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Tennessee
Walking Horse OnLine Congratulates
Adult
Supreme Champion
Mr. & Mrs. Robert
Lingenfeltner, Washington
Friday’s Lady Blue K.
It is perhaps fitting that the first part of Lady Blue's
story come from Ann Kuykendall, her breeder, who was there with us in the
early days. Ann wrote: "She was born in the spring of 1983, born with the
genes to become a champion!
"Her dam, Little Iodine W. was shown in California as a young mare and did
quite well. Her sire, Supreme Champion Good Friday F. was one of the most
versatile and talented horses I ever had the pleasure of riding.
"In July the 1983, when Lady Blue was a weanling, Bob Lingenfelter came to
Oklahoma to a seminar. He spent some time here at Wendy Hill with us. He
promptly fell in love with and bought one of our yearling fillies,
Friday's Wildfire. Later that year (December, in fact) he came to pick her
up, but he had two spaces in his trailer. He just couldn't go home without
Friday's Lady Blue K. She was a beautiful filly, willing, easy to manage,
she had a lovely head and a big bold natural stride. He made an excellent
choice.
Bob spent a week in transit from Muskogee to Tacoma, unloading and resting
his fillies often. They arrived in great shape and promptly proceeded to
organize the whole Lingenfelter family! These two mares got a wonderful
home and are loved and used by all the family. What more could a breeder
ask? Lady Blue, all your relatives here at Windy Hill (human and equine)
salute you and your family, those who had the desire and the fortitude to
take you all the way. We are so proud!"
Indeed, Lady Blue has made all us Lingenfelters very happy. We took the
time to bring her along slowly and deliberately, step by step, all the way
to the top. The time was well worth it. We began driving her as a
two-year-old with Vivian, our daughter, at the whip in the show ring and
Jan at the whip in the parades and demonstrations we attended. Thanks to
Lane Curry's training and Lady Blue's willing manner she was easy to drive
in any type of cart or buggy and with her natural ability proved to be an
excellent representative of the breed at these functions. I remember one
demonstration that Jan and Lady Blue attended had 300 elementary school
children hugging, petting and climbing under and around her, Lady Blue
loved every minute of it!
When Lady Blue was ready to be ridden, our trainer, Jeff Curry, who had
started her under saddle while still at his father Lane Curry's barn, was
the one to take her out as his first customer in his own training stable.
That first show was a great success with Lady Blue not only going Model
Champion but picking up several riding points only to find out that we had
forgotten to register her with the versatility program. Needless to say,
we promptly got her registered while groaning over the lost points. She
was on her way. We put our son, David, on board as our two-gait amateur
rider and began collecting our 29 E-Z rider points and 11 water glass
points; they made a good pair. Linda Voss rode as our three-gait amateur
and then came Jeff's turn with three-gait classes, trail and reining where
she really excelled. Lady Blue became "the horse to beat". By the time the
1989 high point banquet rolled around, she had become high point or
honorable mention for trail, reining, promotion and western pleasure in
either or both National and Washington State and, to our surprise, she was
awarded the trophy for the Most Versatile Horse of the Year for Washington
State. We were so proud of her. In 1990 she gained more reining and trail
points as we worked on the last few model points. These she finished in
1991 for both her Versatility and Supreme Versatility Championships. She
also foaled a lovely little filly out of Superlite's Dreamer that spring
and was then given a well deserved rest.
Lady Blue is truly a lovely mare, willing and anxious to please and
currently being ridden by Jan and our grandchildren just for fun. Our
thanks go wholeheartedly to Ann and Bob, Lane and Jeff, Linda, Vivian,
David and Lady Blue for this well deserved championship
(Reprinted from Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
magazine, November, 1992)
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