alton Pierce Jr,
Smyrna, Georgia on May 1, 1952. Alton Pierce
Jr. sold him to Charles Gresham, Atlanta,
Georgia, on February 2, 1953. Charles Gresham
sold him to Alton Pierce Sr., Alwalt Community,
Franklin County, Tennessee, March 3, 1954.
We bred both of our mares, LuLu Taylor
#570334 and her daughter Pinky Lu #621512, in
1958. LuLu had a chestnut sabino filly foaled in
1959; dad sold her for $600 which was a good
price back then. Pinky Lu didn’t get in foal to
Society Man in 1958; she would have been bred
back to him in 1959, but Alton Pierce Sr. sold
him on February 25, 1959, to J.H. Trisdale,
Redding, California. Pinky Lu was bred to a son
of Society Man, Paige’s Black Boy, that Mr.
Pierce owned. She produced two colts by him.
One of them, Paige’s Echo #659379, remained a
stallion until his death in July, 1996. Several of
the Heritage stallions have bloodlines back to
Society Man through Paige’s Echo.
Billy & Danny Taylor with Pinky Lu and
LuLu Taylor
Society Man sired 317 foals during his lifetime,
but only 8 foals after J. H. Trisdale purchased
him and moved him to California.
Of all the sons that Society Man produced,
Paige’s Black Boy is the only one to sire a son,
Paige’s Echo, that had sons who are in
production today as breeding stallions. To
appreciate how rare this bloodline is when it
comes to an unbroken top line of males to carry
on the Society Man name, there are only four
stallions in production today who were sons of
Paige’s Echo – Society’s Duke Allen #950701,
owned by Diane Sczepanski, Whitehall,
Wisconsin; Society’s Lee Allen #942363, owned
by Carl Parks, Belvidere, Tennessee; Echo’s
Roan Delight #961271, owned by Sonny Gulley,
Franklin County, Tennessee; and Society’s Dan
Allen #941414, owned by Billy Taylor,
Winchester, Tennessee.
Paige’s Echo – around age 25
Memorial Day Ride at East Fork Stables,
Jamestown, Tennessee
From Norman Hunley, Greeneville, Tennessee
“ I have Campsite D-28, Ellen and Steve Lay
have D-26, and Leon Oliver has D-27. I also
have barn stalls #19 and #20 in D-Barn. I talked
today with Jennifer Christianson, East Fork
Stables, who advised she would try to get all of
our riders in D-Section if desired. She advised
that there would be Entertainment on Saturday
night, but no planned meals. She said that if
enough interest was generated, one meal
(Saturday night) could be prepared at $15.00 per
head. She noted that several eating
establishments were in the area, to include a
good BBQ place. The mailing address is: East
Fork Stables, 3598 S. York Hwy., Jamestown,
Tennessee 38556. Jennifer can be reached at
931-879-1176; 931-879-1178; 1-800-978-7245;
931-879-1179 (fax). East Fork Stables is closed
until March, but the office is open to take
reservations. If you get the recording, leave a
number and Jennifer will return your call. This
should be a good ride. Hope everyone can make
it.” Regards, Norman
From Chelsea Bradbury
Kelowna, British Columbia
“Figured I'd send you the most recent picture of
Rose (we renamed her as we already had an
Echo and a Lady at the farm I moved her to). I
bought her last summer from a breeder in Rock
Creek. Yeah this is Echo's Royal Lady and she is
amazing, she is my 3rd walker to own, though; I
sold my first. I thought my gelding was fast and
smooth but this mare has blown him out of the
water. She's going on 6 and had 3 babies so I'm
working on toning her out currently and
hopefully a few years down the road I'll get
another baby out of her.”
From Laura Carlson-Humphrey
Detroit, Michigan
“She cracks me up how she likes to look at
herself. Austin named her correctly.”
Carbonado’s Fancy Chance admiring herself
in the mirror
Chelsea on Echo’s Royal Lady riding up in
Joe Riche in the mountains. We are on top of
a gravel pit about 30 minutes down the road
from my house. It’s pretty much the only trail
we can ride in winter since we can’t cross
creeks and go outback.
From Roberta Brebner, Tsuniah Walkers,
Williams Lake, British Columbia
Had to send some photos of some of my 2012
foals.
Bobbie withTsuniah Red Willson’s Echo
#21202311
(Society’s Duke Allen x Red Rock
Evangelista)
This is Tsuniah Sage Kings Echo
(NFF Society King’s Opus x Sage King’s
Moon Beam)
Another photo of the above colt
The two youngsters playing
Tsuniah Echo’s Rascal #21103783
(Society’s Duke Allen x Bullet’s Elusive
Angel)
Presenting the stallion line up!! These
stallions are owned by Heritage Founders and
breeders and are available for public stud
after his dad and grandfather. He decided to keep
the colt from the Old Bud mare, named Dan
Allen, as a future stallion prospect.
Confederate Hills Farm
SOCIETY’S DAN ALLEN #941414
Billy Taylor
Winchester, Tennessee
The ten plus years since that decision have
proved it was a wise one. Dan Allen foals
possess their sire’s laid back attitude,
intelligence, and natural walking ability. They
have good conformation, strong bone, and often
an appealing sabino pattern. A daughter of Dan
Allen, Echo’s Bon Bon, was recently the first
Walking Horse imported into Italy.
Society’s Dan Allen is one of the few stallions in
the nation who will carry his foals back to
Wilson’s Allen on the top line of the pedigree
without using Midnight Sun.
Society’s Dan Allen
(Paige’s Echo x Red Bud’s Lady Bug)
Franklin County, Tennessee, on the edge of the
Cumberland Plateau, was home to a number of
flatshod show champions in the mid-twentieth
century. One of these was the dark chestnut
Celebration Junior Champion Society Man, who
retired from the show ring to stand at stud in
Franklin County.
One of the local breeders who brought mares to
the court of Society Man was Dan Taylor, who
had purchased two sabino mares in the late
fifties. Decades later, Billy Taylor, Dan’s older
son, returned to his roots in agricultural Franklin
County and decided to raise good using,
sensible, running walk gaited horses. He started
with a mare his dad had kept, bred her to Red
Bud’s Rascal, then took her and later her
daughters to the courts of old bloodline stallions
which had been with their owners for several
equine generations. In the early nineties, Billy
discovered through a friend that a stallion bred
by his father was still intact and capable of
serving mares. That stallion was named Paige’s
Echo. In 1993, Billy took two mares, the Old
Bud mare and her daughter by Mark’s
Crackerjack, to be bred to Echo. Both mares
foaled lit up sabino colts. Billy named the pair
Society’s Dan Allen and Society’s Lee Allen,
Dan’s classic pose at the gate as he greets
visitors
A rare photo of Billy riding Dan Allen in 1999
Billy has a page on the Heritage Society
website: www.twhheritagesociety.com
Elk River Farm
SUN’S SMOKEY MIDNIGHT #935357
Danny Taylor
Winchester, Tennessee
sire of fine riding and flatshod show stock, but a
sire of stallions as well. His pedigree offers the
popular “royal cross” of a Midnight Sun stallion
with a Merry Boy bred mare, while also
featuring the older Wilson’s Allen lines
developed by the Faulkner Brothers on the
bottom of his dam’s pedigree.
Sun's Smokey Midnight will celebrate his 20th
birthday in 2013. He stands as one of the few
grandsons of Midnight Sun available at public
stud that does NOT trace back to Sun through
Pride of Midnight H.F.
Sun’s Smokey Midnight
(Sun’s Midnight Mark x Lucy Sue’s Angel)
The Faulkner Brothers of Lincoln County in
southern Middle Tennessee were among the
early breeders to register their stock with the
TWHBAA. Son and nephew Jab Faulkner
helped with the horses as a youngster and
continued the family tradition of excellent using
Walking Horses and quality jack stock when he
grew up. After many years, however, he and his
wife decided to retire from horse breeding in the
early nineties. One of the area breeders eager to
purchase Jab’s proven family bloodlines was
Danny Taylor.
This horse has a good mind. He had not been
ridden in years and Billy saddled him and
rode him for visitors to the farm
Danny took one of the Jab Faulkner mares
named Lucy Sue’s Angel to the court of the old
Midnight Sun stallion, Sun’s Midnight Mark.
Mark stood in Readyville, Tennessee, at the farm
of his breeder and lifetime owner, Horton Elrod.
The foal that arrived in the spring of 1993
inherited the black coat of his sire but his dam’s
sabino markings, passed down over the
generations from the first of the Faulkner mares.
He was a large colt, quiet and friendly.
Sun’s Smokey Midnight grew up in the hills of
Franklin County. He was started under saddle,
where he displayed very correct walking gaits
without the irritating paciness bred into many of
the more modern show lines. Danny made the
decision to retain him as the herd sire for Elk
River Farm. Time has proven this to be a wise
decision, as Smokey has proven to be not only a
Danny with one of Smokey’s daughters
Danny has a page on the Heritage Society
website: www.twhheritagesociety.com
Northern Foundations Farm
NFF WILSON’S SOCIETY KING #20406770
Diane Sczepanski
Whitehall, Wisconsin
many good foals from this young stallion. I can’t
say enough about this colt; he has been a real
blessing!
We reserve the right to reject any mares with
temperament issues.
NFF Wilson’s Society King
(Echo’s Star Gray Wilson x Williams
Annabelle)
This fine sorrel sabino stallion is available at
Northern Foundations Farm. His pedigree
includes Society Man, 1943 Three Year Old
Stallion World Grand Champion, Sir Maugray
(from the breeding program of Jimmie Gray,
Belvidere, TN),and the rare Red Eagle F-61 and
Buford F-11 , two non-Allen bloodlines
providing hybrid vigor to his foals.
King in 2007 at the Southern Minnesota
Classic show
King did well showing in 2007 and was the
MWHA Association Three Year Old Futurity
Champion for 2007!!! He also won the Reserve
Championship at the MWHA Association
Yearling and Two Year Old Futurity classes in
2005 and 2006.
King is a dream horse! He has good looks and
correct gait that he has passed on to his foals.
King has no recent WGC's in his pedigree and no
Pride of Midnight. Stud fee will be $450 for
2013 to approved mares. We have frozen semen
available and can ship cooled fresh semen with a
couple days notice. He has been tested and is
EVA negative and vaccinated.
I like the blending of the Echo’s Star Star Gray
Wilson bloodlines with the Williams King lines
that produced this colt. This was a great
combination of bloodlines and the dispositions of
these lines carried down through to the two foals
King produced in 2007. I am looking forward to
King with Cecil
Website:
www.northernfoundationsfarm.com
Northern Foundations Farm
SOCIETY’S DUKE ALLEN #950701
Diane Sczepanski
Whitehall, Wisconsin
Duke’s foals have a lot of size, big bones, and
they inherit his intelligence, gait, and gentle
disposition. Duke stands 15.2 hands measured.
We have frozen semen available and can ship
cooled semen with a couple days notice. Duke is
EVA negative and vaccinated. Duke’s stud fee
for 2013 is $450 to approved mares.
I’m looking forward to the Duke foals in 2013.
He has crossed well with my Star Gray daughters
and produced some nice foals. One of his colts,
NFF Society’s Aristocrat, has made his home in
Saskatchewan and will be his buyer’s stallion.
We reserve the right to reject any mares with
temperament issues.
Society’s Duke Allen
(Paige’s Echo x Red Bud’s Lady Bug)
Duke was foaled at Confederate Hills Farm, Billy
Taylor's Winchester, Tennessee home, and is a full
brother to Billy’s Society’s Dan Allen. He left
Tennessee as a youngster and from then on he resided
at Gary Martin's Make A Horse Farm in Dighton,
Massachusetts. I first ran across Duke's photo in
an old issue of the Breeder's Guide and thought he
looked like a nice horse; plus I liked his bloodlines.
Bev Rinke takes Duke for a spin in the
summer of 2010
Ever since Star Gray lost his breeding ability, I had
asked Gary if he would consider selling Duke, and
the reply was always the same - he wasn't interested
in selling. I contacted Gary in the winter of 20082009 once again to ask if he would consider selling
or leasing Duke. I was surprised to get a letter back
from him saying he would sell Duke. Duke arrived at
my farm toward the end of March, 2009. He had
some major adjustments to make in Wisconsin, but
eventually he settled in here.
I can’t tell you enough about how much I love
this horse. He is a gentleman to work with when
breeding and he loves attention, loves to have his
ears scratched.
This is the photo of Duke that Gary Martin
had used in his Breeder’s Guide ad. This
horse caught my eye immediately.
Website: www.northernfoundationsfarm.com
Northern Foundations Farm
REMEMBRANCE’S BONFIRE #904345
Diane Sczepanski
Whitehall, Wisconsin
Barb’s husband riding Bonfire past the mares
Remembrance’s Bonfire
(Sun’s Remembrance x Large’s Allen)
Thanks goes out to Barb & "Chris" Christensen
of Blackfoot, Idaho, for the chance to acquire
Bonfire to stand at stud in Wisconsin.
Barb wrote: "I haven’t had one colt out of him
that didn’t have the natural 4 beat gait all on their
own. No teaching required and his famous
temperament. You will love him." Barb is right,
I do love this horse. He has the temperament that
I like, and we’re anxiously looking forward to
his first NFF foals this spring.
Bonfire with his friend sharing a scratch
We had a number of visitors to the farm this past
summer to meet “Bonnie”, and no one was
disappointed. He is a gentle horse, respectful of
people, and an easy horse to breed.
Bonfire is one of the last remaining sons of Sun's
Remembrance still in production. The plan for
spring 2013 is to take Bonfire to Hoffmann
Stables in Preston, Minnesota, for semen
collecting and freezing.. He will then be
available for AI breedings. Bonfire's stud fee will
be $450 for 2013 to Approved Mares (private
treaty) . Contact me for a breeding contract and
also a contract for shipped semen from
Hoffmann Stables. Bonfire will be available for
live cover in Wisconsin. Mares must have a
current Coggins, must have shoes removed, be
up to date on vaccinations. We reserve the right
to reject any mares with temperament issues.
Bonfire visiting with Eric
Website:
www.northernfoundationsfarm.com
Heritage Stallions Owned By Other Heritage
Breeders
Bates Gaited Horses
CRUISE WITH THE LIMO #20502089
Nya & Rocky Bates
Melba, Idaho
Cruise With The Limo
(The Allen Blackgold x Star’s Lady
Chocolate)
Then I purchased him to stand him to the public.
(Just a fun fact, I was showing King Pin in Wyo.
when Blackgold was three years old and saw Black
for the first time and fell in love with him) I
promoted the Walking horse breed in Montana with
him. I showed him in numerous open shows as well
as the few gaited shows in Montana. His fantastic
disposition won many people over. I rode him on
trails and in numerous horse activities, and people
were always impressed with his demeanor. He
always tickled me because we would be standing
around half a sleep until it was time to go into the
show ring. He would puff up and show off. He
knew he was the center of attention and he loved
it. He was my main mount for many years, as well as
a breeding stallion. We always had a few mares that
we bred with him and stood him to outside mares.
We sold his foals to numerous states. Everyone was
always very pleased with the disposition of the foals.
They were easy to start.
Star's Lady Chocolate- Limo's Mom (known as
Cricket) 17 hand chestnut mare. Cricket was
primarily used as a trail horse for my husband. She
would go through anything and up any hillside. We
used her as a broodmare and also a lesson horse. For
her large size, she is extremely gentle and willing. I
would have a summer camp for the neighborhood
children. All my broodmares would be ridden around
by the kids just having a ball.
Limo is 17.2 hh and very sweet for a stallion (of any
size). We bought Limo as a long weanling to breed to
our TWH Heritage stallion (Go Boy's Windwalker)
daughters Tempest Wind, Wind Sonnet, and Wind's
Heartbreak Hanna. He is very gentle and sensitive,
which are qualities that we look for in a breeding
stallion, along with gait and disposition. As Go Boy's
Windwalker was an easy stallion to ride, breed and
promote this breed, his daughters possess the same
qualities, and we hope to cross them to produce
quality foals in the years to come.
With the blight upon the TWH Industry in these days,
we are proud to have Heritage horses to continue in
the same vein that we believe that the original
founders of our wonderful breed started.
The Allen Blackgold – Limo’s sire
Website: www.batesgaitedhorses.com
Carbonado Farm
NFF ECHO’S BLUE MOON #20403646
Austin & Michelle Turley
Laurel Montana
NFF Echo’s Blue Moon
(Echo’s Star Gray Wilson x Red Bud’s Angel)
NFF Echo’s Blue Moon is a fifteen hand black
sabino stallion sired by Echo’s Star Gray Wilson
out of the mare Red Bud’s Angel. Star Gray
contributed his sire’s heritage bloodline of
Paige’s Echo, which is the only direct sire line
back to Society Man, a Wilson’s Allen son as
well as his mother’s rare lines tracing back to Sir
Maugray, a Wilson’s Allen son from the Auburn
Gray breeding program. Moon’s mother, Red
Bud’s Angel was a daughter of the noted
heritage stallion Red Bud’s Rascal out of the Jab
Faulkner bred mare Lucy Sue’s Angel. Lucy
Sue’s Angel traces back to the mare Black
Angel, the 1943 World Grand Champion.
Moon's pedigree also has old bloodline stock
such as Hunter's Allen, Merry Boy, and Top
Wilson.
Moon is a using horse. He is regularly used for
whatever task we come up with for him, whether
that be training our field trial dogs, competing
with the field trial dogs, roading dogs, trail
riding, moving cattle, pulling a wagon, dragging
a harrow, or ponying other horses. Moon has a
square flat walk and running walk. His canter is
as natural as they come. He will slow lope next
to a running walk, stepping pace, or racking
horse and is willing to speed it up or break into a
gallop at anytime. He will canter and gallop
chasing dogs at a field trial all hours and at
anytime is willing to fall right back into the
gallery (group of horses) and be perfectly calm.
Being in his fifth year of production for us,
Moon has sired 19 registered foals, 12 of them
being stud colts. Moon’s foals have been
naturally gaited and have sensible minds. Four
of his colts are being used as field trial horses
already, and two of the owners of said horses
have already purchased a second colt by Moon.
Three of his foals have been selected for stud
horse prospects: Carbonado’s Chief Joseph at
Maple Acres Farms in Alberta, Canada,
Carbonado Bay At The Moon at Misty Hollow
Farm in Virginia, and Carbonado’s Black Gold
at Carbonado Farm. Another of his colts,
Kinder’s Society Bullet is already in production
at Kinder’s Walkers in Ohio .
Research done on Society Man's offspring in
2003 showed out of all the sons he produced,
only ONE, Paige's Black Boy, had sons who had
sons who are still in production today. Of the
Paige's Black Boy sons, only one son has sons
who are still in production, and that son is
Paige's Echo, the grandsire of my stallion. To
appreciate how rare this bloodline is when it
comes to an unbroken top line on the pedigree,
there are less than a dozen stallions in production
today that carry Society Man on their top line;
NFF Echo's Blue Moon is one of them.
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Website: www.carbonadofarm.com
For more about Moon, see the 2012
Performance Award winner story!!
Chrystal Star Ranch
ALLEN’S MIDNIGHT RASCAL
TWHBEA # 986450, CRTWH Reg # 19983434
Heritage Outcross Upgrade
Fran & Gordon Kerik
Two Hills, Alberta, Canada
Allen’s Midnight Rascal
(Mark’s Midnight Allen x Merry Go Boy’s
Black Angel)
Homozygous Black, Rascal carries on the great
bloodlines of Midnight Sun, Black Angel, Wilson's
Allen, Red Bud's Rascal, and Merry Go Boy on his
papers. Although he is only 14.2, he has magnificent
bone and the most awesome feet. My farrier claimed
that horses like him would put him out of business.
His offspring have ranged in height from 14.3 to
16hh; all have gotten his bone and feet. Rascal has a
deep striding walk with an awesome head shake.
He is my main riding horse, having ridden him in
parades, clinics, cattle drives, and of course, trail
rides.
Rascal is just a fantastic horse and is a credit to his
breed. I purchased him as a four month old colt as a
stallion prospect. I would not have had him this long
as a stallion if he wasn't. With over 30 foals on the
ground, his track record for gaited, trainable foals is
undisputed.
I consider him my once- in-a- lifetime horse. I've
done everything but show him. I was green to TWH
when I got him and had never shown, never mind a
stallion, so I never entered the show ring with him, to
my regret. However, we have done numerous other
riding activities. Just some of our adventures for
2008 include a clinic, moving cows, a parade, trail
riding, and going to the arena just for some fun (with
a stock trailer load of mares).
His amazing temperament lets me get on him after
long rests (weeks, months and sometimes years), and
ride him with a strange groups of horses.
His fabulous gait is being passed on 100% of the
time, no matter how the mare gaits. I've bred him to
pacy mares, trotty mares and mares that you just
aren't sure what gait they are doing, and every single
foal has gaited, a true four-beat walking horse gait.
His offspring have gone on to show at the Canadian
Futurities, always placing in the ribbons. I've shown
two three year old fillies by him, again competing
very well (especially as I didn't know what I was
doing), his daughter Mira getting High-point Two
Gait at one show when she was three. His other foals
have become super family horses, with nothing but
praise from their owners. All of them walk the walk.
Rascal also does a fantastic canter, a true, slow three
beat canter. I did not have to train it into him; it is
bred into him.
I do breed outside mares; each mare is in her own pen
and is hand bred. Rascal is a gentle stud and has
never bit or kicked a mare. Stud fee: $500
Mare Care: $7 day/dry $9 day/wet
You can see more pictures of Rascal and some of his
offspring on my website
www.csrwalkers.com or give me a call at
780-768-2250.
Kinch Creek El Ranchito
ARROW BOY’S TRIGGER # 924595
Ullu (Zurbriggen) Alexander
Riding Mountain, Manitoba
Arrow Boy’s Trigger
I just moved from British Columbia and in the
process of setting up the new farm. I will be
building a new web page but have email and
phone number set up.
Arrow Boy’s Trigger has produced palomino,
sorrel, chestnut, black, and buckskin colored
foals. His foals are good natured and easy to
train. We have frozen semen available. Stud fee
is $500 Canadian.
PO Box 119
Riding Mountain, Manitoba R0J 1T0
Email: Kinchcreek@hotmail.ca
Phone 204-967-2630 and 204-212-1960 (cell)
Trigger has not been Heritage Certified,
however, he has what it takes to be considered
for certification.
Kodiak Farms
OSTELLA’S STERLING IKE #20306482
Vince & Teresa Benefield
Buchanan, Georgia
Ostella’s Sterling Ike & Teresa Benefield
(Buds Sterling Bullet x Walk the Edge of GoodBye)
Ike, Poo Poo as we fondly refer to him, was a
summer (June) colt in 2003. He was sired by
Leon Oliver’s famed Bullet, and his dam was
Walk the Edge of Good-Bye. Bullet’s reputation
precedes him, and hers is also quite reputable.
Walk the Edge of Good-Bye (also known as Red
Bird) is now owned by Mike Davis of
Minnesota. Vince and I often regret missing the
opportunity to buy her when she was in foal with
Ike.
Ike came to Kodiak Farms in early November,
2003. It was clearly evident early on he had
inherited the wonderful disposition passed on by
both his sire and his dam.. He quickly settled in
with us and as Leon puts it we “spoiled” him. Ike
is a beautiful deep liver chestnut with two white
hind fetlocks. His thick, beautiful mane matches
his coat and his tail is mixed. He is 14.2 hands,
and what he may lack in height, he certainly
makes up for in the breadth and beauty of his
neck and very short back. Wow!
Ike started under saddle as a two year old with
Marty Lowe. He spent a few months with Marty
before returning home to our farm. I love to ride
him; he has a fun, very natural gait and has a
great head for his rider. He doesn’t spook easily,
and even though I greatly respect the fact he’s a
stallion, he’s a very safe ride. I don’t ride him
regularly, and even though it’s been a long time
since I rode him, I wouldn’t be afraid at all to
crawl right back on him now and go for a ride.
He’s just that great and trustworthy.
Though Ike is coming ten in June, we’ve been in
no rush to breed him. However, at least one of
our mares is currently in foal with what will be
his first colt, expected late May. We are excited
for the prospects of how wonderful his offspring
will be and anticipate this will be the first of
many colts to come. If you are looking for a
beautiful and trusted stallion with a natural gait
for sire, you will love both his look and his
disposition. If you have serious interest ,you may
contact Vince at 770-317-5092 or myself at 770328-3094 for more information about Ike, our
Heritage stallion.
Roc Ridge Walkers
TENNESSEE GOLDUST #860734
(Not certified)
Debbie Zaktansky
Watsontown, Pennsylvania
his foals from registered Heritage mares eligible
for Heritage registry. Stud Fee Private Treaty,
special rate for registered Heritage or Heritage
Outcross mares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkbwDcHcar
g&feature=player_detailpage video being
ridden at 25 yrs old
Tennessee Goldust
Tennessee Goldust 16.1 hands golden
palomino stallion One of only a very few Sunless registered walking horses available for
breeding.
Naturally gaited with a deep backend and good
head nod. Very gentle and easy to handle and
his foals are known for the same. They are easy
and willing to train and have outstanding
versatility and gait.
Proven sire of foals that are outstanding pleasure
horses and also have placements on iped in
halter, water glass, plantation pleasure, lite shod,
easy rider, trail, barrels, poles, and over fences in
regional shows as well as International and
Whoa Versatility shows. He also has had
offspring on working cattle ranches. His sons
and daughters are found in most states and also 4
foreign countries.
Beauty, gait, athletic ability, gentle and willing
nature along with rare breeding, proven producer
of outstanding foals for pleasure riding and lite
shod showing. 27 years old this year, was just
collected for frozen semen in Dec 2012 and had
excellent semen count and motility.
Don’t miss out on this unique individual! He
has 20 horses from the 1930’s and 40’s on his
papers and puts 6 on his foal’s papers, making
One of Goldust’s foals
Slush Creek Walkers
SLUSH CREEKS JUBAL S #917961
Mark & Shellie Pacovsky
Bainville, Montana
Slush Creeks Jubal S
(Miller’s Super Man X Ebony’s Gingerale)
Slush Creek's Jubal S. is a black minimal sabino.
We get a couple of lit-up sabino foals, out of
solid mares, every year.. He has an exceptionally
quiet and gentle nature, a nice natural running
walk, and a gorgeous head. He stands 16.1 hands
with the thicker, heavier, using/pleasure horse
body style. He has been given the
nickname,"The Gentle Giant", by those that have
met him in person. It has been said "you just
can't beat that Jubal disposition" and "for size
and bone, he's the man!"
Slush Creeks Jubal S is a grandson of Sun’s
Merry Man; this beautiful stallion offers the
VERY rare access to the bloodlines of the
incomparable Hill’s Perfection. 14 time World
Champion Hill’s Perfection will still show on his
foals' registration papers. (Hill’s perfection's
registered name was Reyclif Mid-Merry
#561395 and that was not changed; he was only
campaigned as Hill's Perfection). Sun's Merry
Man, the only offspring by Hill's Perfection to
reproduce, was owned by and stood at the
Double Diamond Ranch for many years.
Slush Creek's Jubal S is the product of the late
Calvin Miller's breeding program. Calvin bred,
trained, rode, and used Tennessee Walking
Horses for ranch work for 30+ years. "Jubal" was
the last stallion to come off the famed Double
Diamond Ranch.
Slush Creeks Jubal S. has NEVER worn shoes in
his life. He is DNA-tested - E/e N/SB1. (E/e
means both red and black factors have been
detected. He can contribute either E (black) or e
(red) to his offspring. The N/SB1 means only
one copy of the Sabino 1 gene has been
detected.)
Jubal LOVES people and attention. He will leave
his broodmare band to get the attention he
desires. He has been ridden away from his mares
bareback with only a halter and lead rope on.
Jubal passes on these outstanding qualities to his
foals, which makes them a pleasure to train.
Most of his offspring have been trained by their
amateur owners.
Stud Fee is private treaty.
Website: www.slushcreekwalkers.com
Slush Creek Walkers
DELIGHT’S MIDNIGHT LEGEND #900539
Mark & Shellie Pacovsky
Bainville, Montana
Delight’s Midnight Legend
(Delight’s Shadow Man X Sun’s Lady Glory)
This awesome black, 15 hand Tennessee
Walking Horse stallion is a grandson of both
Midnight Sun and Sun’s Delight D. His pedigree
also contains the blue blood of Go Boy’s
Shadow, Merry Go Boy, Black Dust MR, Merry
Boy, Merry Walker, Wilson’s Allen, Dement’s
Allen, and Roan Allen F-38. Impressive stuff!
He also shares a sire with Tsuniah Sunday, the
WGC lite-shod gelding and ambassador of the
TWH breed to Germany.
All initially certified Heritage Horses required a
minimum of 5 horses with registration numbers
from the 1930’s and 1940’s still showing on their
pedigrees. Delight’s Midnight Legend has 22
such horses still on his pedigree. Alone, by
himself, Gabe will still put 6 of these horses on
his foal’s pedigree. What this means is that even
if your mare has no registration numbers from
that time period to contribute, her foal would still
be eligible for certification with the Heritage
Society, providing it meets all of the other
criteria. There are only a very few stallions that
can provide this, and Delight’s Midnight Legend
is one of them!
Delight’s Midnight Legend, or Gabe as he is
affectionately called, was bred, born, and raised
by Kathy Stumph of Amazing Grace Tennessee
Walkers. Kathy owned him until he was 18 years
old, when she retired from breeding. She was
very particular about who and where he was
going to go. Gabe arrived at Slush Creek
Walkers on November 7,2008. Slush creek
Walkers had their first foals by him in the spring
of 2010. These foals have been very walky and
easy to train. We are looking forward to starting
his first foals for SCW under saddle in the
spring.
Gabe loves people and attention. He has an
abundance of natural gaiting ability and has
proven to pass that on to his offspring. Anyone
can ride him, and he is easy to handle when
breeding. He especially loves to share dill pickle
sunflower seeds with Mark.
Website: www.slushcreekwalkers.com
Slush Creek Walkers
THE LITTLE RED RASCAL #20709238
Mark & Shellie Pacovsky
Bainville, Montana
The Little Red Rascal #20709238
(Bud’s Sterling Bullet X Red Bud’s Last
Dreamer)
The Little Red Rascal, also known as Mikey, is a
bay currently standing 15 hands. He was
purchased as a yearling from Tennessee. Mikey
has a very natural, even, correctly timed, 4-beat
gait. His head just nods away while he walks.
Mikey's movement is the picture of what a
running walk is supposed to look like. He comes
from a long-proven lines of usin’ Tennessee
Walking horses with good minds on both sides.
Mikey has had over 60 days of professional
training under saddle, and his gait just continued
to get better as he matured. Slush Creek Walkers
had their first foals by Mikey in 2011. The Little
Red Rascal's foals are everything we had hoped
for. Thus far they have proven to be smart,
willing, and walky. We can’t wait to see them
under saddle.
Stud fee is $500.
Website: www.slushcreekwalkers.com
Tsuniah Walkers
NFF SOCIETY KING’S OPUS #20702496 &
#2007(CAN)3632 Canadian
Roberta Brebner
Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Opie with Trevor Mertes on board
NFF Society King’s Opus, “Opie”
(NFF Wilson’s Society King x Rascal’s
Favorite Lady)
We’re going into our third season of foals sired
by NFF Society King’s Opus. So far I’m real
happy with my Opie foals. I am getting
consistently good natured foals that are easy to
work with. That was my biggest reason for
buying him. Opie is always good to work with,
gets along well with all the horses.
Opie in 2009, still growing
Opie is easy to have on the farm. He’s not afraid
of the farm machinery and he doesn’t make a
fuss when the mares come around. He is friendly
toward people and “talks” to me when I’m out by
his paddock.
Opie spent some time with Trevor Mertes and
learned what riding was all about. He learned the
basics and did some breeding. He liked that the
stallion could show up in a whole new place and
make himself at home and not be a problem on
the farm.
Opie is being offered at public stud on a limited
basis, live cover only. He is Canadian and
TWHBEA registered
One of Opie’s 2011 foals
Uphill Farm
WALKIEN JESSIE SKYWALKER
#20513459
Charles & Marjorie Lacy
Edson, Alberta, Canada
Jesse in training with Bill Roy
Walkien Jesse Skywalker
Walkien Jesse Skeywalker sired by Northfork
Sky Walker out of Jessie Dee. Double registered.
2004 Dark chestnut stallion with mixed mane
and tail.
With gait, good looks, and disposition, Jesse has
it all. He is the only Canadian born, bred &
CRTWH registered stallion approved by TWH
Heritage Society.
Standing at
Grindrod, BC. 250-838-2066 or email
woodhill@telus.net.
Wind Shadows Farm
LOOK AT SHADOW’S GO BOY #941280
Diane Bromenschenkel
Nampa, Idaho
Look at Shadow’s Go Boy
Wind Shadows Farm in the Treasure Valley near
Boise, Idaho, welcomes your mare to visit “Look
At Shadows Go Boy” (Red). We are a small
farm located adjacent to Deer Flat National
Wildlife Refuge in Nampa, Idaho. We brought
Red from North Carolina and started him under
saddle at age 16. He was then Heritage Certified.
He’s shown his wonderful gait, intelligence, and
a willing demeanor that most horses wouldn’t
display when they’ve been transported from the
only pasture and barn they’ve known since birth.
He had never been off his NC farm.
Red is now 19 years old. We’ve had a 100%
production, out of the mares we’ve bred, and
we’re very pleased with the foals. You can see
Red’s information, pedigree and video at:
http://www.windshadowsfarm.com/stallion.htm
Red's sire was born in 1966 and his dam in
1982. Capture these bloodlines while they're
available.
“Red”
Red is a grandson of Merry Go Boy with Sun’s
Delight D and Triple Threat breeding on the
bottom.
Website: www.windshadowsfarm.com
Red stands for $500, live foal, with a $100
deposit. We are offering 2 weeks of free mare
care to a few select mares in order to pass on
these wonderful old bloodlines and would
consider a mare lease option.
The Sales Barn
Kinders Walkers, Circleville, Ohio is offering
these two nice mares for sale:
Kinders True Sundrop #20606789
Echo's Lilly White #20610044
Lilly White is now being offered for sale only
due to me falling 10 feet on my back and still not
back to work full time. I rode her this fall and
she is a true Heritage Walking Horse, standing
16 hands tall. Lilly can do all the trail tasks and
yes, brush popping, too. She loads, trims, etc.
and is up to date on worming and shots. I bred
Lilly to Valentino in May. She is due in April
and it should be a black sabino. I am asking
$2800 and the price will go up after she foals so
call me now and get a nice horse!
Sonny is a true chestnut roan (no white marks),
DNA tested (aa) and homozygous for black tips
on her foals. She has already had one true blue
roan foal from a black stud. Selling her open.
Sabrina has been riding her for over a year now.
Sonny will go where you ask her to go and
seems to enjoy trails as much as we do. She gets
to host our guests on trail rides and has been on
many overnight camping trips. I am only selling
due to my fall, she is in no way a trade horse and
I would like to see her go to a forever home as a
riding horse, not just a brood mare.
$2000.00.
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Makes the world so much smaller.” Sharon Corr,
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liked Sharon Corr’s story. These guys down here
made such a big deal over Jackie McConnell’s
story like it was something new and he was the
only one doing this crap but what he was doing
has been a way of life for the trainers for 30-40
years! That’s why I quit going to the
Celebration. If I had known Sharon was eating at
that restaurant that wouldn’t put up the signs
supporting big lick, I would have gone up there
and met her and ate lunch with her! If it wasn’t
for the trail riders, the horse business would
really be in the dumps.” Leon Oliver,
Cornersville, Tennessee via phone call
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and raining) I had lots of time to sit on the couch
and read Highlights as soon as you sent it! I sure
like Roberta Brebner's story and the great
pictures of riding in British Columbia. Fun to see
Bullet's Elusive Angel (Elly when she was my
horse) being ridden bareback into the water by
Patrick. But, I never rode her bareback. If it was
just 1000 or so miles closer, I would REALLY
like to go up there and ride with Roberta. Maybe
she would let me ride Elly!” Joan Hendricks,
Owen, Wisconsin
From Equinox (November Calendar boy):
Dear Sandra;
Thank you for the nice comments about my
autobiography in the November Highlights! But,
I'm not accepting any blame for you now having
that nice little Anouck mare. That should be
credit, not blame. :) That mare looks a lot like
my mother - including the "well fed" look - and
her gait appears to be very similar. I would love
to give you another ride if you can ever make it
back here to see me again.” Equinox
“I glanced through the Heritage news, and will
have to read more later, but really enjoyed seeing
those big kids riding Max & Mayflower and
swimming with them. The horses and the kids
are so obviously enjoying the summer heat and
that deep water, that it brings back memories of
doing those same things back when I was a teen.
Makes me smile!” Robin Moore, Des Moines,
Iowa
“Good job on the Highlights again, I really enjoy
them.” Billy Taylor, Winchester, Tennessee
“Dear Highlights-Enjoyed Sharon Corr's article.
She offers the hopeful view that day of the sored
horses can become an anachronistic practice”
Nancy Bergman, Whitehall, Wisconsin
“ I liked that ride to Echo beach story and the
pictures of the horses in the water - gotta get to
the mountains to ride one of these days myself.”
Mike Davis, Wabasha, Minnesota
“Please pardon my impatience.
The January edition of Heritage Highlights
appears to have gone AWOL.
I have checked the website to no avail: it is not
there! Highlights, oh Highlights, wherefore art
thou oh Highlights. Life is so boring without the
latest update on matters Walking Horses
globally. Please tell me it is merely a temporary
unavailability of my favourite equine magazine.
Any permanent delay will be devastatingly
catastrophic in my ordered existence.”
Henry C Ferreira, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Sorry Henry, there wasn’t a January issue)
The Walking Horse Journal
is now available online in color!
Find it at:
www.walkinghorsejournal.com
NEWS & CONGRATULATIONS
HOW TO SUBMIT MATERIAL TO
HIGHLIGHTS
By Franne Brandon, Petersburg, Tennessee
Heritage Horses Sold
Do you enjoy reading the articles in Heritage
Highlights and sometimes wish that you could
share your own adventures, experiences, or
knowledge with the readership?
Heritage Outcrosses Sold
Readers seem to be enjoying the stories of every
day people and their horses so we thought we’d
share a couple of publications dedicated to
Tennessee Walking Horses that are not show
oriented:
Walking Horse Journal, published bi-monthly by
Four Craftsmen Publishing of Lakeside, Arizona.
Website: www.fourcraftsmen.com/whj
This magazine features stories on flat shod horses
who are used for trail riding, endurance, and other
disciplines and there are some good training
articles as well.
Canadian Walking Horse News, is published bimonthly by Marjorie Lacy of Alberta, Canada. The
magazine is dedicated to the plain shod horse in
Canada and features articles by the Heritage
Society’s Franne Brandon on the history of the
Walking Horse breed.
Website: www.walkinghorsenews.ca
Both of these are very good publications for
people who are interested in the versatile using
horse!!
You can! Heritage Highlights encourages all
articles, long, short, or of moderate length, about
all aspects of the Heritage Horse world.
Submissions can be sent via email messages or
in Word format as email attachments. Grammar
is not a major issue because we have a copy
editor (C'est moi!) who reads each article before
the layout editor works her magic touch.
Highlights welcomes all photo submissions that
accompany an article.
Photographs tell the story in many cases, and
because we are a non-print publication, we do
not have the photographic limits of a magazine.
It is best to send all photographs separately from
the text, as downloadable email attachments,
with each shot accompanied by a clear caption.
This works out best from the layout perspective.
The Heritage Highlights staff looks forward to
hearing from more of the readership in future
issues.
CONTACT US:
Advertising in Highlights:
If anyone would like to place a classified ad in
Highlights, our set up fee is $10 for photos
and text.
Also, if you purchase a Heritage Horse from
someone who already has a certificate for the
horse and you would like the certificate in
your name, we can print a new certificate and
mail it for a $5.00 fee to cover the certificate,
mailer and postage.
Franne & Harry Brandon, Petersburg, TN
(931) 276-2232
Email: handfbrandon@united.net
Sandra van den Hof, Hechtel, Belgium
+32 (0) 11 666 158
Email: sandra@pleasuregaits.com
Leon & Mary Lou Oliver, Cornersville, TN
(931) 293-4156
For a listing of horses for sale, visit us
on our website:
Danny & Sherry Taylor, Winchester, TN
(931) 967-9553
Email: elkriverfarm@hotmail.com
www.twhheritagesociety.com
Billy & Mary Taylor, Winchester, TN
(931) 967-9621
Email: confederatehills@gmail.com
The Heritage Highlights will now be
available on our website so you can
download them any time!!
Diane Sczepanski, Whitehall, WI
(715) 538-2494
Email: northern_foundations@yahoo.com
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trainer, style of natural training, or tack and
horse equipment, to the exclusion of others, as
each horse is an individual and not all will
respond positively to a particular trainer or
training style. Articles published by the
Society, which include such endorsements,
reflect the view of the author, but not
necessarily that of the Society.