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Horses are a popular subject for films. Two film festi-vals – all about horses – take place this year: one in Mis-soula, Montana and the other in new york city.

The eQuus international Film Festival® returned toMissoula, Montana september 18, 2015. The firsteQuus international Film Festival® was held in Mon-tana in 2011, billed as “the first all-equine internationalfilm festival and conference.” The mission of the film fes-tival is “education and understanding to enhance theequine/human bond and to improve the welfare of equinesthrough excellence in film, television, and other media.”

This year, the film unbranded won the Best of Festivalaward. a special award for the most inspiring portrayalof the equine-human bond went to Horses That Heal.Both these films also tied for first in the Best documen-tary Feature category. unbranded also won Best story-line.

Best narrative short film winner was The equestrian,producer sybil Mair. This film, a short length featureabout a young dressage rider and his relationship with hisstallion, also won the Best cinematography award.

winners of the Best documentary short (tie) were:emma Massingale – no reins, no rules, no limits anduntrammeled, produced by usda Forest service. Thisfilm also won the Best wilderness Film category and BestPortrayal of youth, equines & wilderness award.

The Best Tv Program winner was wild about Barns,produced by Pamela kettle, which also won the Meritaward for creative Presentation. Best Tv series winner

was rock star vet.Best Portrayal of the wild Horse issue was running

wild: The life of dayton o. Hyde, produced by suzanneMitchell, a documentary that chronicles a cowboy’s tri-umph in his quest to protect wild horses and the americanwest. This film also won the equine Hero award, Bestediting, Best sound, the Merit award for storyline, andthe Merit award for cinematography.

There were several winners in the equine Heroines andHeroes in a Film category. equine Heroine: Margaret“gigi” Mcintosh and Fork in the road. equine Hero:rudy shebala and Horse Tribe.

dakota 38 won the Best native american Film Pres-entation.

The Best conservation Message award went to: TheMan From coxs river, amy scully executive producer.

of gods & kings: The skyros Horse won Best narra-tion, Best Music score, and Best Historical Presentation.

The Most compelling Message award went to TheFreedom of the Heart: The Foal story, producer Jolandaellenberger.

view trailers of the films at: http://equusinternational-filmfestival.com/trailers/

The 2015 festival poster, “cimarron, a Peace offer-ing,” was created by artist shari Montana. drawing,painting, and a passion for horses are her lifelong inter-ests. Her artistry influenced by horses manifests in ce-ramic sculpture, encaustic painting and mixed mediums.she is founder of river Pines Horse sanctuary, a perma-nent home for hard-to-place horses, and of Mon-tanaQuest, where she collaborates with horses to teachsocial and emotional intelligence skills, leadership, per-sonal development and creativity. she also offers natureimmersion workshops for children and adults. Find moreinformation at: www.riverpinesfarm.org and athttp://www.montanaquest.com/

The equus Film Festival in new york city runs Fri-day and saturday, november 20-21, 2015 at the villageeast cinema on second avenue at 12th street. Foundedin 2013, this festival is oriented around equestrian themedcontent from all over the world, empowering storytellersto show the rich history and diverse tapestry of horses inhuman culture through equestrian content. There will befeature films, documentaries, shorts, music videos, com-mercials, training educational materials, art and literary.The festival will present more than 100 films from aroundthe world and has 28 winnie award categories, includingequestrian art Film, commercial, director, documen-tary, international, Music video, series, People’s choiceand Best of Festival. The li'l Herc ™ kids Fest, spon-sored by suzanne kopp-Moskow, offers free saturdaymorning family films and fun, plus sunday tours of theclinton Park carriage Horses stable.

organizer and founder lisa diersen announced thateQuus Film Festival will host the world Premier of Thecaravan Film directed by Margot McMaster and pho-tographed by douglas Munor of HdTv Productions, inc.of calgary, canada, based on the true story of a 2,500-mile drive across america. also joining more than 100horse-themed screenings is the critically acclaimed un-branded, chronicling the real-life Mexico to canada trekby a handful of horsemen and the mustangs they chooseas partners.

a new addition to the 2015 equus Film Festival is theliterary corner, where the visitors can visit with authorsand purchase some of the most interesting equestrianreading available.

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TN River RunArticle & photos by Nancy Brannon

downtown savannah, Tennessee wasofficially darryl worley territory on octo-ber 3, 2015, as the 14th annual Tennesseeriver run concert got underway mid-sat-urday afternoon. very chilly temperaturesand a light drizzle of rain made conditionsless than ideal for the outdoor, Main streetevent, but audience members bundled upin coats and blankets to hear traditionalcountry music. Two stages kept the musicflowing and performers inspired audiencemembers to warm up with a “little 2-step”and keeping the rhythm going.

The concert is the culmination of aweekend full of activities to raise funds forthe daryl worley Foundation in its fightagainst cancer. additional fund-raisingevents included: a golf tournament, a boatpoker run, a 5k run, a motorcycle pokerrun, and a songwriters in the round galadinner event.

as he introduced each act, worley em-phasized the importance his foundation’sfight against cancer. worley’s Foundationwas established in 2002 and raised 1.4million dollars to establish a cancer treat-ment center in savannah, Tn. His founda-tion has a long list of other charities thatthe many events benefit across the Mid-south. Find out more at: darrylworley-foundation.org

worley’s cousin carol ann williamsstarted the performance, playing “Taps”on her bugle to remember all the veterans.

The first guest artist was alysongreene, whom worley introduced as a ris-ing young talent. “she plays guitar betterthan i do,” he said. “i’m gonna ask her forsome lessons.” she performed severalsongs she had written, and a few fromother well known country artists. Her ren-dition of their tunes was as good as or bet-ter than the originals. Find more about herat: www.alysongreenellc.com

Performing for worley’s event wasextra special for wade Hayes. Hayes wasdiagnosed with stage iv colon cancer in2011, and in 2012 he was given a clean billof health. But the dreaded disease returnedin 2013. His second bout with cancer wasespecially tough, since the disease hadspread into his lymph nodes, and he wasonly given as 12% chance of survival. Butnow, he is cancer-free! “My doctor said itwas a miracle,” Hayes told the audience.“This is a big deal. i want you to go liveyour life,” was Hayes’ doctor’s advice,which became the inspiration for hisnewest album and main song of the night:“go live your life.” Hayes said, “i’m awalking miracle—not only am i alive, buti’m doing extremely well…Hope… is oneof the biggest things you need, and mygoal is to give someone else hope.” Findmore about him at: www.wadehayes.com

next on the agenda was the Bryan Mof-fitt band, which includes scott Bumpus,owner of the Bumpus Harley davidsondealerships, on acoustic guitar; Brian wal-

lace on bass; austin leslie on electric gui-tar; Justin Plunk on fiddle; Mike Black-wood on drums; and, of course, BryanMoffitt, vocals and guitar. scott Bumpuswas one of the biggest sponsors for theevent.

worley introduced his next guest ascountry music’s “sexiest performer. if mywife says she is, i can say she is, too,”worley explained. “Her father [georgeMorgan] was a grand ole opry star for 25years, and she grew up in the wings of theopry stage.” as her slam Band membersbegan to play, the vocals from “it’s aHeartache” came from off stage. soon, torousing applause, lorrie Morgan came on-stage singing and delighting the crowd.named after the “coal miner’s daughter,”loretta lynn Morgan was a child of theopry, and she sang onstage with her fatheras one of the youngest performers on thefamous ryman stage. Morgan says she’srecently been touring with Pam Tillis onthe “grits and glamour Tour,” and theyhave released the “dos divas” album. onelovely addition to her slam Band is herdaughter-in-law, ashlee Hewitt, who alsoperforms with her own group, Post Mon-roe – an all female trio comprised of He-witt, whitney duncan, and shelbyMcleod.

other river run performers includedkirstie lovelady, Brassfield aly and deadHorse. The main headliner of the evening,in addition to darryl worley, was Tracylawrence.

Find more information about the Ten-nessee river run at: tnriverrun.org or onfacebook at Tennessee river run.

Horse Connections. The worleys atone time had five walking horses. nowthey are down to “our last one,” said kim-berly worley, darryl’s wife who is the“horse person” in the family. He is a spot-ted walking Horse – The commissioner –whom kimberly used to show. “Mish”won amateur novice world championTrail Pleasure and 11 & under Traditionalworld grand champion Trail Pleasure,she said. dickie gardner was her trainer,who has won trainer of the year ten timesand will be going into the hall of fame.

kimberly has been riding her wholelife; “horses are to me what music is todarryl,” she said. “darryl grew up onhorses, but in his experience, horses wereused for work. i rode horses for pleasure.Just to smell a horse makes me feel good;it balances me.”

The worley’s daughter savannah, age7, also rides Mish. “Horses choose you,”kimberly continued. “Mish chose darryland savannah. darryl and Mish have aspecial relationship. He’s an amazinghorse, and a big one, standing at 16h.since darryl is 6’6” he needs a big horse.darryl rode Mish on trail rides and savan-nah rode him in lead line classes. savan-nah has the horse bug, too. we’ve hadMish for about four years, but afterThanksgiving he will be going back to hisoriginal owner, who has a 10-year-old sonto ride him.”

Darryl Worley Carol ann played Taps on her bugle

alyson Greene Wade Hayes

Lorrie Morgan ashlee Hewitt


The DairyGood CookbookBook Review by Nancy Brannon, Ph.D

we spend a great deal of time andmoney providing quality feed and foragesfor our horses. This month we turn, again,to what makes quality “feed and forage”for the human caretakers of horses. espe-cially for the holiday feasting months, no-vember and december, The Dairy Good

Cookbook: Everyday Comfort Food from

America’s Dairy Farm Families is a greatplace to find delicious and nutritious mealideas.

look at the food on your plate. do youknow where it’s been? The “farm to table”and community supported agriculturemovements raise people’s awareness ofwhere their food comes from, how it’s pro-duced, and provides support for farmers,while the “local food” movement empha-sizes eating food produced by local grow-ers – because the fresher the better tastingand the better for you. This book helps uslearn more about the people – and thecows – who provide food to us every day.

This book offers a glimpse of life on adairy farm and features particular breedsof dairy cows and some outstanding mem-bers of each breed. Most folks know about

Holsteins, the gentle black and white cowsthat dominate the dairy industry. learnabout Jersey cows, the prettiest dairycows: soft brown cows with big dark eyesand white muzzles. They were first im-ported to the u.s. from the British isle ofJersey in the 1850s. Brown swiss ranksecond in milk production, averagingabout 2,200 gallons of milk a year percow. The beautiful mahogany coloring inirregular color patches is the distinguish-ing physical feature of ayrshires. Theyhail from county ayr in scotland, comingto the u.s. in the 1820s. guernseys areknown for their yellow-gold color milk,which results from a diet that is high inbeta-carotene. They’re known as the“cheese breed.” There are Milking short-horns, who are cousins of Beef short-horns.

The Dairy Good Cookbook also profilesseveral dairy farm families around the na-tion who make milk, cheese, butter, yo-gurt, and other favorite dairy foods.individual farmers share their stories be-hind the recipes and give us a better un-derstanding of america’s most commoncow breeds. These farm families have spe-cial relationships with their cows, who aresometimes treated as almost family, pluswe get a glimpse into the life of a moderndairy farm. no vacation time here! Mostof the families are multi-generation dairyfarmers and have this type of farm life “intheir blood,” they say.

The chapters and recipes are organizedto represent a typical day on a farm – fromsunrise Breakfast recipes to after-dinnerdesserts with after chores snacks in be-tween. There are several breakfast smooth-ies (like frosty pineapple orange) andhearty combos, like pepper and eggbrunch bake. For lunch, try Pearline’ssalmon stew or, after Thanksgiving,

Turkey Burritos with cheddar or rita’seasy Quiche. My favorite is currychicken salad. There are some delicioussalads in this section, too. For an after-chores snack try the vanilla iced Mochac-cino, and for the december holidays,there’s vanilla eggnog. use left-overturkey dinner in the artichoke-studdedTurkey-vegetable casserole. There’sgranny’s chicken Pie and apricot-dijonPork chops with Potato Pancakes andHerbed sour cream. Have you ever hadroasted sweet Potato empanadas, or Beetand Butter lettuce salad with sourcream-Mustard dressing? what’s fordessert? Baked apples with cinnamon yo-gurt Topping, lemon-Berry crepes, orsweet Potato cheesecake. an alternativeto Boston cream Pie is Pear vanilla creamcake with chocolate glaze. There areplenty more chocolate recipes. Hungryyet? There is even a recipe for Tail wag-gin’ dog Biscuits to feed your favorite ca-nine.

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Authors atAmes by Nancy Brannon

This year’s ames Heritage Festivalhosted several authors for books sales andsignings, in addition to the many craftsartists who displayed their talents.

Randy bishop brought civil war-themed books to the ames Heritage Festi-val, october 10, 2015. He is an avidscholar of the civil war and an advocatefor preservation and restoration of historicbattlefields. He has authored several bookson the subject, including Tennessee’s Civil

War Battlefields, Civil War Generals of

Tennessee, Kentucky’s Civil War Battle-

fields, The Tennessee Brigade, and Mis-

sissippi’s Civil War Battlefields.Bishop is a history teacher at Middle-

ton High school and adjunct faculty atJackson state community college.

Bishop is also involved with severalpreservation groups, including civil warPreservation Trust, Tennessee civil warPreservation association, and Parker'scrossroads Battlefield association.

author Margaret Tutor was at theames Heritage Festival signing her his-torical novel, Just Passing Through. Thebook is about the sharecropping wardFamily, who traveled from cotton field tocotton field, living in their covered wagon.in dover, arkansas in 1926, they meet

Mrs. cartwright and her children, who areleft to fend for themselves as Mr.cartwright takes an extended trip to neworleans. The ward family takes thecartwrights under their wing, and when hereturns from new orleans, Mr. cartwrightis angered to find his family thriving with-out him. walter cartwright is a cruel-hearted man, passing along his harsh wayof life to his sons robert and clanton.There is hope that their father’s abandon-ment and the kindness of the wards willhelp them see the decent and good side ofthe world. Tutor offers a tale of changedlives and healed hearts in her novel, JustPassing Through.

Margaret Tutor was born in Morrilton,arkansas, but now lives in olive Branch,Mississippi. The influence for characters

in her book, Margaret knew will andParthina ward when she was growing upin arkansas. The couple and their ten chil-dren lived in their covered wagon, movingfrom cotton field to cotton field as share-croppers. The children never stayed in oneplace long enough to attend school regu-larly, but most did manage a third gradeeducation.

Tutor’s book is dedicated to “grandpaward with his quick wit; grandma wardwith her cast-iron skillets; her motherMary Jane ward robinson, who had botha quick wit and good aim;” and to otherfamily members.

read Margaret Tutor’s blog and findmore about her books at: http://margaret-tutor.wix.com/margaret-tutor

Mississippi native and author Ramona

bridges was at the ames Heritage Festi-val signing her books – a trilogy aboutlove, hardship, faith and hope. Her firstbook, Sweet By and By, was published in

2010, with a second edition published in2014. The main character, addie coulter,faces a series of tragedies and losses: anabusive, drunk husband; an invalid motherin continuous failing health; and a sonbanished from home. when she thinks lifecan’t get any words, she is forced to leavethe only home she’s ever known and travelwith her daughter to live with her brotherand sister-in-law. it is a tale woven withthreads of unfailing love, deceit, and for-giveness in her debut novel.

Her second novel, Standing on the

Promises, published in 2012, continues thestory of addie, now coulter-graham. setin the southern landscape, addie faces adevastating natural disaster. other charac-ters include a beautiful young mulatto wholongs for acceptance and to find her placein the world. a notorious outlaw resur-faces. a mentally disturbed child ishaunted by the tragic death of her mother.But addie finds strength in her husbandand steadfast faith in a loving god.

in the third novel in the trilogy, An Un-

clouded Day, published in 2013, Bridgescontinues the saga of four generations ofthe warren-coulter-graham family. addiediscovers a journal written during the civilwar and learns the identity of her real fa-ther. amidst harsh economic times, thefamily draws closer, caring for and en-couraging each other, despite the strugglesof those around them.

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ColicBy Dr. Hannah Weimer

Question: we’vehad several horses colicat my barn recently.what causes this and isthere anything i can doto prevent my geldingfrom getting it?

answer: That’s a great question and something thatmost horse owners have dealt with at one time or an-other.To start, colic is a term used to describe any sort ofabdominal pain in horses. it is one of the most commonemergencies i see as an equine veterinarian, and anyonewho has been around a colicking horse can attest to thefact that even a mild case can be stressful on all involved.Though the exact reason why a horse colics is often un-determined, the common denominator is that the horsehas a large complex gi (gastrointestinal) tract that is sus-ceptible to a variety of issues.

since horses can’t tell us that their stomach hurts, oftenthe first sign they show is a reluctance to eat and a gen-eralized quiet or depressed manner, which may manifestas lying down for long periods of time. as their discom-fort escalates, they become increasingly irritated and mayshow signs such as pawing, circling their stall, getting up

and down frequently, and rolling excessively. during thisperiod, they often become tachycardic (increased heartrate) and tachypneic (increased respiratory rate) and maysweat markedly.

The mechanisms of a colic episode can range fromsimple gas colic, where excessive gas results in disten-sion of the bowel, which causes discomfort, to somethingmore complex like a twist in the large colon.

colic lesions fall into two broad categories, strangu-lating and non-strangulating. non-strangulating lesionsinclude the gas colic mentioned above as well as dis-placements of the large colon and impactions of the gitract. since the horse’s colon is minimally adhered to thebody wall, it can become displaced into either the rightor left abdomen where it may become entrapped, dis-rupting the normal flow of the digestive process.

impactions of the gi tract also fall into the non-stran-gulating category, and while they most commonly occurin the pelvic flexure of the large colon, stomach, small in-

testinal and even cecal impactions can also occur. whileall of these non-obstructive disorders can be painful andeven life threatening, they do not generally impede theblood flow to the intestines like strangulating lesions.

strangulating lesions include twists or torsions of boththe large and small intestine, along with other disordersthat compromise the blood flow to the bowel. These le-sions tend to be dramatically more painful than non-stran-gulating lesions; to cause the horse to becomesystemically ill much faster; and all require immediatesurgery for a positive outcome, as the compromised bloodflow can rapidly lead to necrosis and death of the affectedsegments of bowel.

determining the nature and seriousness of a colicepisode is where veterinarians come in. a thorough phys-ical exam is essential to establish how serious the coliccondition the horse is. Parameters such as heart rate, res-piratory rate, and temperature, as well as auscultating gutsounds and observing mucus membrane color, are in-valuable in assessing their health status. other proceduressuch as nasogastric intubation and rectal exams also pro-vide baseline information, including whether a gastricoutflow problem is present and if abnormalities such aslarge colon impactions or displacements, excessive gasdistension, ordilated small intestine are present.

Treatments like intravenous fluids and anti-inflamma-tory and pain relieving medications may be administeredat any time during the work up. depending on the resultsof these initial procedures and your horse’s behavior, itmay be recommended that he be referred into a clinicalsetting where further diagnostics, such as blood work, ab-dominal ultrasonography, or an abdominocentesis can beperformed. unfortunately, even with every diagnostic testavailable, we are unable to definitively diagnose most le-

Horse’s Digestive Tract

www.midsouthhorsereview.com November, 2015 • Mid-South Horse Review 9.sions without physically entering the ab-domen. so your horse’s response to treat-ment and overall pain level are thestrongest indicators as to whether surgicalintervention is needed.

Though there is no magic remedy thatprevents all colic, there are certain man-agement strategies that have been shownto reduce the incidence of certain types ofcolic. especially as the winter months ap-proach, impaction colics become a biggerconcern, because as the temperature drops,horses tend to drink less water and thus be-come mildly dehydrated. This, coupledwith increased reliance of dry forages toround out diets as pasture grasses dimin-ish, leads to an overall drying out of theintestinal contents, increasing the chancesof an obstruction forming. Managementstrategies such as administering elec-trolytes and making warm water availableat all times during the winter will encour-age drinking and help to prevent im-pactions.

stall confinement has also been linkedto large colon impactions, so ensuring ad-equate turnout is essential, as is maintain-ing proper dental health so that your horseis able to chew effectively.

while proper management pays divi-dends, the most important factors in safe-guarding your horse are to be observant,recognize when something is wrong, andto involve your veterinarian early on toprevent a small problem from becoming alarger one in the future.

Full CircleEquine ClientAppreciationArticle & photos by Nancy Brannon

it was a perfect fall evening for a party,with plenty of delicious food and bever-ages, good folks, and soulful acousticmusic performed by Blake ryan and hiswife Brandy. The second annual clientappreciation Party, hosted by kakkiwright and the staff at Full circle equineservices on october 10, 2015, was a hit allaround. new veterinarians at Full circle,drs. Hannah weimer and allison Forbes,are already getting well known around thearea, and this gave them another chance tovisit more with mid-south horse people.

about 125 people rsvP’d to attendand enjoy caterer/ party planner sallyBaker’s culinary treats. she’s known for

her tasty bread pudding – the dessert high-light of the evening. But if that wasn’tenough, there was a table full of ingredi-ents for making “smores” and two fire pitsfor toasting them. Plus, there was free icecream from the invisible Fence ice creamtruck. People did not go home hungry!

when horse people get together, there’stalk about everyone’s equines, how they’refaring, and the latest horse show and barnnews. For the children, the trampoline wastheir fun favorite until it got too dark tojump. and, of course, there are alwayshorses to be petted in the Full circle barn.

no one went away empty-handed ei-ther. There were buckets for each guestfilled with samples and information aboutequine veterinary products – plus a pack-age of dog treats. There was a drawing forseveral special gifts, too, including giftcertificates from Frontier ranch supplyand cowboy corner, a gift bucket of horseitems from Halls Feed and seed, leg wrapsfrom ceva, and a First aid kit from Fullcircle equine.

(above) Musicians blake and brandy

Ryan serenaded party goers. (below) Dr.

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Hall’s Feed &Seed CustomerAppreciation Day

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“we had a very good day,” said owner Beverly Thomp-son. “everyone got door prizes and we had plenty of hotdogs and refresh-ments. Peopledidn’t have to bepresent to win, soi’m still callingpeople to notifythem of theirprizes.”

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Should You De-worm After theFirst Frost?From Merial

By now, many horse owners have likely heard that ro-tational deworming is outdated. More than half of horseowners are working with veterinarians to use fecal eggcounts (Fec)1 to determine customized dewormingschedules. as more horse owners turn away from rota-tional deworming, new questions arise around timing.There are two main parasites – bots and tapeworms – thatare targets for fall or winter timing.2

bots

Bots are the larvae of the botfly. since these flies arecommon in barns and pastures where horses live, horsescould become infested with bots, and often horse ownerswill recognize the botfly eggs on their horse’s hair.3 de-worming with ivermectin yearly, during late fall or earlywinter, is recommended as a cleanout treatment for bots,which will help decrease transmission in the next sea-son.2

Tapeworms

adult tapeworms are fairly common and live in the in-testine of the horse;3 however, they are difficult to diag-nose. Horse owners will rarely see tapeworm segments inmanure, unlike some other parasites, and there is no re-liable diagnostic test for active tapeworm infection.4

But because tapeworms have potential to cause dis-ease like colic, a properly timed tapeworm treatment is

beneficial.2 inmost u.s. areas,deworming withpraziquantel incombination withivermectin can begiven in late fall orwinter.2 coldweather means the

end of tapeworm transmission, and that timing for treat-ment helps diminish additional transmission the follow-ing grazing season.2 no generic ivermectins offertapeworm control.

“Parasite control is an important part of any horsehealth program,” says Hoyt cheramie, dvM, Ms,dacvs, manager, Merial large animal veterinary serv-ices. “choosing the right deworming product and theright timing for it is key.”

ultimately, each farm should develop its own programtailored to the specific needs of the farm and each ani-mal, with veterinary guidance. There is no such thing asa “one size fits all program.”2

Footnotes:1american Horse Publications. 2015 aHP equine in-

dustry survey. July 2015.2aaeP Parasite control guidelines 2013, accessed

June 1, 2015. http://www.aaep.org/custdocs/Parasite-controlguidelinesFinal.pdf

3internal Parasites in Horses. american veterinaryMedical association. september 2010.

4reinemeyer c, nielsen M, Mcarthur M. Parasitecontrol as a profit center. equiManagement. 2010; 26.


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foxhuntingA FoxhuntingPrimerBy Tommy Brannon, MFH, Oak Grove

Hunt Club

Fox hunting in the Mid-south is one ofthose horse sports that is both steeped intradition and 21st century modern. it is theprecursor of hunter/jumper horse showsand steeplechasing, and has ties to dres-sage and eventing. it also has similaritiesto bird dog field trails.

Many competent riders with greathorses in these sports have never actuallybeen on a live foxhunt, but there is plentyof opportunity with several fox huntingclubs located in the mid-south. There are157 hunts in the usa and canada affili-ated with The Masters of Fox Hounds as-sociation (MFHa), as well as manyunaffiliated packs. in the Mid-south thereare seven in Tennessee, two in Mississippi,three in alabama, four in kentucky, fourin georgia, and one in arkansas. severalof these hunts have hunting territory in ad-joining states as well. Most hunts welcomeguests and make allowances for firsttimers in regard to riding discipline (west-

ern, field trialing, etc.) and traditional at-tire. one does not have to jump to foxhunt, but you do need to be a competentrider on a fit horse.

The term fox hunting is really a mis-nomer in the 21st century mid-south. itshould more properly be called “coyotechasing.” The proliferation of coyotes hasreduced both the red and gray fox popula-tion, although both are making a come-back. The coyote is not native to thesoutheast u.s. and was not even here be-fore the middle of the 20th century. Theycan now be found throughout north amer-ica, not only living in the countryside, butalso cities and suburbs. coyotes are op-portunistic pack hunters, filling the same

ecological niche as foxes: eating small an-imals and birds, but also carrion, somefarm animals and pets – and they prey onthe foxes. on any given day fox houndscould run red or gray foxes, coyote, bobcat and, in some territories, wild pigs, alldepending on what the hounds find. killsare rare and with many hunt clubs, nonex-istent. The quarry is wild in its own hometerritory; firearms are not used; and thereis never a released captive fox to bechased. a drag hunt is one in which ahuman drags the scent of the fox on theground over hill and dale. after the scent islaid, the hounds seek out and follow thatscent. To a foxhound, it’s all about scent!

The hounds are raised, trained and

hunted by the Huntsman, who is some-times also the Master of the hunt. Foxhounds come in several breeds and, likeother dogs, each breed has its own charac-teristics. The MFHa maintains the stud-book for registered hounds, but unlike theamerican kennel club (akc), houndsare not registered until they are enteredinto the pack to hunt. Most hunt clubsmaintain at least 25 hounds, but some haveas many as 65 or 70. Hounds are countedin couples, so 12 ½ couple is 25 hounds.The most common foxhound breeds in themid-south are: english, american, Penn-Marydel, and crossbred, sometimesknown as Hardaway Hounds. Fox houndsare usually shy with sweet dispositionsand when they retire, they make great pets.

Tradition is the best way to describe thefox hunter’s style. Formal fox hunting is aformal affair with tall boots, breeches,stock tie, vest, and frock coat. staff andMasters usually wear red (scarlet) or greencoats, depending on the hunt club and allother members wear black Melton coats.as the foxhunting season starts in the falland continues through the winter, formalcoats are heavy wool for warmth. all rid-ers these days wear helmets for safety.ratcacher, which is informal attire, substi-tutes the red and black coats for tweedsand sometimes a necktie for the stock.clothing allowances will sometimes be


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made by the masters for warm, rainy, orvery cold days, and as previously stated,particularly for first timers of other horsedisciplines. Horses must be well groomedand tack is clean and well-maintained.

another tradition in fox hunting is theopening Meet and Blessing of theHounds, which is the first hunt of the for-mal season. This harkens back to the mid-dle ages when almost everything had to beblessed by the church. a priest or minis-ter, often wearing vestments, prays andblesses the hounds, horses, people, andquarry and asks for a safe hunt. The ridersare given st. Hubert’s medals to weararound their necks. st. Hubert was a 7thcentury Bishop and is the patron saint ofhunters. opening Meet is also a big partywith lots of food and drink after the hunt,and, as with other hunters and fishermen,everyone gets to brag about the day’ssport. Fox hunters are very enthusiasticabout their sport and love to share withothers how much fun it is.

Fox hunting is a family sport with chil-dren as young as six participating. Horse-back riding for some hunters is the mainreason for participating. some hunt to ride,while others ride to hunt.

To prevent riders from interfering withthe hounds and the huntsman, everyonerides together in the “Field,” led by theField Master. This is similar to “thegallery” in bird dog field trialing. de-pending on the hunt club and the territory,there may be more than one Field, usually

divided into jumping and non-jumpingFields. some territories do not have jumpsat all, and quite often there is an optionalgate. Jumps consist of coups built over thewire, or post and rail jumps. riders takethe jumps one at a time. The terrain is nat-ural and can be hilly or flat, rocky, muddy,grassland or woods. where you go is alldependent on the quarry and hounds! Thepace could be a walk, a trot, canter, or flatout gallop. There are also times when youstop, look, and listen for the hounds.

The following is a list of the hunts inthe mid-south. For contact informationvisit the Masters of Fox Hounds associa-tion at: www.MFHa.org

alabama: Full cry Hounds, Hardaway-whitworth Hounds, MoorlandHunt

arkansas: Misty river Houndskentucky: carmargo Hunt, iroquois

Hunt, long run Hounds, woodfordHounds

georgia: Bear creek Hounds, BelleMeade Hunt, Midland Fox Hounds,shakerag Hounds

Mississippi: chula Homa HuntTennessee: cedar knob Hounds, cum-

berland Mountain Hounds, HillsboroHounds, longreen Foxhounds, MellsFoxhounds, oak grove Hunt club, andTennessee valley Hunt.

In Memoriam:

Bruce P’Poolex-MFH HillsboroHounds

The fox hunting and equine world lost agreat sportsman and one of its most en-thusiastic supporters with the passing ofdr. david (Bruce) P’Pool, ex-MFH ofHillsboro Hounds, on october 5, 2015.Bruce was Jt. Master of Hillsboro Houndsfrom 1990 to 2011. He was a fine horse-man, generous with his time, his horses,and his gifts. His enthusiasm for fox hunt-ing was contagious and his eyes wouldlight up and sparkle when he talked abouta particular day of sport.

Bruce was born May 28, 1933 innashville, Tennessee where he practicedmedicine and lived most of his life. Hewas a graduate of vanderbilt universityand The university of Tennessee Medicalschool. He was also a us army veteran.

Bruce’s love for horses and foxhuntingcarried over to young riders, as he becamea board member of Middle TennesseePony club and was involved with the sad-dle up! therapeutic riding program.

He was a member first Presbyterianchurch of nashville, the exchange clubof nashville, and alumni council of Mc-callie school, as well as board a memberfor Friends of warner Parks.

He is survived by his wife, charlottegibson P'Pool (shocky) and his twodaughters, elizabeth P'Pool coble (les)and Martha P'Pool shy (robert), and fivegrandchildren: olivia reid coble, stellaclaire coble, leslie daviss coble, Jr.,charlotte Marie shy and genevieve eliz-abeth shy.

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Mells OpeningMeet

The Mells Foxhounds held their 51stopening Meet on a rainy saturday, octo-ber 24, 2015 at the circle g ranch nearcampbellville, Tennessee. There were 25riders in the Field plus a staff of five.Hounds were hunted by Jt. Master karenkressenberg; also mounted that day wereJt. Masters stasia Bachrach and Bill Hag-gard.

in spite of the “fine irish day,” i.e. soak-ing wet weather, there was enough scentfor pack to have a good run on a coyote.There were 8 ½ couple of hounds cast andhounds found quickly, with a sharp runcommencing about ten minutes after-wards. The coyote took the pack west andthen circled back.

The Mells hunt country is quit hilly andmore than one rider had an involuntarydismount. There were no serious injuries,nothing that a flask wouldn’t handle. andafter the hunt, all returned to circle granch to fill their stomachs and relatetheir day’s adventure.

(above and below left) Huntsman karen kressenberg, MFH hunts the Mells

Hounds. (below right) The Mells Masters: karen, Stasia, and bill.


TennesseeValley HuntOpeningMeet

Tennessee valley Hunt held its 27thopening Meet and Blessing of the Houndsat their Big valley Meet fixture ingreenville, Tennessee on saturday octo-ber 17, 2015. after the Penn-Merydelhounds were blessed, Huntsman ryanJohnsey showed riders and spectators agreat day of sport, along with all of thepomp that goes with opening Meet. everyhorse was groomed to a “spit shine” andbraided, with the riders dressed in theirbest formal livery. There were Tally Howagons available where the spectatorscould ride to observe the action.

The Hunt Breakfast was served inBlackberry ridge Farm’s stud Barn,owned by hunt patrons dr. Tracy dobbsand his wife debbie. The elegant spreadseated some 100 people at the long tabledown the aisle way.

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By Joanna Wilburn, with photos by Nancy Brannon

nashoba carriage classic celebrated its 16th annualshow at the germantown charity Horse show grounds,germantown, Tn, on october 23-25, 2015. Four-timenational champion and international driver Muffyseaton was the judge and ed young, a foxhunter turnedworld-class driving expert, was the Technical delegate.

The show began at noon on Friday with dressage andcones for the arena driving Trial (adT), which is a shortform of three day eventing in the carriage world calledcombined driving event (cde). drivers returned on Fri-day “pizza night” for the obstacle driving portion of theadT. Two obstacles were set up at each end of the arenafor the horses and ponies to speed through in a prescribedorder. They were judged on time and accuracy, andawards were given to the adT participants with the bestcombined score in all three phases.

saturday was the Pleasure show with ring classes forsingle Pony, single Horse, Multiples, vses, and draftdivisions in turn-out, reinsmanship, and working classes.on saturday evening were some nashoba favorites: thecarriage dog class, the carriage kids class, and a mar-velous costume class. Participants enjoyed a deliciousdinner on the show grounds afterwards.

in spite of the steady rain, a dozen drivers turned outfor the sunday Magnolia drive, which is a cross countrypleasure drive around the park areas of germantown.

This year’s nashoba carriage classic had one of the

largest Junior divisions of any driving show in the us.This is quite a feat for a local, annual show as there aremonthly shows in other areas that do not have this type ofJunior participation. nashoba is so proud of their juniordrivers!

Maria roberts, age 16, showed her pony rollingwoodscookie Time in several classes. Maria and “cookie” wonthe Junior High Point award in the pleasure show in onlytheir second year of driving. cookie was Maria’s hunterpony and then moved to driving pony last year whenMaria aged out the small pony division. Thus, there is asecond career for the pony that is no longer being shownas a riding pony.

Mary Frances Mangum, age 13, showed simon, ownedby norma roddy, and her sister, charlotte Mangum, age11 – the youngest driver – showed Macarena (aka Macki),owed by lisa seaburg. Both simon and Macki got driv-ing training this spring from Joanna wilburn, and theMangum sisters did an excellent job in debuting both attheir very first show. not only were these young driversresponsible for making sure the horses had an enjoyableand educational first show, they had to do it with the own-ers sitting in the stands watching them. Talk about pres-sure!

annabel cheney, age 15, drove Flying diamond Twistand Trot (aka Twister) owed by wanda chancellor.Twister has only missed one show since the nashoba car-riage classic started 16 years ago. showing a “tried andtrue” show pony is full of pressure, especially since every-one knows Twister and his capabilities. annabel had onlydriven four times prior the show, but she received her fairshare of good ribbons. annabel also received the $100bonus prize in the costume class.

natalie Hanisco, age 12, drove spur run chantillylace (aka Tilly), also owned by lisa seaburg. They hadbeen driving some this summer, but really became a“pair” when they spent a week in lexington, ky at thenational driving convention, driving the trails and ob-stacles used in the 2010 world equestrian Four in Handchampionship. That experience sealed their driving rela-tionship! natalie and Tilly were reserve champions inthe Junior division.

Julia Hunsberger, age16, drove Fifi, a Miniature Horseowned by ann kimberlin. Julia has done all of the driv-

ing training on Fifi (including some amusing tricks). Fifihad a bit of colic during a class; Julia was aware of Fifi’sproblem and asked to be excused. Joanna wilburn al-lowed her to drive rollingwoods Back in Black for thenext class. “we pulled him from the stall and she went inwith no warm up and did an excellent job! with her atti-tude of responsibility for taking care of her pony and heraptitude of being able to take a different pony from stallto class, the Judge awarded her the very coveted sports-manship award donated by Driving Digest, a nationaldriving publication.

all of the transporting, prepping, and showing by theseJunior drivers was made possible by financial and familysupport from ann kimberlin, cecil and carla roberts,lisa seaburg, norma roddy, dennis and claudiaMangum, dvM, Tim and Mindy Hanisco, and rolling-woods Farm (ruth wilburn, dvM, Joanna wilburn andsally ross davis). with support like this, these Juniorshave a great start to their driving careers!

Highlights from the Pleasure Show:adult High Point: susan walker driving Miss MegJunior High Point: Maria roberts driving rolling-

woods cookie TimeJunior division: champion, Maria robertsreserve champion: natalie Hanisco driving spur run

chantilly lace single Horse division: champion, susan walker driv-

ing Miss Megreserve champion: rose Marie lawson driving Milosingle Pony division: champion, wanda chancellor

driving rollingwoods Movin on upreserve champion: ruth wilburn driving rolling-

woods all Mine concours de' elegance: susan walker and Miss Meg$100 costume class: annabel cheney driving Flying

diamond's Twist 'n Trot, owned by wanda chancellorDriving Digest good sportsman award: Julia Huns-

berger welsh Pony High Point award: Maria roberts and

rollingwoods cookie Timearena Driving Trial results:

Preliminary champion: kathleen Plock driving Herointermediate champion: kate Bushman driving Bliss

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Taylor Hanes drives Pink Panther in the Carriage

Dog Class

Jimmy Chancellor driving his pair Smokey and

Teddy in the Marathon on Friday night.

Winners of the Carriage kids Class: Wanda Chan-

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Weber Earns 12th USEF Natn’l 4-in-Hand Championship & Hermitage Classic CDE

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The kentucky classic is a 4-day combined driv-ing event, held October 2-5, 2015 at the kentucky

Horse Park, with preliminary, intermediate, and ad-vanced level divisions and featured the useF na-tional Four-in-Hand championship. Theadvanced-level competition was an Fei-level two-star (cai**) event.

Team weber delivered clean and decisive victoriesacross a spectrum of phases and weather conditions:first place (38.07) in dressage, first place (145.92) inMarathon, and first place (3.00) in cones.

read the complete article on the MsHr website.Find more information on the kentucky classic cdeat: kentuckyclassiccde.com

goshen, ky (october 19, 2015) current 12-timeu.s. national Four-in-Hand champion chesterweber doesn't just know how to drive horses – heknows how to pick them, too. starting their driving

careers on the team owned by Jane F. clark andchester weber, kwPn geldings danzer and Zeppe-lin let's w joined seasoned competitors Boris w andultra in a decisive victory lap at the sixth annual Her-

mitage Classic CDE on October 16-18, at the his-toric Hermitage Farm in goshen, kentucky.

Team weber's overall score in the Fei 2* HorseTeams division was 174.27, representing an advan-tageous 50-point spread ahead of closest contenderMisdee wrigley-Miller (233.52). Having won in thedressage phase (40.82) on opening day, weber optedto keep the same four-horse combination going intothe marathon. it proved to be a wise choice as weberpiloted the carriage through a marathon phase de-signed by multiple world championship combineddriving course designer Barry Hunter of greatBritain. (weber on Marathon course shown left)

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Article & photos by LaCresha Kolba

it was another sold out event as Brown-land Farms hosted two full weeks ofHunter/Jumper excitement in Franklin,Tennessee. The Brownland Farms autumncountry and autumn classic shows, oc-tober 14-18 & 21-25, had close to 500horses on the grounds, classes from Tues-day through sunday each week, everyarena was buzzing with competition orwarm ups. Horses and riders came in fromTennessee, new york, kentucky, georgiaand even Texas to participate. For somecompetitors this is not the last show oftheir season; some will be heading to ken-tucky, while others will be taking sometime off before the shows in ocala,Florida.

Martin klein of Martin klein Trainingstables has been riding for 43 years. orig-inally from vienna, austria, he came to theunited states for the horses and competi-tions. But it was the Brownland showsthat made him want to move to Tennessee.The beautiful setting and welcoming at-mosphere convinced him to relocate andset up his training facility here. averaging25 to 30 shows a year, and travelingthroughout the Midwest and into Florida,Tennessee serves as a good middle groundfor his and his clients’ competition season.

To prepare for the Brownland shows,Martin said that he and his clients train athome with their routine of riding six daysa week and jumping two days a week.with the Brownland Farms autumn showsproviding a two week spread of horseshows, the schedule makes it easy to pre-pare at the shows. Taking 11 clients withhim over the two weeks, Martin foundhimself quite busy. His riders range inskill level from beginner all the way up tothe grand Prix. it helps to spread out theattention he gives his clients with someshowing one week and others not showinguntil the following week. even thoughthis show comes late in the season, riders

still get the pre-show jitters and nerves.Martin says he tries to help them cope, butsometimes you just have to let them workit out and then do it. “it is all about, repe-tition, repetition, repetition,” he said.

when it comes to the horses who arebeing shown at this level of completion,Martin says, “The horse has to want to doit. They need to have an ‘eager to please’persona. They may not always be good atit, but it they have the heart – heart goes along way.” whether a Thoroughbred or awarmblood, there needs to be a desire inthat horse to want to compete at this levelof horse shows.

when Martin was asked what he likesabout coming to Brownland he gave a bigsmile, “you know when you come hereyou are going to get some great competi-tion. Thirty horses in your class verses fivemakes it worthwhile to come here, com-pared to somewhere else. This show is runreally well; they treat you like they wantyou to be here, which makes a big differ-ence. it is what made me want to live inTennessee.”

For more information on Martin kleinand his training program, you can find himon Facebook at Martin klein Training sta-bles. https://www.facebook.com/martin-kleintrainingstables/timeline

at the autumn country show, therewere 36 entries in the Brownland FarmHunter derby, with Molly Mcadow andinsignia the winners. The $25,000 Brown-land grand Prix attracted 21 riders, withMichael Burnett and iron taking the blueribbon and top prize.

at the autumn classic show, Tim Mad-drix riding capisce was winner of the$5,000 Hunter derby. Penny Brennan andsun Tzu won the $25,000 Brownlandgrand Prix. kali wright ryan and Jack inthe Box were champions in the short stir-rup division. sarah Trotz and doublestuff finished as reserve champions inshort stirrup. Madison Hill and rolling-

wood's over The Top won the 11 & underequitation over Fences, the wiHs PonyMedal, and finished as reserve championin the Medium Ponies division. nataliesharp and carnival made their debut inlarge Pony Hunter; they brought home afirst, two seconds, and a third in that divi-sion. They were fifth in the Pony Hunterclassic.

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dressage & eventingMTPC HorseTrialsBy LaCresha Kolba

Middle Tennessee Pony club held their63rd annual Horse Trials at Percy warnerPark in nashville, Tn october 10-11,2015. riders had great weather and excel-lent conditions to ride the hills and rollingterrain around the steeplechase grounds.with 160 horses competing, dressage andcross country ran on saturday, with sta-dium on sunday. There were three dres-sage arenas going at the same time. Thenriders had a break before their crosscountry runs.

learning to compete at an event such asthis, hosted by Middle Tennessee Ponyclub, takes a lot of time and dedicationsince one has to learn three disciplines.one of the premiere eventing trainers inMiddle Tennessee, Bill Hoos, talked abouthis experience with horses and his trainingmethods.

Bill Hoos has been competiting since hewas very young, and he got serious abouttraining horses by the time he was 25.growing up he rode jumpers, and now,with his wife lori, they train eventinghorses, Hunters, Jumpers, and dressage attheir wil-lo Blue Farm in Franklin, Tn.Bill got interested eventing when hestarted riding with a local pony club innew york. once he moved to Tennessee,it was a natural transition to continue

being involved with Pony club. Bill has a long list of equestrian accom-

plishments: 1996 uscTa intermediateHorse of the year and rider of the year forarea iii on lucien Prince; 1999 HighPoint arabian sport Horse associationinc. Trainer award for eventing/com-bined Training; 2002 First alternate forthe us equestrian Team winter trainingsessions, riding celtic cross; 2004 trainedwith the us equestrian Team for worldgames on celtic cross; he is also a useaicP level iv certified instructor.

with someone of this caliber of eques-trian experience and knowledge, we askedwhat it takes for the horse and rider toachieve their riding goals. what makes agood dressage horse? Bill told us it needsto start with the horse’s brain, and thenwith the movement. some breeds tend tobe better at dressage. For example, warm-bloods have been developed to performthe dressage movements well.

what about a cross country horse?“when it comes to a cross country horse,they absolutely have to jump well, havespeed, and be brave. no one factor outweights the other. if you are lacking one,you don’t want it,” Bill explained. con-sidering how quickly one has to sprintfrom jump to jump and take a variety ofdaunting jumps, bravery absolutely makessense in your equine companion.

For a three day eventing horse, Bill saidthe horse needs to have all the pieces. Thehorse has to do dressage well, be strongin jumping and speed. if not, you will be

left behind. cross country is now moretechnical. a course used to be 24 to 25fences spread out; now there are morecombinations.

Preparing to train or to compete, knowyour horse, and set up your training basedon the horse’s personality and ability andthe competition you are preparing for. adressage horse may need 30-40 minutesin warm up; a seasoned cross countryhorse can do some quick warm-up jumps,and then go out and train. if you find yourhorse is tight in the back, change yourwarm up. do what is best for the animaland you will get the optimum results.

in Hoos’ training program, Bill and hisstaff strive to keep their horses fresh bygiving them a day off, watching them care-fully, going out for a hack, and being con-sistent with their veterinary care.

if you are seeking an eventing trainer,Bill recommends you find someone withwhom you comfortable. He suggests youask around, research their experiences andtheir reputation. see if their program willbe the right fit for you. state your goalsand be definitive about where you want togo with your riding. Then factor in the costand make sure it is something affordablefor you. once you find a trainer that fitsyour needs, then dedicate yourself to thatcraft. if your goals change, communicatethat to the trainer so they can help keepyou on task.

For more information on Bill Hoos andhis training program visit the website:www.wil-lobluefarm.com.

(above) Cristen Cleveland & Just kid-

ding. (below) The water obstacle.

(above) Julia Jennings & One Under Par

(below) Sydney Doss & Road Less Traveled

From Meredith Tipton

river run eventing took a group to theMTPc horse trials and had several riderscome home with ribbons.

13-year-old sydney doss and roadless Traveled finished 6th in Jr. novice.16-year-old cassidy doss and Piano Bluesfinished 9th in Jr. novice.

12-year-old Julia Jennings and oneunder Par finished 5th in Jr. Beginnernovice. she also finished second at thedunnabeck Horse Trials in illinois in sep-tember. These placings have qualifiedJulia and one under Par for the americaneventing championships to be held nextsept. in north carolina.

11-year-old cristen cleaveland and Justkidding competed in Jr. Beginner novice.

caroline weathers and My alibi fin-ished 4th in Jr. starter.

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USDF Region 3 Dressage ChampionshipsBy Nancy Brannon, Peggy Gaboury, and others

The great american insurance group/united statesdressage Federation region 3 dressage championshipsand atlanta national Fall dressage were held in conyers,georgia, october 9-11, 2015 at the georgia internationalHorse Park. The 3-day event was hosted by georgia dres-sage & combined Training association. The judges in-cluded: d reihl-rodriguez(s) arvada, co; s. Michael(s) Portage, Mi; d. rodriguez (s) williamsburg, va; J.Hannon (s) golden, co; k. wysocki (s) elbert, co;s..Mandas (s) dayton, oH; s. Hotz (s) erie, co; s. geike(s) lebanon, cT; s. Peterson (s) Penn yan, ny; s. kol-stad (s) Florence, ky, lisa cox “r” nc. Jan Jacobson“r”nc, leslie o’neal, “r” .

The mid-south’s own Peggy gaboury, Mary cokeing,and Marty Healy were co-secretaries and sandy donovanwas the show entry secretary and manager. Peggy said itwas the “biggest finals ever, for dressage – over 500horses and over 200 volunteers to the run the show overthe three days. The view from the secretary’s office is nec-essarily limited, but we knew there was plenty of elec-tricity in the air. every one of the competitors was therewith the secret hope of making it to the usdF nationalFinals, but only two people out of each championshipclass – the champion and the reserve – are guaranteed tomake it. with classes that ran all day, as the Training andFirst level championships did, competition was intenseand the gradual but relentless posting of scores only madethat tension more palpable. inevitably, the horses caughtall of that, and we had four riders “popping off” on thefirst day of competition. no one was hurt, and things set-tled down after that. although any show this size has itsglitches, most people were happy to be there, most of theweather was fine, and the show grounds was filled withbeautiful horses doing their thing.”

Mid-south riders of interest:

suzy Hoyt chandler, #475, riding Belle in Training(64.091% in Training Test 3) and First levels (60% inFirst level Test 3)

Patricia Fannin, #228, rode roxy royale in Fei Prixst. georges and Fei intermediate i. in Fei Prix st.georges, aa, championship class: third place(65.921%). winner of intermediare i aa championshipclass (69.737%). when interviewed after it was over,

Fannin told Peggy gaboury she “was thrilled with thewin, but the award ceremony, in full dress with victorylap, was far more terrifying than the competition hadbeen.”

riders from cTda: nina warren’s student, Jordanlockwood, on neodymion, won Third level Test 3 Jr/yr(67.564%); was second in Third level Test 1 Jr/yr(65.909%); butdidn’t place in Third level Test 3 Jr/yrchampionship class( 63.846%).

emerson Blandford on cindy lu who came in secondin dressage seat equitation Medal semi-Final, 13&under (75%). Jessica wright is her trainer. emersonalso rode Training level, Test 3 Jr/yr (63.295%), andwas just out of the ribbons in First level, Test 1(56.852%).

luann wagner on democracy Js (First level Test 3didn’t place (67.279% and 63.529%) wassecond in Firstlevel test 3 adult amateur (74.265%).

Jana Henry (#362)on velando, won second level test2 adult amateur (62.308%); was third in second leveltest 3 adult amateur (70.976%); was second in secondlevel Test 2 adult amateur (66.923%); was first in sec-ond level Test 3 adult amateur 63.659%; placed fourthin second level aa championship class (66.951%).

daniel Patterson, who is only 11 years old, placed inthe Training level Jr/yr championship in st. louis, inhis first year of competing dressage. He placed sixth outof a class of 14, with a score of 67.614%. His goal for thisyear had been to get to the regional Finals, so actuallyplacing and getting to ride in the awards ceremony wasicing on the cake for him! daniel rides at southwind sta-bles in olive Branch, Mississippi.

The region 3 championship featured a musicalfreestyle “competition” at the saturday night competitors’party. it was won by a rider dressed as “ghost Buster”and included a ghost who hid behind the judge's stand,behind various dressage letters, and behind the big re-gional championships banner, but was eventually slainby the ghost Buster.

second place went to a rider dressed as a chicken, whorode to music that included “The chicken dance,” theMacarena, and finished with yMca. This entry got theaudience on its feet and dancing. Judging was conductedby audience volume, which meant some riders got pointsjust for staying on.

in addition to the dressage competition, there were alot of vendors present, so the competitors had some greatshopping opportunities.

For more information about the show, visit:http://www.gdcta.org/#!oct-9-11th-usdf-2015-regional-c---/lcocy. official photographer for the show was wncphoto: wncphoto.com/galleries14.html

Daniel Patterson

Debbie Hill (photo byJune Brewer)

(left w/ green ribbon) 6th place Virginia king;

(right) Reserve Champion Camilla Van Liew

(photo byJune Brewer)

Emerson blandford on Cindy Lu Who

Carden burdette on Sir Frederico, winner 4th

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Ralph Hill ClinicArticle & photos by LaCresha Kolba

ralph Hill was back for another equestrian clinic at theJaeckle centre in Thompson’s station, Tennessee, octo-ber 17-18, 2015. ralph’s clinic in april filled so quickly,the Jaeckle centre felt the need to bring him back. witha new format to this clinic, ralph offered private lessonsthe first day, with group lessons the second day. This pro-vided the opportunity for one-on-one time with the stu-dents, as well as sufficient time for the students in groups,with 16 or fewer riders in his clinics. The smaller groupallows him to listen to each horse, find what it needs, andhelp the horse be successful.

ralph sees more improvement with this varied format.He takes all time restrictions off the private lesson so hecan focus on that student until he feels they are done. “itcould be an hour or it could be an hour and a half. know-ing i am putting that horse first, finding what it needs, al-lows me to help that horse and rider.” ralph said thatgiving a private lesson the first day of the clinic to each at-tendee allows him to prepare that horse to perform better.

He makes certain that horse is well prepared beforethey go to the jumps. as he educates the rider, the horsediscovers the difference between speed and impulsion. Healso believes in adding variety to your routine; it helps tobreak up the monotony. “i never get bored with horses;

you never know who is going to show up to the dance.Maybe we need to push from the rails, do more work onthe flat, trot and canter over trotting poles before going tothe oxer. when you know your horse, and you both havea connection, you can learn from each other and get astronger performance out of your ride.”

The benefit of learning from ralph Hill is that you canapply his techniques to any riding style. whether you ridedressage or western Pleasure, he encourages riders towork on the foundation of their riding. learn about yourhorse, what works best for him; “where is his heart?”whether they can make it as a high level grand Prix horseor a prize winning western Pleasure horse, if their heartor athletic ability is not there, you and the horse will onlyget discouraged.

ralph encourages the rider to go at the horse’s pace;“what is he telling you?” don’t get defensive if theprogress is slower than you like, ralph cautioned. “oftenwe find ourselves living in this fast food world and weexpect results immediately; a lot can be lost with thatmentality. But when you take your time and develop yourskill, the horse’s skill, you can get great results.”

ralph also encourages riders to change up their rou-tine, “ride what you feel, see how the horse progresses.give your horse a chance. Maybe one day you need toride him long and low, the next day take him out and dogymnastics; do dressage another day. and be sure tostretch; you and your horse are athletes. it is something ioften see overlooked.

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when it comes advancing your riding abilities and skilllevel, ralph suggests finding an advanced trainer. “Findsomeone who has done it, who will teach you and yourhorse. you want to learn from the best, attend clinics, andkeep learning. if you find a trainer who does not workfor you, don’t give up. There is nothing wrong with say-ing, “i’m sorry, but this isn’t a fit for me” and seekingsomeone who will work with you. definitely find the bestand learn from them! you absolutely need to be settinggoals. explore a sport you want to try, whether it is rein-ing, hunter/jumper, dressage, fox hunting, or westernpleasure, and go do it. Be patient with yourself; we don’tenter school at the 12th grade. we start in kindergarten,work our way up to First grade, then we find ourselves inmiddle school and then at the 12th grade level. it is thesame with riding: you start at the bottom and work yourway up to the more advanced levels. certainly find yourniche, and if or when your goals or riding interestschange, communicate that to your trainer.”

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Hines FarmTrail RideBy Tommy Brannon

The Hines’ Farm near walnut, Missis-sippi was once again the site of the annualsaddle up for st. Jude Trail ride on oc-tober 3-4, 2015. This is the 15th year cur-tis and Marjorie Hines and their familyhave hosted this trail ride. Frank Hines andhis sister Beth Hines davis are the organ-izers, and they said that their parents cur-tis and Marjorie, at age 93 and 96, stillenjoy hosting it.

This is a big family and neighborhoodproject, with the trails marked by volun-teers over several adjoining farms ownedby cousins and friends. These volunteersmow the fields, trim trees and underbrush,and feed the riders home cooking.

Frank said that folks like to come in onFriday and camp out for the weekend.There was a big bonfire on Friday nightwith live entertainment from the “st. JudeHouse” front porch.

on saturday, John caldwell ofTiplersville, Ms conducted an auction ofdonated items during lunch. a Billy cooksaddle, donated by Billy cook and Terryavent, brought in $5,500. Terry is a “reg-ular,” and travels from Hastings, Min-nesota every year for this trail ride. MattBrown donated a lit cooler. other volun-teers and contributors included dicksanders with the Bank of Holly springsand scott steele, who took off a week tohelp clear the trails and organize the en-tertainment. Food was provided by theJunction inn in grand Junction, Tn.

a sudden cold snap that dropped in onthe mid-ssouth that weekend did notdampen the spirits of the riders. Bethnoted that the cooler temperaturesmade“some of the horses got a little frisky.”

Frank said, “The trail ride takes two tothree hours and is well marked. it is a goodtrail for everyone – for old people, youngpeople, old horses, and young horses.There are not any Man from snowy riverdrops, but it is still fun. we had big horsesand little horses, mules, english riders,western riders, and walking Horses. Thistrail ride gets bigger every year!”

and so do the contributions to st. Jude.The weekend’s fun activities brought inover $13,000 this year to benefit the pa-tients at st. Jude children’s research Hos-pital. Frank Hines said that, cumulatively,the trail ride has brought in over $100,000for st. Jude. Because of the generosity ofthe community, businesses, and volun-teers, all of the proceeds can go to st. Jude.

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Cowboys & CowgirlsMid-SouthQH BreedersFuturityArticle & photos by Nancy Brannon

The 2015 Mid-south Quarter HorseBreeders (MsQHB) Futurity celebrated its33rd year of showcasing the get from se-lect Quarter Horse farms across Ten-nessee, arkansas, and Mississippi. Heldoctober 24-25 at the show Place arena,Memphis, Tn, the show attracted over 300entries, with “aQHa classes up in entriesthis year,” said Penny robertson, “andranch riding is a growing event. con-gress winners were here this year: Bobbyand karen Johnson, champion in Jr. andamateur ranch riding, and reserve in sr.ranch riding. Jenny Honey and sudden-lyoutoftheblue were nsBa champion andreserve congress champion in amateurranch riding. we had some great mem-bers with nice horses in the Pleasureclasses and had some super nice horses inranch riding. we had 25 entries innovice amateur Pleasure,” she added.

This year the MsQHB added a class formare owners/breeders. a mare bred to anystallion (other than the MsQHB stallions)in the Ms, ar, Tn area could be nomi-nated. There were 33 horses nominated.“The owners nominate their babies in oc-tober, then can show them when they turntwo,” Penny explained. The pot was over$5,000 for this inaugural class.

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in addition to ribbons, MsQHB offeredbelt buckles and chairs to champion andreserve champion winners. all of thechairs are sponsored and the names of thesponsors appear on the chairs, e.g, rickyHall wP Quarter Horses, James & lindaneisler, and Jeff Honey Quarter Horses.Penny and Butch robertson sponsored achair, as did 16 total sponsors. chairs arestill available for sponsorships for nextyear’s show. in addition, the show gaveaway a saddle and head stall this year.

Judges on saturday were nancyswarm, Florida, and Mary luther, Michi-gan. sunday’s judge was amy watkins,ohio. The official show photographer wasPearson Photography of Pleasant Plains,ar. show results were not available atpress time.

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dacus arena in Brighton, Tennesseehosted the season finale for mid-south sad-dle club shows, Battle of the saddle clubs,on a chilly, drizzly rainy saturday night,october 3, 2015. eight clubs participatedin the show: woodstock cuba saddleclub, covington saddle club, old westsaddle club, somerville saddle club,dacus riding club, coyote run saddleclub, ripley Bit & spur, and Hernandosaddle club. The show offered 32 classesin halter, horsemanship, saddle horse,gaited horse, western pleasure, and speedevents: poles, barrel racing, and flags.

This was the third annual show, but thisyear the criteria for show entry wasopened to all members of saddle clubs inthe area, not just the top five in each divi-sion, as had been the requirement in pre-vious years. The number of entries was upfrom previous years, too. Josh Birchfieldwas the judge.

when all was said and done, wood-stock cuba saddle club won the trophy.dacus riding club was second, and cov-ington was third. Butch Maples, Presidentof dacus saddle club, said this was thefirst time dacus had hosted the show.

Roy ShirleyBy Joy Hall, West Memphis Times

roy shirley is a barber in Frasier, Ten-nessee, working from 8 a.m. until 4 or 5p.m. you’d never guess that this large manhas a hobby that starts around 5:30 a.m.

roy gets up at daylight, or earlier, mostdays to ride his horses. He has two regis-tered Quarter Horses, smooth and scooter.roy reads all he can and watches all hecan on Tv about training horses. if he seessomething being done in one of those arti-cles or Tv shows, he goes right out andteaches it to his horses. “i used to teach myhorses to lay down on command; but eversince one thought i was asking him to laydown (when i wasn’t) and caused me tobreak my ankle, i haven’t taught that trickanymore.” That same horse won secondplace at the world Quarter Horse show inranch Horse with his current owner, kylesanders.

roy’s horses come to him in the pasturebecause he has taught them the clintonanderson style of facing their trainers.They will side-pass on line away from himor toward him. They will flex left and rightand are well versed in the one rein stop.The two horses also love to play with thewater and squirt their owner with the waterhose.

roy is among a large group of horseowners who gets enjoyment out of hishorses and does very little “showing.” Hewill make a saturday night local show and

wins many ribbons, but he doesn’t do as-sociation shows or registered shows –even though his horses are of that quality.“i enjoy being able to move the five bodyparts of the horse, and now have taughtscooter (the best loper) to switch leads oncommand in a straight away.” scooter isthe one with whom he usually wins thewestern Pleasure class.

roy has some trouble with his knees(he is 68 years old), so has taught bothhorses to side pass to his trailer, making iteasier for him to get on. smooth (the besttrotter) will pick up roy’s quirt and giveit back to him. He will also back into thehorse trailer. To win the walk/trot classes,roy rides smooth, but occasionally showshim in the western Pleasure class.

There are many unsung horse trainersin this world and roy is one of them. it isa shame that roy doesn’t train horses for

other people. i’m sure he would have hisfill of clients. “i don’t care to ride horsesthat belong to other people. Having to geton with the help of my trailer limits [myworking with] horses that aren’t trainedthat way. But i will do ground work forother people.”

roy occasionally helps his neighborwith horses that won’t load well in thetrailer, but warns them that if you don’tkeep doing what you need to, they willregress.

roy loves to trail ride his horses and en-courages others to ride their show horsesoutside. “riding in different situationshelps to get your horses better broke, andwhen they go to a show, they aren’t afraidof the different sights and sounds.”

if we all spent the time with our horsesthat roy does, we’d be enjoying our ridesor shows so much more. on saturday, oc-tober 3, 2015 roy shirley won the walktrot and the western pleasure classes at theBattle of the saddle clubs held at dacusriding club.

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HillengladeIntroduction by Rafael Valle, trainer of

Ivory Pal

on sunday, october 11, 2015, i had theprivilege of visiting Hillenglade Farm,which is a privately funded, not for profitoperated farm offering an equine assistedHealing Program for our service members,veterans, and their families (free ofcharge) suffering from Post Traumaticstress disorder (PTsd). i also had theprivilege of meeting Jennifer o’neill, whois the founder and operator of HillengladeFarm and the equine assisted HealingProgram. you may recognize Jennifer’sname because she is the former Holly-wood actress, and cover girl model. Jen-nifer is also a lifelong horse lover, who isnow using her passion and love of horsesto help our soldiers, veterans, and theirfamilies.

PTsd is the unseen enemy that followsall too many of our soldiers home fromwar. every 65 minutes an active servicemember’s or a veteran’s life is ended bysuicide due to PTsd. Military families areat great risk. The equine assisted Heal-ing Program at Hillenglade offers ourservice members, veterans, and their fam-ilies (free of charge) the opportunity torenew hearts, restore relationships, and re-build lives. our service men and womendeserve no less for all of their sacrificesfor our country.

By Nancy Brannon

“Hope and healing” is the theme of theequine assisted therapy programs at Hil-lenglade in nashville, Tn. The primaryclients are military personnel, veterans,first responders, and their families. it wasfounded in 2010 by Jennifer o’neill, forwhom horses have been “a life-long com-mitment,” she said. “i was born a horselover.” she started at age 16 ridinghunter/jumpers and showed on the a cir-cuit. she used her modeling career to sup-port her horse habit. “i loved it!” she saidof her riding career. she later turned tobreeding horses, and did that for 40 years.

now at age 67 she has turned her horseinterests into helping others at Hillenglade,

where she has lived for six years with herhusband. “i started the Hope and Healingprogram because i saw difficulty in com-munication between moms and their teendaughters, and horses help facilitate thatcommunication. i was asked by an organ-ization to host care Takers for woundedwarriors. i hosted it for a weekend and itwas an amazing experience! The partici-pants wanted to come back and enjoy theexperience again.” That was the impetusfor starting her program and, “so far wehave helped over 2,000 people, mainlyveterans and their families,” she said. Hil-lenglade hosts three to seven group, fam-ily-oriented celebratory events a year togive clients “time away in the country toenjoy the therapeutic wonder of horses.”recently, o’neill was the recipient of 3 ½donated acres next to her farm to expandthe program. Her goal is to “go deeper intothe needs military families with equine as-sisted therapy.”

Hillenglade uses horses and other ani-mals to treat Post Traumatic stress disor-der, alienation from friends and family,difficulty integrating into society, andstrain within marriages and families.

The program “staff” includes twoPalomino horses, a bay former showhorse, Handsome, two mini donkeys, andothers. The eldest is dandy-lion, a 22-year-old Quarter Horse, “who’s a great hitwith the crowds. He’s our Trigger and isthe perfect dude. He’s an easy guy to putpeople on and have no worries,” o’neillexplained. Handsome, a dutch Holsteiner,is the last show horse o’neill bred and is13 years old. He separated his shoulderand now is uncomfortable jumping. “nowwe just enjoy each other and he doesn’thave to jump,” o’neill said. she’s consid-ering starting him in western dressage,“but i just can’t get used to the westernsaddle,” she confessed. The newest mem-ber is Palomino crème Brulee. Thenthere’s “oats,” a grey Quarter Horse crossand a fancy mover. There’s cloud dancer,a Paint Horse that o’neill got as a 3-year-old. “He’s such a clown!” she sold him toa new owner and “now, he’s over atBrownland Farm winning classes. He’s a

lovely mover,” she explained.o’neill also has some rescued animals.

every animal has a story, o’neill said. adonkey, sissy, had been living next doorwith a herd of cows. all the cows weremoved out and she was left alone. one dayo’neill came home and found her stand-ing in the driveway. so, she’s now a Hil-lenglade resident. sister sara, a Palomino,came from craig’s list. she’s 22 years old,but “when i saw her she was so skinny!she had been worked to the bone. aftershe came here, she gained 300 pounds.she’s spectacular to show folks. warriorscan put their hands on sara’s scars, laytheir hands on her, and connect with her.it’s such a powerful, moving experience!”she also has two mini donkeys, lucy andethel, whom the clients like to paint in thestyle that native americans painted their

ponies.all the services are free to military per-

sonnel, past and present, and their fami-lies. she’s had some celebrities come outto help with fund raising, like kix Brooks,amy grant, and vince gill. she has goalsto expand her programs, and she recentlystarted a boarding barn for retired horses.Her first boarder came just two monthsago – Fidelio, a dutch warmblood retiredshow jumper owned by Heidi Hahn.o’neill would like to offer a foster carehorse and dog program for military per-sonnel when they deploy, so they havegood homes for their animals whilethey’re gone. But all this takes a lot offund raising. Hillenglade has 501(c)3 sta-tus. To learn more about Jennifer's pro-grams, visit her website atwww.Hillenglade.org

Jennifer waves from behind “Oats,”

with Lucy & Ethel in the foreground.

TJ Willis, Head Volunteer with Lucy and Ethel

Marci Ellen during her riding lesson and, below, hugging Dandy


Greener pasturesPreservingHistory inFranklin, TNArticle & photos by Nancy Brannon

The Tennessee Preservation Trust(TPT) was founded in 2000, although theidea for the organization came a year ear-lier, “to promote, preserve, and protect thestate’s diverse historic resources througheducation, advocacy, and collaborativepartnerships.” it is Tennessee’s statewidePartner with the national Trust for His-toric Preservation, so the organization’spreservation efforts run a broad gamut ofproperties statewide. The organization hasa Ten in Tenn. list of the most endangeredhistoric sites in need of protection and/orrestoration.

in addition to historic building preser-vation, and efforts to add them to the na-tional registry, the TPT also has apreservation easement program. ownersof historic property can preserve it in per-petuity and receive tax benefits throughthe donation of a preservation easement tothe TPT. a preservation easement allowsan owner to continue to use their propertyas they wish, but conserves the property’shistoric character for future generations.

recognizing that tourism at Ten-nessee’s numerous historic sites is thestate’s top non-agricultural economic gen-erator, the TPT promotes and assiststourism efforts at historic sites, historic ho-tels and theaters, museums, landmarks,and scenic trails and byways. of course,civil war history is a major part of historicsites tourism. Find more about TPT here:www.tennesseepreservationtrust.org. oneof TPT’s current major projects is secur-ing the buildings and land near sewaneewhere the Highlander Folk school was lo-cated. The school was the seminal trainingground for the civil rights movement, em-powering the likes of Mlk, rosa Parks,activist/folk singer Pete seeger and firstlady eleanor roosevelt.

For over 100 years after the civil warbattle was fought there (nov. 30, 1864),Franklin, Tn remained a rural, small town,only gradually increasing in small incre-ments through the decades. after the civilwar, the biggest increase was from 3,377in 1930 to 4,120 in 1940. But by the 1970sand 1980s, a growth and developmentboom hit the area, and the population grewfrom 9,497 in 1970 to 20,098 in 1990.over the next 20 years, the population hadreached 62,487 in 2010 and is now be-tween 70,000 and 80,000 people. needlessto say, much of the available property inthe area was devoted to subdivisions andcommercial development, taking over bat-tleground lands and making preservationof the historic downtown area difficult.

during those times, the mayor and boardof aldermen were pro-development.

in the mid 1980s, a lady from the greenhills of the Hudson valley in upstate newyork moved to the area, one who saw thetremendous value in preserving historyand protecting historic places and civilwar battleground land. Pam lewis wassent to nashville by rca records to pro-mote the careers of some of their singers.in 1993 she was managing garth Brooksat the height of his career. she lived innashville, working on Music row, butyearned for a place in the country to havehorses. one day she received a phone callfrom a real estate agent who had someproperty he thought Brooks might like fora museum. she told him garth wasn’tlooking for such property, but that shewould give him the information regard-less, adding that she, however, was look-ing for a historic home and land.

The developer showed her the HarrisonHouse on columbia Pike south of Franklinthat was slated to be subdivided, butFranklin would not extend the city sewerout that far and the deal had gone south. “ifelt very much at home here,” lewis saidof her first visit to Harrison House. shepurchased the house in 1993 with severalbarns and outbuildings and 68 acres, whiledavid and sarah ingram bought the re-mainder of the property, several hundredacres, next door. “This house changed my

life,” she said, “and began a remarkablejourney for me. The house found me,” shebelieves. “it’s a blessing and an honor. i’mjust passing through trying to be a goodsteward.”

The house was originally built in 1826as a two-story, Federal-style brick homeon 1,700 acres owned by sheriff williamHarrison. in 1840, Harrison expanded thehouse, adding a two-story portico, a livingroom, parlor, study, two bedrooms and asecret room. The secret room is nowPam’s bedroom. Historically, the roomwas the headquarters of notorious con-federate spy, annie Briggs Harrison, whoheld meetings there. The home was also afield hospital along with 43 other build-ings in Franklin.

The home’s latest renovations had beenin the 1970s, so it was in fairly good shapewhen lewis bought it, but was not periodappropriate. Much of its original splendoris now preserved by lewis. The diningroom chandelier is original Fostoria andczechoslovakian crystal, and the one inthe front parlor is metal gilt and venetian.“i have all but one room filled with periodappropriate furnishings,” she said. on themantle is a girondelle, French candelabrathat was a wedding gift from the carterfamily to the Harrisons. The original ma-hogany empire style piano and petit pointbench was moved to Harrison House fromthe carter House. The original yellow

poplar, cedar, and pine floors are still in-tact throughout most of the house, as wellas the chestnut banister and railings.

The front parlor is where confederategen. John Bell Hood decided to launch anassault against the Federal troops occupy-ing Franklin. after the battle, the house,served as a hospital, as did most otherhouses in Franklin, for some of the nearly10,000 wounded soldiers.

around the time lewis bought HarrisonHouse, five historic buildings on Musicrow were slated to go because theyneeded renovation. she bought them for“half the asking price, and they haveturned out to be good rental properties,”she said. Her Pla Media, of which she isPresident/ceo, is located on Music row.

lewis became a strong advocate forhistoric and green space preservation, anda board member of the TPT. Her advocacyevolved into activism, and she was electedto the Franklin Board of aldermen, alongwith other new, first time ward aldermen –dennis Phillips, robert krieble – as for-ward thinking, green space preservation-ists. Historic proponent ernie Bacon waselected to his second term as alderman,while former alderman Tom Miller de-feated longtime Mayor Jerry sharber tobecome the new mayor. Though Millerwas not initially pro preservation, they allserved well together and got a lot done forFranklin historic preservation. some oftheir accomplishments include: the collinsFarm, the eastern Flank battlefield, whichis now a city park adjacent to carnton; as-sault on the cotton gin on columbia Pike,where there was Pizza Hut, and the prop-erty across the street, which was adomino’s Pizza, and Harlinsdale Farm.Both pizza placeswere bought, knockeddown, and the land reclaimed to become acity park. lewis also worked with the Her-itage Foundation to save winstead Hill,roper’s knob, and the Franklin Theatre;she is currently helping to save the oldJail.

saving historic lands and buildings isnot all that lewis is about saving. lewishas rescued quite a number of animals, in-cluding horses, assorted birds, burros, agoat, three great Pyrenees, a saddlebred

(above) Pam Lewis with buford (left) and Pepper. (below) Dining room and front

parlor at Harrison House.

(above) Harrison House.


named “duke;” two registered minis –Mini Pearl and her foal Happy, who wasborn in the farm; a registered walkingHorse mare named Pepper, named becauseshe is “black and feisty;” Fitzgerald, aspotted TwH whom she got as a foal and“is the sweetest gentleman;” Buford themule; Hattie the sicilian burro; severalbarn cats “named the panthers becausethey’re all black;” clara Barton the housecat; and robinson, an orange Persian whoresides on a suitcase.

Preservation is her cause, whether itcomes to land, historic buildings, or crit-ters. “i want to leave things better than ifound them,” she said. lewis regularlyopens Harrison House to visitors and onhome tours. encampments of soldiershave occupied her property during Battleof Franklin reenactments. “it's like divineintervention,” she said. “you get out whatyou put into this world. i feel like i’vecome home and have such a sense ofplace.” lewis is currently organizingFranklin’s “Homes for The Holidays”christmas tour december 12-13; for infovisit: www.plamedia.com.

augmenting the historic educational ef-forts in Franklin are the tour guides atFranklin on Foot, originated by MargieThessin. [visit franklinonfoot.com] afterpracticing law in west virginia for severalyears, Margie and her family moved toFranklin, where she got involved withFranklin's Heritage Foundation. in 2003she co-founded Franklin on Foot, whichoffers a variety of tours – from history tocemetery tours to ghost and crime tours.on the history tour, visitors can learnabout allen williams, a man born intoslavery who, after emancipation, openedthe first african american business indowntown Franklin – a shoe repair busi-ness on the square. He later purchasedproperty and build a house on Fourth av-enue. [read more at: https://tennesseeen-cyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1654]

The Masonic Temple, built in 1828,was the first 3-story building in Tennessee.it served as barracks for Federal troopsduring the civil war and as a hospital afterthe Battle of Franklin. its “dark” history isthat it is the site of the agreement betweenPresident andrew Jackson and the chick-asaw in the 1830s for the “removal” of in-dians to oklahoma – the unofficial start ofthe Trail of Tears. Hear the story aboutsally carter, a confederate spy who hadsome innovative ways of getting informa-tion past the Federal troop guards and outof Franklin. [read about it here:www.wsmv.com/story/19970162/some-say-civil-war-spy-keeps-franklin-in-her-sights]. The historic tour culminates at theepiscopal church with its eight originalTiffany stained glass windows.

while you’re in Franklin, don’t miss alive performance or film at the FranklinTheatre, while you marvel at the well-done restoration and perfect acoustics.Find out what’s happening here:www.franklintheatre.com

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(above) Protected land at Harrison

House. (below) Carnton

Franklin Civil War park looking to-

ward the Cotton Gin assault parkland.

More Franklin Photos

(above, below left) Scenes from the barn at Harrison House. (below right) Great

Pyrennes and one of the hens at Harrison House.


Easy Barn SolutionBy Tommy Brannon

when Bill and dana lackey decided to relocate fromtheir 10 acre farm in rossville, Tn to a larger one, theyfound 69 acres just a few miles east of their home, stillwithin commuting distance of Memphis. The only troublewas that the larger place was a “fixer upper” – not just thehouse, but also the barn, fencing, and pastures. They de-cided to work on the place for a year and get it horse andhuman habitable before they moved. The one year turnedinto two, which just got it to the point where they and theiranimals could move. a lot more still needed to be done.There was a large pole structure shed that could be tem-porary quarters for the horses and an old 1200 sq. footfarm house, which could be occupied for a while butwould eventually need to be demolished. Bill said thatthey put a lot of thought into all of the renovations.

when making their long term plans, the lackeys de-cided that the location of the shed was the best new housesite and the location of the old house was close to wherethe barn should be. Bill and dana decided it would be bestto provide horse housing first, before demolition of theshed and house construction. key factors in barn selec-tion were: safety, quality construction, movable, a build-ing that could be modified later for hay and equipmentstorage, simplicity, and cost. Their choice was a movablebarn from HillTop structures in cumberland Furnace,Tn. This family owned business has a large selection ofcustom made portable barns and run in sheds, as well ascabins. They also have plenty of experience buildinghorse barns. The lackey’s barn has three stalls and a 12x6foot tack room, plus a 36x7 foot lean-to in front of the

stalls. Bill said, “The lean-to makes a big difference inusability. it gives you work space where you can groom,tack up your horse, and shelter for the farrier or veteri-narian. The tack room has a window, a nice door, and ro-dent barrier to keep the critters out.” The barn has a metalroof, and the stalls have kick boards on the walls and pipegates.

Bill said that the process was actually pretty easy. “youselect the features that you want and the color. They buildit, bring it out, and set it up.” dave king owner of Hilltopstructures said, “what’s unique about our barns is that wecan bring them in via truck and trailer. and if it’s muddy,we can hook our 4x4 pickup to the trailer, or unload thebarn, put flotation tires under it, and wheel it in to placewith a small fork lift machine called a “mule.”

Bill added, “construction took a few weeks after i or-dered it and it took two days for delivery. i had the sightwork done when it arrived. The lean-to came attachedwith hinges to the barn and was raised and set on posts.The cost was $10,700 including taxes and delivery. Thesite work consisted of raising the ground level where thebarn was to sit and getting Fowler Paving in somerville,Tn to deliver and spread two loads of #8 crushed lime-stone. This grade of limestone drains, but will not easily

wash away.” He ran a water line from the well to the barn,but still needs to put lights in the barn. The total cost in-cluding the site work came in under $12,000.

The lackey’s like the flexibility of their new barn. Billsaid that the construction design is pretty straight forward,and if he decides to move stall walls or turn the barn intoequipment shed at a later date, that is doable. They couldeven relocate it on the farm if they want to.

The Lackey’s barn was delivered by truck and set

up on site after the ground was prepared. It has three

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Ames HeritageFestivalArticle & photos by Nancy Brannon, Ph.D.

The Historic village at ames Plantation, grand Junc-tion, Tennessee, was once again transformed to a fair-likesetting for the 18th annual Heritage Festival on october10, 2015. cloudy skies and cool temperatures in themorning gave way to sunny skies and warm temperaturesafter lunch, making saturday a delightful day for explor-ing a wide variety of crafts and learning about the “oldways” of farming and making everything one could need.This year had one of the highest attendance rates in all ofits 18 years: 5,121 visitors. There were approximately 150crafts artists/vendors demonstrating their skills and sell-ing their creations.

There was story telling and historic information aboutnative american culture, in the days before europeansarrived. dale deBerry explained the history and tech-niques of brick making by slaves. The civil war era wasrepresented by re-enactors dressed in period attire,demonstrating an encampment and firing artillery.

Folk artists brought their skills to show: basket weav-ing, stenciling, knitting, spinning, weaving, tatting, quilt-ing, pottery, wood carving, gourd art, portrait silhouettes,leatherwork, bird houses, driftwood art, all kinds of jew-elry, broom making, painting, photography, and muchmore.

From the era of hard work and self-sufficiency, visi-tors could learn about blacksmithing and farriery (shoeing

horses), antique tractors, meat processing, milling grain –particularly stone ground corn meal; dark fired tobaccoproduction, alpaca wool, goat milking and making goat’smilk soap; all about cotton – picking, ginning, spinning,and all the things that can be made from a bale of cotton.gary Mcwilliams demonstrated the 19th century tech-niques for building a log cabin, from hewing and notch-ing logs to riving shakes (making shingles). alan smithonce again brought kroger and Big star to demonstratehow logging with horses is done.

Blues, gospel, and string band music could be heardall day from the aisle of the Mule Barn, dulcimer playingon the cabin front porch, and artists playing accordion anddulcimer on the porch of another cabin. visitors could seea demonstration of the earliest music recording devices.

This year’s festival included writers, offering theirbooks for sale and telling the particular history of thesouth they have captured in their fiction. Margaret Tutor,of olive Branch, Mississippi, writes historical fiction inher latest book Just Passing Through, about the share-cropping ward family in the 1920s. ramona Bridges, ofseminary, Mississippi, has a trilogy out: Standing On the

Promises, An Unclouded Day, and Sweet By and By.

randy Bishop brought his civil war-themed books. Heis an avid scholar of the civil war and an advocate forpreservation and restoration of historic battlefields. Hehas authored several books, including Tennessee’s Civil

War Battlefields, Civil War Generals of Tennessee, Ken-

tucky’s Civil War Battlefields, The Tennessee Brigade, andMississippi’s Civil War Battlefields.

The ames Plantation Historical society offered a draw-ing for one of the handmade quilts on display. The winnerwas a lady from rochester, ny.

There was plenty of food to enjoy, from Mexican toBBQ to hamburgers to popcorn and funnel cakes. and ontheir way home, visitors could pick up a few pumpkinsfor their fall decorations and pumpkin pie making.

since the national championship for Field TrialingBird dogs is held annually at ames Plantation in Febru-ary, bird dogs have become a part of the Heritage Festi-val. visitors can learn about quail, bird dogs, field trials,see Pointers and setters, and pet them, at the festival.

ames Plantation’s Heritage village is a collection ofrestored structures representing the area’s architecturalheritage from around 1820 until the early 20th century.The village includes a typical 19th century family farm-stead, the 1830s stencil House, a one-room schoolhousefrom the early 1900s, a replica brick kiln, and the “cottoninterpretative center" housed in a restored log cabin.

The Heritage Festival is held annually to educate thepublic about the area’s history, the variety of 19th centuryartisan skills that were necessary for existence, and en-tertain with the sounds of gospel, bluegrass, traditional,and old time music on a variety of musical instruments.visitors can purchase many of the hand-made items of-fered. There are also opportunities for visitors to take partin hands-on activities like picking cotton or greens andmilking goats.

Find more information about ames Plantation, the Her-itage Festival, and the national championship field trialsat: www.amesplantation.org. if you are a history buff,there is also opportunity to join the ames Plantation His-torical society and become involved in preservation proj-ects at ames. information about the Historical society isalso available at the ames Plantation website.

Dulcimer maker bob Magowan explains how the

mountain dulcimer is played.

Farrier Harold Elder demonstrated horse shoeing

at the Mule barn.

bluegrass music from Good Time Grass in the Mule

barn.

Dale Deberry explained the history and techniques

of brick making.

Gary McWilliams demonstrated 19th century tech-

niques for riving shakes (making shingles).

broom making demonstration


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West AlabamaBy Ryne Rickman

livingston, ala. – The university ofTennessee at Martin men’s rodeo teamearned its first victory of the season with adominant win at the university of westalabama, october 8-10, 2015.

The uT Martin men’s team piled up835 points, which was 180 points morethan second-place east Mississippi. TheuT Martin women’s squad compiled 70points, finishing seventh in the team stand-ings.

uT Martin boasted the top two cow-boys in bareback riding. Houston Herbertfinished with the best scores of both thefirst round (78) and in average (146) whileplacing third in the short go (68). TannerPhipps compiled the top score of the sec-ond round with 76 points before finishingsecond in average (141) and fifth in thefirst round (65).

lane Mitchell performed well in calfroping, splitting second in the first roundwith a time of 9.8. He would later placefourth in average (20.4) after he finishedfifth in the short go (10.6).

on the women’s side, savannah warnerwas consistently amongst the best cow-girls in breakaway roping. she placed sec-ond with a 6.6 average after finishing insecond place in both the first round (3.1)and the short go (3.5).

Micayla gray tallied team points ingoat tying, placing fourth with a time of9.4 seconds in the first round.

uT Martin found most of its success inthe team roping event, as nine memberswere responsible for all points. Mitchellteamed with Marcus Theriot from east

Mississippi to finish first in average (15),first in the opening round (6.4) and secondin the short go (8.6). Tucker kail and clayTilley also performed well, securing thebest time (6.6) in the short go before fin-ishing second in average (20). The duo ofBen walker and douglas rich placed sec-ond in the first round with a time of 6.7,which was also good enough to earnfourth place in average. slade Bronsonand Phipps’ time of 6.8 led to a third-placefinish in the first round and a fifth-placefinish in average. The team of shara ad-cock and robbie van Holten also gener-ated points for uT Martin, as their openinground time of 7.4 seconds placed the duoin fourth place and also sixth place in av-erage.

a total of four uT Martin cowgirlsracked up points in barrel racing. kenzleywilson finished fourth in average (37.14)after fourth-place finishes in the firstround (18.72) and in the second round(18.42). ashley Brooks’ opening roundtime of 18.65 seconds placed her in thirdplace before Madison crow finished fifthin both average (37.86) and in the short go(18.98). Megan crow also earned pointsin the average (37.96, sixth) and in theshort go (19.1, sixth).

uT Martin returns to action when itmakes the short trek to the rodeo hostedby Murray state on oct. 15-17, 2015.

UTM: SecondStraight Win At

Murray StateBy Ryne Rickman

Murray, ky. – For the secondstraight week, the university of Tennesseeat Martin men’s rodeo team notched a winas it earned 780 points for a runaway vic-tory at Murray state university.

The uT Martin men’s team won by amargin of 245 points over second-placewest alabama. uT Martin’s women’steam also performed well, accumulating210 points for a fourth-place finish, just 10points behind second place and 75 pointsbehind team winner west alabama.

Three cowboys represented uT Martinin bareback riding. The group was led byTanner Phipps, who finished first in aver-age (143) and in the first round (75) whilealso splitting fourth in the short go (68).Houston Herbert placed second in theshort go with a score of 71 while finishingfifth in both average (131) and in the open-ing round (60). coy lutz also earnedpoints for uT Martin, as his 71 perform-ance in the short go was the second-bestscore in the event.

lane Mitchell paved the way for threeuT Martin cowboys who contributedpoints in calf roping. Mitchell’s time of18.4 in the average was the best of the 10participants in the event, as he also splitfirst in the opening round (9.0) and fin-ished third in the short go (9.4). Benwalker placed third with a time of 9.3 inthe first round before finishing fifth inboth the short go (15) and in average(24.3). Trey lloyd’s time of 9.7 in theopening round also earned him a fourth-place finish.

in breakaway roping, natalie Fletcherearned points in all three rides. she splitthird with a time of 2.5 in the first round

before finishing fifth in both the secondround (4.1) and in average (6.6).

The uT Martin men earned more pointsthanks to slade Bronson’s efforts in steerwrestling. His opening round time of 5.4was the best in the field of 10 cowboyswhile that time held up as the fourth-bestperformance in average.

The cowgirl duo of Micayla gray andsarah Montgomery also built up points foruT Martin in goat tying. gray finishedthird in the opening round (7.9), split thirdin the second go (8.0) and placed fourth inaverage (15.9). Montgomery accountedfor points in both the opening round (8.5,split fifth) and in the second round (8.7,sixth).

a total of five uT Martin representa-tives scratched out points in the team rop-ing event. The duo of walker and douglasrich posted the best time in the short go(6.0) and the second-best time in average(20.2). shara adcock and robbie vanHolten also established themselves as oneof the best teams, placing first in the open-ing round (6.7) and fifth in average (6.7 on1). lloyd joined forces with west al-abama’s lacus Brown 8.8 performance inthe first round earned the duo a fifth placefinish.

ashley Brooks rounded out the suc-cessful outing for both uT Martin teamswith team points in all three tries of barrelracing. she produced a fourth-place effortin the opening round (15.55), a third-placeperformance in the short go (15.44) andsplit third in the average (30.99).

UTM RodeoTeams ShowSolid Perform-ances At Three

Rivers By Ryne Rickman

PoPlar BluFF, Mo. – The univer-sity of Tennessee at Martin placed secondon the men’s side and sixth on thewomen’s side at the rodeo hosted by Threerivers college oct. 22-24.

The uT Martin men’s team posted 425points, which was 160 points shy of first-place Missouri valley college. The uT

Martin women’s squad compiled 115points, which was 185 points behind first-place arkansas-Monticello.

Tanner Phipps turned in an impressiveperformance in bareback riding, nearlysweeping first place in all three rounds.His 80-point showing in the first roundand his 153 average were the best scores inthe event while his 73 points in the shortgo ranked second. coy lutz finishedfourth in average (127) after placing fifthin both the first go (61) and in the short go(66) while Houston Herbert also earnedpoints for uT Martin, as his 68 in the firstround was good enough for fifth place inboth that round and in the average.

a trio of uT Martin cowboys also ac-counted for points in calf roping. sladeBronson was the highest finisher with atime of 9.5 in the short go (second place),an 18.3 average (third) and an 8.8 in the

first round (fourth). Ben walker turned infifth-place finishes in the short go (12.9)and in average (22.5) while lane Mitchellsecured points in the first round with afifth-place time of 9.0.

kelsey Bussell earned points in break-away roping, as she split sixth with a firstround time of 3.0 in the event.

in goat tying, kylie Brueggeman placedfifth in both the short go (7.2) and in aver-age (15.3) while Meredith Mcdonnell’sfirst round time of 7.0 was good enoughfor fourth place.

Four cowboys spread out over threeseparate teams built up points for uT Mar-tin in team roping. The duo of Tucker kailand clay Tilley accumulated the most totalpoints in the event, taking home first placehonors in both the first round (5.4) and inaverage (5.4 on 1). uT Martin’s Quentinsawyer joined forces with southern

arkansas’ cord Barricklow to tally thesecond-highest scores in the event withtheir times of 5.8 in the first round and 5.8on 1 in average. lane Mitchell alsoteamed with Marcus Theriot of east Mis-sissippi community college to split fifthin the first round (6.8).

The uT Martin women’s team had fourcowgirls who scratched out points in bar-rel racing. nealey dalton led the way bysplitting second in the short go (12.33),finishing third in average (24.88) and plac-ing fourth in the opening round (12.55).Macy randolph came in fifth place in av-erage (25.06) after splitting fifth in the firstround (12.6). Teammates raegan Taylorand Megan crow split fifth in the short go(12.42) while Taylor also finished sixth inaverage (25.08).

uT Martin will wrap up its fall slate atsouthern arkansas on nov. 5-7.

Nealey Dalton (Hubbell Photography)ben Walker (Hubbell Photography)


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AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENADEC. 4-6: lucky dog Barrel racesDEC. 30: autoZone liberty Bowl rodeo

FORREST CO. MULTI PURPOSE CNTRJaN. 1-2: new years Barrel race

GERMANTOWN CHARITY ARENANOV. 5-8: wTHJa Harvest Time show

LEE COUNTY AG CENTERNOV. 14: ne Ms cutting HorseNOV. 21: all america Barrel race NOV. 29: all america Barrel race DEC. 11-12: wild Horse & Burro adoptionDEC. 19: all america Barrel race

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TENNESSEE LIVESTOCK CENTERNOV. 2-5: MTsu Block & Bridle little inter-nationalNOV. 21-22: stones river Pony club

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TRI-STATE EXHIBITION CENTERNOV. 7-8: scenic city iea Horse showNOV. 13-14: uPHa Horse showNOV. 21-22: Tn/ga High school rodeo

TUNICA ARENA & EXPO CNTRNOV. 5-7: Tunica Fall classic TwH showNOV. 20-22: F5 Barrel raceNOV. 27-29: Mid-south Quarter Horse showDEC. 11-13: Ms classic Team roping

UT MARTIN AG PAVILLION NOV. 6-7: rodeo Boosters barrel raceNOV. 13-15: Horsemanship clinic (luthi)NOV. 21: eq Team open show

INTERCOLLEGIATE HORSE SHOWSOCT. 31-NOV. 1: knoxville, Tn. MaryvillecollegeNOV. 7-8: Murray, ky. Murray state univ.

INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSNNOV. 5-7: Magnolia, ar. southern ar univ.

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TENNESSEE JR RODEO ASSOCIATIONNOV. 7: decaturville, Tn

LITTLE BRITCHES RODEONOV 7-8: springfield, Tn. Barnfly Farms,6015 Hwy. 76 e. TlBra rodeo

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HORSE & TACK SALESNOV. 7: Bowling green, ky. west ky Horsesales, inc. 11 am. consignment sale. info:wayne Boyd 270-365-7272 www.westken-tuckyhorsesales.comDEC. 11-12: verona, Ms. wild Horse & Burroadoption. info: 888-274-2133. blm.govSECOND FRIDaY: gleason, Tn. west Tnauction Barn. 330 Fence rd. 6:30 pm. info:chucky greenway 731-571-8198 SECOND & FOURTH SaTURDaY: scottsHill, Tn. scotts Hill stockyard. info: Jameslinville 731-549-3523. www.facebook.com/scottshillstockyard

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BARREL RACINGNOV. 6-8: searcy, ar. white co. Fairgrounds.lucky dog Productions Barrel race. info: www.luckydograces.comNOV. 14: Brandon, Ms nBHa Ms03 Barrelrace. info: robert sutton 601-813-3968NOV. 14: ashland, Ms. Benton co. Fairgrounds.nBHa Ms01 & 02. info: courtni 901-651-7622or Beau 662-544-5290NOV. 14: decaturville, Tn. Triple P arena. win-ter series Barrel race. 10 am. info: wayne Pow-ers 731-549-6517NOV. 14-15: Mason, Tn coyote run arena.nBHa Tn 05 grand Finale. info: info: kennylane 901-288-8184 or Melanie lyell 901 282-9661NOV. 19-22: Tunica Ms. Paul Battle arena.Jerry chilton Memorial race 573-631-3602NOV. 21: iron city, Tn. iron city arena. nBHaTn09. info: amber case 985-320-9661NOV. 21: Holly sping, Ms. Marshall county

Fairgrounds kudzu klassic Barrel race. info:Beau 662-544-5290 [email protected]. 28: iron city, Tn. iron city arena. iBra.info: 931-279-9358NOV. 28: Mason, Tn. coyote run arena.nBHa Tn winter seriesNOV. 28: Holly sping, Ms. Marshall countyFairgroiunds kudzu klassic Barrel race. info:Beau 662-544-5290 [email protected]. 4-6: Memphis, Tn. show Place arena.lucky dog Productions Barrel race. info: www.luckydograces.comDEC. 5: Brandon, Ms. rankin co. Multipurposearena. info: nBHa Ms03. info: robert sutton 601-813-3968DEC. 12: Pontotoc, Ms. Pontotoc co. agri cen-ter. nBHa Ms01 & 02: info: courtni at 901-651-7622 or Beau at 662-544-5290DEC. 12: iron city, Tn. iron city arena. nBHaTn09. info: amber case 985-320-9661DEC. 12: Mason, Tn. coyote run arena.nBHa Tn winter seriesDEC. 12: decaturville, Tn. Triple P arena. win-ter series Barrel race. 10 am. info: wayne Powers 731-549-6517DEC. 19: iron city, Tn. iron city arena. iBra.info: 931-279-9358DEC. 26: Mason, Tn. coyote run arena.nBHa Tn winter series

COWBOY MOUNTED SHOOTINGNOV. 7-8: shelbyville, Tn. clearview Farm.western Mounted shooters. info: darren (931)632-0408NOV. 12-14: louisville ky. north american in-ternational livestock expo

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EVENTINGNOV. 13-15: new Market, Tn. river glen FallHorse TrialsNOV. 21: olive Branch, Ms. Misty MeadowsFarm. dressage & cross country cT. info:Peggy Hart (901) 299-5032; email: [email protected]. 28: oxford Ms. cedar wind Farm, dres-sage & cross country schooling (662)816-0610

FOXHUNTINGNOV. 7: Hudsonville, Ms. lodge Farm. oakgrove Hunt club opening Meet & Blessing ofthe HoundsNOV. 14: canton, Ms. Tilda Bogue. chulaHoma opening Meet & Blessing of the HoundsNOV. 14: como, Ms. longreen Foxhoundsopening Meet & Blessing of the Hounds

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ROPINGNOV. 21-22: Harriman Tn. roane state com-munity collegeDEC. 11-13: Tunica, Ms. expo center. Missis-sippi classicTUESDaY: Moscow, Tn. Team roping prac-tice, sonny gould arena, 1985 Poole rd. 6-9p.m. $25 info: (901) 491-1678.www.gouldropinHorses.comTHURSDaY: Humboldt, Tn. goodrich arena.calf roping, Breakaway, gynmanstics. 5:50-8pm. info: 731-426-2530

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November 23. Please enjoy our “Parting shot” from the HinesFarm st. Jude Trail ride.Happy Trails to you!see you next month!

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