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Firefly Walkers. We let the Walkin do the Talkin.
This page is for Hill's
Perfection
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Hill's
Perfection
A Hidden Horse with a Great
Future
"A horse without a physical flaw, " six-year-old
HILL'S PERFECTION, made his debut at the 1963 National
Celebration by seizing the trophy in the Four-Years and Older
Gelding Class to become the World's Champion Gelding, and he
promises to be contender for the World's Grand Championship
battle this year--chosen by the judges for the three-horse
workout with
SUN'S
DELIGHT, Sam Pashal up, and
TRIPLE THREAT,
ridden by Harold Kennedy.
HILL'S
PERFECTION had been a "hidden horse" since his
foaling in Iowa-until the day Steve Hill bought the animal as
a stallion, aged four years, six months. he had been
running in North Dakota with mares, engaged in "pasture
breeding".
Steve had a
man-sized job in breaking the strong stallion; and he gelded
the stalwart son of
MIDNIGHT
SUN out of BABY RAY by MERRY BOY
in the process of developing the great gelding within a period
of eighteen months.
HILL'S
PERFECTION swept the blue ribbon in his class at the Chicago
International last fall, first of this major show
victories. Then the horse campaigned in Middle Tennessee
to win at the spring show in Nashville, at Manchester, at Huntsville,
and at Murfreesboro.
Steve says
that the horse has no physical flaw that he has been able to
detect. He has a natural lick; he possessed a rare rhythm,
hard to find in most horses; he executes the gaits separately
and distinctly; he has speed to cope with any other animal of
the breed; and he also shows the natural head motion that
identifies perfectly the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Oldest Active
Trainer In Show
The veteran
trainer-rider, oldest in years of service among all the active
trainers showing at the Celebration of 1963, believes this
gelding will "last for years" as a contender for top
honors. And Steve should know. He sat on the back
of
TALK OF THE
TOWN, a gelding who won the Grand Championship
of the World in 1951-52-53--and set the record no other horse
has equaled.
HILL'S
PERFECTION won this class with a judge-referee vote for first
place and was a unanimous choice for third place in the Grand
Championship Stake in which fifteen horses competed.
Steve Hill
won four blue ribbons and a third place to lead all
professional riders at the 1963 Big Show. He was ridden
in every one of the 25 Celebrations--and rode STROLLING MARY
to the Two-Year Championship in the 1939 Celebration that
started the historic show on its march to great glory.
He also owned his victorious horse that year.
HILL'S
PERFECTION was sold in 1962 to Mrs. Dwain Clark of Beverly
Hills, California.
Above
article taken from the "Voice" magazine.
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1975 World
Champion
HILL'S PERFECTION
and
Ross Perot, Jr. |
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A sensation
throughout his remarkable show career, HILL'S PERFECTION proved
his right to be known as a true, three-gaited Walking Horse by
winning his class on Wednesday night, thus becoming a World's
Champion, and then returning to finish a strong third in the big
stake on Saturday night. His performances in the National
Celebration have won for
HILL'S PERFECTION new followers
among
those who appreciate true TWH.......
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As taken from an
email from Franne Brandon: "You are asking me to go back
many years to remember Hill's Perfection. He was, of
course, a padded show horse, and I do not remember if this
Juvenile Championship was before or after the horses began
showing with chains-excuse me, action devices. At the
time, I believe the old guy was 20 years old, but stamina
abounded, and he demonstrated all the front action, overstride,
nod, and timing of a champion. Back then, the show horses
were often natural enough, and if they showed enough on pads,
once they were taken down to flat, they still walked. What I
remember noticing the most, besides being awed that a 20 year
old was able to make such a show, was the muscling on his
haunches. I wondered how athletic he might have been if
kept flat shod and worked at normal horse activities."
Franne Brandon |
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