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National Dressage Pony in the 16 & Under Division with a 67.564% Cup (Ndpc), July 7-9, 2017 FREE HHoorrssee RReevviieeww VOL. 27 • NO. 12 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 AUGUST 2017 2. August, 2017 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THE C OVER : Champagne Assets, Kelsey guthrie Rudy of Vassar, MI, won the Amateur golden Horse Award at the Palomino Horse Breed - HHoorrssee RReevviieeww august 2017 ers Association World Show, Tunica, Mississippi, July 12-22, Equus Charta, LLC 2017. ( Nancy Brannon photo ) See article p. 26. Copyright 2017 ContentS • v ol . 27 • n o. 12 6220 greenlee #4 P.o. Box 594 arlington, tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PUBLISHER & E dITOR : Tom & dr. Nancy Brannon STAff : Andrea gilbert Tara Moody WEBSITE : www.midsouthhorsereview.com E- MAILS : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com [email protected] The Palomino World Show brought Lucy Heaton & HC San Patrignano Mustang Cinch in training with Rea - beautiful horses to Tunica. 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August, 2017 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview. com Book & art nook “like many young girls, i was obsessed with horses. i dreamed about horses. i drew and painted them. i pored over books dedicated to them. eventually, my weekly horseback riding lesson evolved into horse ownership.” Samantha Sam grew up riding in rodeos, mainly barrel racing with some poles and goat end, both parents were supportive of her home in arkansas. She has done several tying. When she graduated from high change to art. painting projects, such as 100 horses in Sherry Art school, she got a rodeo and an academic So in 2001 she graduated with a Bach - 100 days; this marked her second year By Nancy Brannon, Ph.D. scholarship to arkansas State University. elor of Fine arts in Studio art. her senior doing this work. She also painted dog por - “i thought i might be a vet [veterinarian], year in undergraduate school, she had traits for the tunica humane Society – 30 new art studio recently opened in which is what people expect of a person spent the summer in italy studying fash - dogs in 30 days. aarlington, tennessee – called the who loves animals,” she said. in college ion design and illustration. that experi - her work will continue on display at the little Studio on the Square. it’s located she did barrel racing on the rodeo scholar - ence still influences some of her work. “it little Studio on the Square through the next to S.y. Wilson’s store, which was ship. “Because i was a member of my uni - was an incredible experience!” she said. summer. most recently her work was once one of the original Wilson-owned versity’s rodeo team, i was able to bring in 2004 she moved to memphis, tenn. shown at the 46th annual tennessee Craft buildings. owned by ashley Burns and my horses to college with me,” she said. and enrolled in the mFa program at the Fair in nashville, tenn.; at the 69th annual her husband Paul, the grand opening was Perhaps Sam’s talent has some genetic memphis College of art. She finished her germantown Charity horse Show in ger - July 15, 2017. one of the first exhibitors at origins, as her grandmother was an artist. masters of Fine art in 2006 and got a job mantown, tn, and this fall, will be at the the little Studio is Samantha Sherry, in college she took painting as an elective at the memphis College of art, where she america’s horse in art exhibition at the whose art you may have seen at the ger - class for fun. “But i fell in love with art,” worked for several years. aQha museum in amarillo, tX. (august mantown Charity horse Show in June. she said, “which was so much better than She then got a second masters degree, 12 through october) She will have two Samantha Sherry creates semi-abstract my biochemistry class.” She began to take a master of arts in teaching, and gained shows in September. paintings of horses in oil and mixed media more art classes and fewer animal science employment in art education – as adjunct her paintings range in price from $150 – watercolor, gouache, acrylic, ink, conte classes. faculty at junior colleges, and at german - for the smaller water colors to $4500 for crayon. the paintings under glass are Breaking the news to her parents that town and Bolton high Schools. about a the larger oil paintings. Find more infor - mostly mixed media and her larger paint - she wanted to be an artist rather than a vet - year and a half ago, she quit the teaching mation about her art work at www.saman - ings are in oil. it’s obvious that she likes erinarian was somewhat disconcerting. jobs to paint full time. thasherry.com and on facebook at to play around with colors! her father was a financial planner, so he now she lives in germantown, where Samantha Sherry Fine art. “Sam” was born in Chicago, but grew was a little nervous about the change. But she has a studio in her home. She has one visit little Studio on the Square online up in north central arkansas. her parents her mother was very supportive and, in the still live in mountain home, arkansas. horse here and some horses at her parents’ at: www.littlestudioonthesquare.com find out more about fergus and Jean Abernethy at: www.fergusTheHorse.com www.midsouthhorsereview.com August, 2017 • Mid-South Horse Review 5. The Iconic racing Georgia Peach Calvin Borel By Nancy Brannon, Ph.D. stone was a recessive s i enjoy a peach from Jones or - trait and at Ellis Park chard in millington, tenn., i eat it a could not By Jennie Rees with a greater understanding of the history produce of producing this fruit and its adaption as a freestones enderson, ky. — in the tri-State southern icon. William thomas okie is as - without harea where kentucky, indiana and sistant Professor of history education at cross-pol - illinois converge, ellis Park is nestled on kennesaw State University. okie’s book, lination. the only sliver of kentucky located north The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, So rumph of the ohio river, bearing a kentucky ad - and Environment in the American South is continued dress and an indiana area code. in its 95th the story of the georgia peach and the Calvin Borel signed autographs at developing varieties of freestone peaches, year, ellis Park is the second-oldest thor - mythology that has grown up around it. Ellis Park. ( Coady Photography ) many progeny of the Chinese Cling. oughbred race - in an interview with “the author’s Cor - it was John howard hale, whom okie track in the unrestrained ner,” okie said: “the georgia Peach exam - describes as “a Connecticut yankee in king emotion after ines the interplay of the biological and commonwealth, Cotton’s Court,” who turned southern agri - only Churchill winning his first cultural features of a particular crop (espe - culture more aggressively commercial. hale kentucky derby cially the fruit’s perishability and popular - downs is its was part of the new South: a yankee entre - with Street ity) with the economic and social features of elder. preneur, growing a high value crop with the ellis Park of - Sense in 2007. a particular place (especially the cotton labor of people who were, because of their fers live thor - those would be economy and the impoverished labor force skin color and the southern political system, oughbred racing followed by 50-1 on which that economy depended).
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