Let's Talk Walking Horse Trivia

Those were actually pretty good questions, Razor. It's just very hard to stump the panel !!!
Don't give up though, because in the future we will need everyone to contribute trivia questions.

Here another "obscure" one....



How many Grand Ole Opry stars can you name that owned Tennessee Walking Horses?
(I can think of at least three....)

Dont know if they were Opra stars but, Charlie Daniels, Ernie Ford, Eddie Arnold, Hawkshaw Hawkins.

I've posted some stuff on Hawkshaw Hawkins before, so he's definitely one of em.
Hadn't thought about Eddie Arnold, but he too was a star of the Grand Ole Opry.
Ditto for Ernie Ford I guess.
I'm sure Charlie Daniels has played the Opry, but I wouldn't consider him one of the old Opry stars.

There's at least a few others that Jean didn't mention.

Rheba McIntyre?
Loretta Lynn?
Roy Acuff?

Roy Acuff was one of the answers I'm looking for. According to a biography on Roy's life, he owned a TWH stud called Pearl Harbor.

I have a photo of a TWH called Pearl Harbor from that era but I don't know for sure if it's the same one Roy owned.
It would seem likely though.


Pearl Harbor


Hint: The other star I'm thinking was one half of a DUO....................

Possibly one of the Wilburn Brothers.

Lester Flatt!

Lester Flatt is CORRECT!

Seems I remember someone saying on one of the very old threads that Lester Flatt had horses with Steve Hill.
I also recall that Minnie Pearl used to frequent Steve's barn, but I'm uncertain if she had any horses or not.

ok, I'll do my part.
What was the name of Betty Sain's farm in Bell Buckle?

Is this a trick question?In pictures of her barn there is a sign that says SAIN STABLES.

No, her farm had a name. I think it was Desirada, or something like that.

close enough! Desiderata to be precise. She named it after a popular poem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata

What well-known TWH trainer made a trip to Israel to deliver some TWH's?

Tough one!

ANSWER: BETTY SAIN


more on this Monday......

Possibly the most competitive Grand Championship stake at the
Celebration had 5 past and future World Grand Champions entered.
1. What year was it?
2. Who were the horses?
3. What horse won?

HINT: It was over 40 years ago.

Was Triple Threat one of the horses?

1963?

Wrong on both counts.
Big Hint: The winner was owned by the Orkin Man.

1970?

1970 is Correct. The winner that year was Aces Sensation and Wink Groover owned by Randall Rollins.
Who were the other four past and future World Grand Champions in that class?

I can only come up with 3 others besides Ace. Handshaker's Delight, Sensational Shadow and Shaker's Shocker.

MIB good job!It was a trick question. There were only four.You're too good.

1970 World Grand Championship Class World Champion Entries:

1st. Aces Sensation
3rd Handshakers Delight
5th Sensational Shadow
10th Shakers Shocker


That was probably the last time Betty Sain showed Shocker. Don't know for sure

Howard Roberts did write a children's book about a little boy and his TWH.
Writing a children's book was an assignment in an education course he was taking
in college. The teacher was impressed and suggested he send it to a publisher.
My son, Proctor, brought the book home from his school's library when he was in
about the fourth grade. Howard was in NC at the time and the next time I saw him
I ask him if he was the author and he told me the story of how he came to write the
book