Trivia Archive 5

Smitty
I didn't see him at that show, but i did ride him one day at Gray's when he was a 3yr.old,Deep Walking, Back Leg Draggin, Breaking Reaching, High Headed, Head Shaking ,Snot Slinging Bad Lttle fella, he felt like you were riding a 17 hand horse, had to look around his Neck Cause you COULDN'T see over his Head, Now do ya think i liked him

Sounds like he was a walking fool. wish i could seen him show

Big'n
He was as Good as you would have ever seen, Done a Bunch and done it with EASE, He was Unbelieveable, I've only rode TWO horses that felt like that, the other one was RITZ

if he had lived he could had a big impact on the breeding part if his colts were as good as he was.

Yep, No dought he would have sired some goodens and he was Pretty also

Big'n I know he could have been a great breeding stallion.
I only wish I had pictures of him when he was born but we were so busy just trying to keep him alive.
He was a very sweet horse and would always respond to you. You know some studs do not have that
great personality and are very stubborn or mean. Rowdy and "9" both have that sweet personality as well as Coin and Mister Delight.
I only wish he had lived longer.

DB, Billy raised a dark bay or black horse that he and Olivia were very proud of. For the life of me, I can't remember the name. He placed very well at the Celebration and was sold. I want to say it was something like Dark (something)???? I don't know what happened to the horse after it was sold. Olivia's dad, Mr. Bill Meek, raised some nice colts too. One was Motown Motion. I was at Olivia's place last summer and she carries on the tradition with some really nice yearlings.

Deltaboy,
I don't know the answer to Your last question, exactly, I bought them from an Antique store. I will talk to You more about it some time. There was an enormous amount of old stuff, that surfaced around Shelbyville all at once, about 15 years ago. All the stuff was from the 40's. I just got a small portion of it. But as You can see, I got some Trophies. I want to post a similar display of old & rare magazines sometime.

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OGM,

Bill Meek did raise some outstanding colts [including Pride's Choice Cut], but I believe he had passed from the scene when Motown Motion came along. I believe that was all Olivia. She is an excellent horsewoman & a wonderful person. Her husband Jimmy is a top horseman & a good fellow, too. They have prepped our yearlings for the sales, halter-broken weanlings, & occasionally foaled mares for us for about the last 10 years. There is none better in the business.

I don't remember the bay or black horse to which you refer. I believe Motown Motion was out of Gold Coin mare that was out of Choice Cut's dam.

I couldn't agree more about Olivia. I need to talk to her anyway. I will try to get in touch with her this weekend and see if she knows the horse I am talking about. Yes, I think you are correct about Motion. She still has Motion's mother. The last time we talked she was telling me about one that was currently being started that she was very high on. When Olivia tells me a horse is good, I totally believe her since she rarely brags on her own stock!!

OGM...I do remember that horse and his name was Dark . I know Bill Bobo had him and he was black. One of the fillies out of Motown Motions dam, and by Cash's Black Jack, won 2 park pleasure WC's last year.

I know that guy holding the horse in picture 7, can't think of his name, he broke colts for Mr. Loyd Smith over around Lynchburg, The guy in the Hat and whittling looks like John T Carter
6--Joe Van Clayton on left and Mack Motes on right

OHM, what horse was that? Now I have REALLY got to talk to her this weekend!! :)

SB,

That is a great [& rare] picture of the horse show building at the Tenn. State Fair. I read an article recently in an old National Horseman about it burning down in 1970, just one year after the Tenn. State Fair Horse Show had been restarted. I wonder when it was built?

Also, I think the size of this building indicates that horse shows were "big-time" events in Tennessee well before the Celebration.

Deltaboy,
I'm pretty sure that came from Mary Ella & think she had more (several yrs ago), Sorry to say, I never saw the building.

You know I remember that black horse but cannot think of his name.I will ask Bill.
The last horse we had for Olivia was chestnut I believe.

SB, is that barn that is in McMinnville still there?
Isn't there one by the showgrounds that is still standing?

That barn used to be where Three Star Mall is today. I don't know about one by the fairgrounds.

Did you get the picture that I left yesterday?

For me personally, the photo of the guys sitting under the old tree in the ring stirs up many Celebration memories, like no other photo has.

Yeah Boy Smitty, bought and sold many a horse under that Tree, and tipped many Drinks down under that Tree

E - DID YOU CLIMB THAT TREE?

Na Bubbadog never did climb it BUT, well na better Not

Didn't Mr. F T T rest in peace for a couple days under that tree?

Yep he did, just dropped over