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| It was a hot and humid Tuesday night at the end of August, but the competition was strong at the 86th Annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. A total of 13 classes were on the schedule for the evening. In what has become as traditional as Ronnie Spears and White Diamond Dollar presenting the Stars and Stripes is Gary Haile offering an energetic rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner”. Ron Adams of Emmanuel Church Pentecostal opened with the prayer. |
8/28/2024 |
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8/28/2024 |
| Entries in class 139, Owner-Amateur Riders on Walking Mares or Geldings, 15.2 & Under, will also be considered a Preliminary class to Class 192, Owner-Amateur Riders on Walking Mares or Geldings, World Grand Championship®. |
8/28/2024 |
| Monday night … the night of the highly anticipated Two-Year-Old Stallions at the 86th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in “The Big Oval”. |
8/27/2024 |
| In the interview that follows, owner Jackie Greenwalt shares her thoughts after Millionaire's Row and Bill Callaway's unanimous victory in the 15.2 & Under Stallions on Monday evening... |
8/27/2024 |
| Alex Luttrell and the entire Luttrell Family are saddened by the loss of one of their favorites, Skywalk’s Threat, who passed away August 26, 2024, due to complications with colic surgery. His barn name was Luke. Luke was a once in a lifetime walking pony and was loved by so many as well as Alex who rode him to multiple titles. He will be forever missed, but never forgotten. |
8/27/2024 |
| Suzanne was born June 10, 1946 in Lincoln County, Tennessee to the late Eugene Cunningham and Martha Francis Wilson Cunningham. She grew up on a farm in Cyruston where she and her late brother Doug Cunningham would milk cows and help with the family farm. |
8/27/2024 |
| Joyce Franks, age 66, of Loganville, Georgia, passed away on June 15, 2024. |
8/27/2024 |
| It was the Monday before Labor Day, so in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry that means we have come to the final morning session of the Celebration. The weather remained beautiful for all to enjoy the show in Cooper Steel Arena. Pleasure and weanling halter classes were what the 13-class schedule for the morning consisted of, closing out with a final equitation class. |
8/26/2024 |
| In the interview that follows, Kaitlyn Rippy shares her thoughts after winning the Owner-Amateur Four-Year-Old Country Pleasure class aboard Crypto. |
8/26/2024 |
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8/26/2024 |
| It’s been more than 50 years since the Daugette sisters showed at the Celebration, but their story includes some of the greatest records made in the 86 years of the show’s history. And they are still making records.Burt Daugette Lowe and Anne Daugette Renfrow set a standard of firsts. In the years spanning from 1966 to 1971, they won a total of six world championships and seven world grand championship titles. |
8/26/2024 |
| In the interview that follows, Levi Parker and Frank Clark share their thoughts after their winning rides on Sunday evening at The Celebration. |
8/26/2024 |
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8/25/2024 |
| With no day classes, everyone was ready to go at 7 p.m. for the Sunday session of the 2024 Celebration. Dan Reed of New Vision Baptist Church in Unionville, Tennessee, presented the invocation. With Ronnie Spears and White Diamond Dollar presenting the Stars and Stripes, Shelbyville’s Micah Doak Wilson presented a wonderful a cappella rendition of the “National Anthem”. |
8/25/2024 |