Trivia Archive 6

Wow!!! Thank you Smitty!! Sad to say but I don't have one picture of Senator..well didn't until now!! I did have several but they were in with a group of pictures that went missing. I appreciate you posting this...he was one more Great 2 yr old that is for sure!! I wonder if he would have done better as an aged stallion if he were owned by someone who loved him as much as I did???

Nice article Rambler...lots of information with great pictures and videos!! Enjoyed it!!

Harvest Moon sold for $2000 in the 1930s.

Didn't Midnight Sun sell for $6000.00 early in his career?

Harvest Moon is probably one of them, but this horse sold for even more at about that same time...

Bubbadog and Decker here think that maybe it's Merry Go Boy. We just saw cancelled checks for him at WH Museum. One was a down payment for $10,000 and the other was a balance of $25,000. However, neither one of us remember the year that the checks were written. We had more on our minds.

Hard to say, but I believe PRIDE OF MEMPHIS may have been the first horse to sell for big bucks.
He sold for $5000 at a time when that would have been considered a huge amount of money.
That would have been in the 30's or even earlier I think.

No pictures from the walking horse museum???

Thanks, Smitty. I just love that old photo of Ebony's Double in that cooler with all those - what were those flowers? Carnations?

Pride Of Memphis sold for 5k in 1937.

High Chapparal,

Did you ever attend any of the southern Kentucky shows, such as Albany or Russell Springs?

Yes, I used to show at all of them. I won a lot of blue ribbons up in Kentucky but one thing was a fact, you better have'um right when you went up their or they would send you back over the hill crying. Great times!!!

I remember Russell Springs having a big, nice old-fashioned covered grandstand. The kind you don't see anymore. They had a racetrack that went all the way around the fairgrounds and through the horse show ring, in front of the grandstand. Seems like they had mule races there back in the day. I recall Bill Bailey winning the stake class there one year on Threat's Image.

I showed at Russell Springs every year. Great place to test and see how good your horses were doing. Stiff competation! They used to have Standard bred racing on Saturday's on that track. I remember when Bill won the celebration on Threat's Image. I sat close to Bill's daddy on qualifing night. His name was Hugh. Bill tied about 7th that night and Hugh told me after the show the problem that night was Bill was not chewing his tobacco. Championship night he had his "chew' and won the World Championship. I guess Hugh was correct.

Yes, Bill HAD to have his chew to stay LEVEL!!! LOL!

I grew up in Pulaski County and my first shows were down in that area. Albany, Monticello, Columbia, London, Somerset, Waynesburg, Stanford, Liberty, Brodhead...........I started out showing a little plantation horse at those shows when I was about 11 years old. A few years later I had a juvenile horse that I did fairly well with. I miss the southern Ky shows more than any I guess. The atmosphere was just so wonderful.

I remember a great horse from your area called DELIGHT'S COMMANDER..............does that ring a bell???

Yes I remember Commander well. Bill Bilbrey had him. Bill had a groom that would dog walk him three hours a day. Bill had a young mare at that time named Joyful Delight. I think she was a full sister to Commander. She was better than he was. I saw Bill show Commander up at Somerset,KY one night and Bill Bailey was showing Go Boy's Road Runner. Bailey wore him out that night but Bilbrey won the class. Bill teid 5th one year in the big stake at the celebration on Commander and I thought he should have been about 2nd. Bill won a lot of shows on Commander and I always thought he helped him under his training.

Do any of you folks remember this great mare? She was a walking "Machine". People up in our area would travel many miles just to see her show.

Commander & Roadrunner were BOTH top horses with lots of walk about them. BOTH should have tied higher in the championship stake than they did in my humble opinion. One of our members on here showed Roadrunner at least once and maybe owned him at one time...........I THINK???

Is that right Thirdworkout???

If you're talking about Ebony Go Boy's Dream............I've never seen a better one.
WALKINEST thang that ever lived. I was showing out of Bob McQuerry's stables when he had her as three and four year old. Watched her work a lot. She got better and better the older she got and won with every trainer and rider that had her. One of our members did very well with her....

I was actually talking about Rock-A-Bye Lady. She was the mare the Charlie Martin showed as a four old and went to Vic's. Late 60's. Ebony Go Boy's Dream was also a GREAT mare. The two mares had a lot in common. In my opinion these were the two best mares I ever saw. I have seen a few do more up front, but a lot less everywhere else.

Their is "no question" that both should have tied right at the top. However we know how that goes.

Great Mares? I'll call on your memories from the past. The year: 1977, The class: WGC, The rider: David Polk. When this mare came in the Big Stake and for about two laps, she probably was the best Walking Horse ever, any sex. Anybody remember her name?
Hint: She was the Aged Mare WC that year

Darling Delight, she was owned by the Colemans.

Old footage of Elvis on horseback

What color was Larry Edward's riding habit when he won the Junior Championship with Pride's Generator?