A Very Special Friday Night In Oklahoma
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Friday evening session at the 2007 Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show closed with a very poignant performance. It was another record-setting achievement for JW That Special Flaire as he earned the Park Harness World Grand Championship for the third year in a row. The phenomenal four-year-old became the first to ever earn the honors in three consecutive years while his sire HVK Bell Flaire and grandsire Noble Flaire along with The Buckeye and Overlook Timbalier did each win the title three non-consecutive times. Prior to his victory pass in this great evening finale, announcer Bill Carrington asked Ken Swanson to wait a moment before making his victory pass. At this time Carrington paid tribute to the Judy Whitney Harris, as he spoke what so many in attendance were thinking. We are certainly all thinking about “the little blonde lady in Kentucky” who bred, raised and trained this horse and who has given the world so much of her special flaire. With a standing-ovation JW That Special Flaire closed out the Friday evening session in world championship fashion.
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Seen at Friday's Grand National:
JW That Special Flaire made history
as Ken Swanson drove the three-time
Park Harness World Grand Champion
for Frances Pugh.
Luman Wadhams guided Sarde’s Manistique
to the English Pleasure World Grand Championship
with a unanimous victory for Deedee Ludlam.
Airegantlee and Mari Sanderson enjoyed
center stage as they drove away with the
Classic Pleasure Driving World Grand Championship
under the Rushton Stables banner.
BKC Valiant Star and Casey McDonald
opened the evening session with the
Amateur Park Saddle World Championship
ride under the direction of David Rand.
Fait Accompli and Katie Mair
enjoyed the spotlight ride in the
Ladies English Pleasure World Championship.
Graycliff Miss Liberty and Mary Carlton
carried home the roses in the
Hunter Pleasure World Grand Championship
with a unanimous victory.
Treble’s Tanqueray posed following his Amateur
Western Pleasure World Championship victory
with his winning team of Jim and Ashley Morris,
trainer Judy Nason, and Carol and Greg Fleck.
Versace and Angela Conner Bulmer carried
the roses from the Amateur Masters
English Pleasure World Championship back to
Great Britain under the direction of Peeper Ranch.
Donna Zimmerman and Stonecroft Neoclassic
scored a unanimous victory in the Junior
Classic Pleasure Driving World Championship
directed by Jim Taylor.
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