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World Grand Champion in 1974 |
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Another Masterpiece #681363 |
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ANOTHER MASTERPIECE
was a physically outstanding example of a champion Tennessee Walking
Horse. He was a jet black stallion, weighing approximately 1250 pounds
and standing 17 hands tall. He was considered by veteran horse
show observers to be one of the breed's most natural horses, and
proved he had the stamina to win against the toughest competition.
It is rare for a horse of his size to be considered "a pretty horse"
but ANOTHER MASTERPIECE was one of the most physically attractive
champions in years.
The breeding of
ANOTHER MASTERPIECE was well planned by the owner of both his sire and
dam, Billy Hale. Billy bred his great 1962 World Grand Champion,
EBONY MASTERPIECE, to PRIDE'S ELEGANT LADY, a fine mare by PRIDE OF
PANOLA. The resulting colt showed promise beginning early
in his career by tying reserve in the Two-Year-Old Class of the
Breeders' Futurity with Bud Seaton in the saddle. |
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The career of
ANOTHER MASTERPIECE actually got started when Henry Moore of
Monroe, Ohio purchased this horse from Billy Hale of Gallatin,
Tennessee and placed him in training in Monroe with Jay Cobb.
Jay did an outstanding job of developing this big horse's talent
without killing him as a young horse and brought him to a peak by
winning the Junior World Grand Championship in 1972.
The following year Jay brought the horse back in open competition
and, as pointed out above, won the Aged Stallion Class and tied
third in the Grand Championship. |
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Just after the 1973
Celebration, ANOTHER MASTERPIECE was moved to the Ronnie Spears
Stables. After a short getting acquainted period, Ronnie took
his horse on a tough circuit of horse shows designed to have him ready
for the challenge of the 1974 Celebration. Ronnie and his horse began
by winning the Aged Stallion Class at the Montgomery Southern
Championship to close the 1973 show season. They began 1974 with
a bang by winning the Championship at the Walking Horse Trainers
National Show and coming back in midseason to win the Stallion Class
at the Spring Celebration Fun Show. Their final tune-up for the
Celebration was at a great one-night horse show in Belfast where they
won another outstanding victory. |
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In his
victorious year, ANOTHER MASTERPIECE completely dominated his
division winning the Aged Stallion Class and the Grand
Championship with first place ties on all three judges' cards in
both classes.
The triumph of ANOTHER MASTERPIECE in the Grand Championship of
the National Celebration culminated a determined effort to win
this biggest of all championships. ANOTHER MASTERPIECE was
competing for the second year in aged competition, and the year
previous had won one of two Aged Stallion Preliminary Classes and
tied third in the Grand Championship. |
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Shortly after his
two outstanding wins at the Celebration, it was announced that ANOTHER
MASTERPIECE would stand at public service at the S. W. Beech and Sons
Stables, Belfast, Tennessee. He is buried there. |
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