Trivia Archive 3

At onetime during his show career, Command Performance was owned by Larry and Carolyn ? Ross.

smitty wrote:

Besides all being World Grand Champions, what do the following horses have in common?
(Hint: it has nothing to do with their breeding or who trained them...)

Setting Sun
Rodger's Perfection
Mack K's Handshaker
Sun's Delight
Carbon Copy
Shaker's Shocker
Sensational Shadow
Motown Magic
The Pushover
Flashy Pride
The Touch

Nobody touched this one, but these are all World Grand Champions who FAILED in their attempt to become a JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION. There may even be some I left off this list. There have been quite a few that never won as Four-Year-Olds. By the same token, there have also been many Junior World Champs that never went on to win the big one. Some interesting statistics there, but I'm too lazy to look em all up!

OHM, Larry Ross did own Command Performance at one time, as did Laura Brandon and Wink Groover and several others. Don Bridges was the last owner.

Command Performance was pasture bred in south Ga. for a long time . When he was moved to Sand Creek he died a short time later.

Ebony's Senator was another that never won the Junior World Championship.

One of my best mares is by Jazz Man out of a full sister to Generator's Turbo. I had seen pictures of him but knew very little about him. Anybody know what kind of ties he got at the celebration?



What about the Duke's Elkhorn Ace line? I have seen a number of good horses from this line...Duke's Timbrook, Duke Power...was he from middle Tennessee? Also, Shades of Carbon had a large impact on the Racking horse late in life after being brought to Alabama.

Smitty, I may be wrong but didn't Carbon Copy win the Big one when he was four. I thought Joe elected to show him in the WGC rather than the Jr Championship.

This is an interesting topic...I'm trying to remember if 1966 or thereabouts was the first year that the 3 year olds did not canter...seems to me that somewhere in that time frame was when they added the 4 year old/Junior classes and I'm thinking that Boyd Hudgens and Man of Rhythm won the 1966 Junior Championship and Betty and Shocker skipped it and went for the Big Stake. Does this seem to ring any bells?

TC, It was in the early 70s when they did away with the canter for 3 y.o.s. 66 was the first year that 4 y.o.s were considered Jr. hosses rather than aged hosses and Shaker's Shocker won the 4 y.o. stud class and skipped the Jr. stake and won the big one. Man Of Rhythm was the WGC Jr. hoss that year.

Big Ed, C C was a junior hoss in 63 and was reserve WGC Jr. hoss behind Go Boy's Black Jack. In 64 C C was considered an aged hoss.

MIB,

Thanks for the clarification on the canter!! You know what they say about the sixties...if you were REALLY there, you don't remember much, lol.

Christie B

Fetch, I see on IPEDS that Turbo tied 8th in the stud class at the Celebration in 94.

Duke's Elkorn Ace hoss was in East Tn.

Pop Quiz



1. Final resting place of Hayne's Peacock.
2. Showed Delight's Moonrock as a Two-Year-Old.
3. Sun's Hero stood here.
4. Wa-Moo-Lang's daddy.
5. This mare won 106 straight blue ribbons.
6. Owned "Suit's-Me Farms" in the 'borough.
7. Co. started by Bryan Thomas & J.C. & Brent Damron.
8. Showed Merry Motion Maker.
9. Trained at the "End-O-The Roe".....
10. Johnny Midnight's best baby girl.
11. Hansa Stables was in what state?
12. Russell Pate's assistant.
13. Home of the Cotton Carnival.
14. Hoosier who owned Lynwood Stables.
15. Showed Gunsmoke's City Girl.

.....let's let everyone have a go at some of these please. Try not to answer more than 3 per person.

Thanks!

No. 4 Carbon Copy
No. 13 Memphis, Tennessee

2 Jackie McConnell

6 = Pat Kimbrough


12 = Ray Gilmer


14 = Lynn Utter Northrop

All answers are correct so far! 9 more to go........

#11 Virginia

#7 World Champion Horse equip.

Hints:

1. One of his photos on here should give a good clue...
3. His first name is my last name...
5. A WGC...
7. Senator 69's answer was very, very close...
8. Shown by a trainer who used to train in a town with an Indian name...
9. In the Palmetto State...
10. One of our member's owned her...
15. Last name is the same as a famous model...

5 Midnight Merry

9 Ralph Hensley

10 Johnny's Rebel Maid

ANSWERS

1. Final resting place of Hayne's Peacock.
THE FRONT LAWN OF THE MANSION AT HAYNE'S HAVEN (Which is now a Saturn plant, of course...)
2. Showed Delight's Moonrock as a Two-Year-Old.
JACKIE MCCONNELL
3. Sun's Hero stood here.
THOMAS EATON STABLES
4. Wa-Moo-Lang's daddy.
CARBON COPY
5. This mare won 106 straight blue ribbons.
MIDNIGHT MERRY
6. Owned "Suit's-Me Farms" in the 'borough.
MR. PAT KIMBROUGH
7. Co. started by Bryan Thomas & J.C. & Brent Damron.
WALKING HORSE SUPPLY
8. Showed Merry Motion Maker.
WINK GROOVER (who onced trained in Etowah...)
9. Trained at the "End-O-The Roe".....
RALPH HENSLEY (End-O-The-Roe Stables)
10. Johnny Midnight's best baby girl.
JOHNNY'S REBEL MAID
11. Hansa Stables was in what state?
VIRGINIA (Howard Roberts once trained there...)
12. Russell Pate's assistant.
RAY GILMER
13. Home of the Cotton Carnival.
MEMPHIS
14. Hoosier who owned Lynwood Stables.
HOWARD UTTER (...or Lynn is acceptable...)
15. Showed Gunsmoke's City Girl.
MURIEL BRINKLEY (out of Vic Thompson Stables...)

MORE TRIVIA QUIZZES NEXT WEEKEND!!!

In the meantime....

Who wrote a column for Voice magazine called "Working with Walking Horses for Pleasure and Show" ???

Hint: this just might be a current WHT member !!!

Since I evidently don't mind embarassing myself by being wrong; I will go ahead and take a stab at this one too?? I know Deedy Decker has written some articles in the past; so would it be our own Sensation61?