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The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration is the oldest breed-specific show for the Tennessee Walking Horse. While it includes over 100 classes, only one horse is selected as World Grand Champion every year. Almost all winners are stallions. [1]
The Celebration later moved to Shelbyville, which is located about 60 miles southeast of Nashville, [3] due to space issues, as small Wartrace was unable to cope with the volume of visitors and horses the show attracted. [1] Shelbyville is now known as the Walking Horse Capital of the World. [4] The modern Celebration spans 11 days in late ...
Watch It Now was trained by Jimmy McConnell. In 2008 McConnell entered him in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and placed fourth in two classes, including the Four-Year-Old World Championship. McConnell and Watch It Now entered the Celebration again the next year and won the World Grand Championship. [3]
Harry Butler looks back at the storied career of Rock-A-Bye Lady, a championship Tennessee Walking Horse honored more than 50 years after her death.
Strolling Jim was a three-year-old in 1939, when the first Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration was held in Wartrace. He was shown by Floyd Carothers and the pair won the World Grand Championship. [1] After his win, Strolling Jim was sold multiple times and finally sold out of state to a farm in California.
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In 1935 the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association was formed, and it closed the studbook in 1947. In 1939, the first Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration was held. In the early 21st century, this annual event attracted considerable attention and controversy because of issues linked to abuse of horses that was practiced to ...
He was sold to Kay Dennis as a three-year-old, and she put him in training with Bill Bobo of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Ridden by Bobo, Pride's Jubilee Encore won the Tennessee State Championship as a three-year-old. In 1995 Bobo entered him in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and won the Four-Year-Old World Championship. Pride's ...