Horse Review • on the C Over : July 2021 the Best Carriage Dog at the Germantown Charity Horse Review Horse Show Is Corgi, Ernest Tea
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FREE digital & print HHoorrssee RReevviieeww VOL. 31 • NO. 11 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 JULY 2021 2. July, 2021 • ©Mid-South Horse review • www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THe C OVer : July 2021 The Best Carriage Dog at the Germantown Charity Horse Review Horse Show is Corgi, ernest Tea. He rides beside Laura CONTeNTS • V OL . 31 • N O. 11 Lawson in the carriage pulled by the winning horse, KT Equus Charta, LLC Barnabus. ( photo by Nancy Brannon ) Copyright 2021 6220 Greenlee #4 P.o. Box 594 arlington, tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PuBLiSHer & e DiTOr : Tom & Dr. Nancy Brannon STAFF : Andrea Gilbert WeBSiTe : www.midsouthhorsereview.com e- MAiLS : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com [email protected] P. 6 P. 6 P. 6 Jacob Parks riding Billy the Kid, Zach Parsons, riding Caterpiller, Crystal Deputy rode Snapchat to pres - SHOBA stallion, presents the flag Friday presents the flag Tuesday night at ent the flag in Wednesday’s Germantown night at GCHS. 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July, 2021 • ©Mid-South Horse review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com Book & art nook famous indi - Humidity: viduals, de - Iroquois Art scribing “louis armstrong’s The South’s brow-mopping handkerchief; Summertime James Brown as the hardest- working, hard - Blanket est-sweating roy Blount, Jr. on why the South just man in show wouldn’t be the same without sweat business.” muddy waters this year the iroquois Steeplechase auctioned off the two pieces of art painted Compiled by Nancy Brannon paid this tribute to howlin’ and donated by topper williams. the if you attended the Germantown Char - wolf: “Some closed bidding began on June 4 and was Getty images ity horse Show, June 8-12, 2021 in Ger - singers they’s accepted through the end of race day. mantown, tennessee, you know that can always count on for finding the humor cool …they too nice to sweat. But howl - topper lives on a farm in dickson, tuesday, the first day of the show was in his spot-on observations of southern life ing wolf …puts everything he’s got into tenn. with her four horses and husband rainy. Spectator attendance was fairly low and culture. on Sunday morning, after i his blues. and when he’s finished, man, Billy. She is one of the top equestrian and those in the stands were robed in rain - turned on the air conditioner in my house, he’s sweatin’.” artists in the area, and she rides as often as coats sitting under umbrellas. riders rode the windows looked just like the one in and now to the ladies: “the old saying, possible and has her colors with the hills - the versatility Challenge in the rain and this article: completely wet with “sweat” of course, is that Southern ladies don’t boro hounds and mell’s Foxhounds. top - there was some sprinkling on the Costume and dripping. i think you’ll find Blount’s sweat or even perspire, they glow.” i heard per is a regular volunteer with Saddle up! Class participants as well. Fortunately, article a good follow-up to the sweaty time that line several times at the Germantown She and Billy also volunteer with the iro - when the rain stopped the air was cooler – we all had at the 2021 Germantown Char - Charity horse Show, but many a female at quois Steeplechase and middle tennessee and comfortable. i even heard someone ity horse Show. the article is an excerpt the show was certainly sweating, albeit in Pony Club horse trials. comment tuesday evening, “it’s chilly.” from the book, S Is for Southern: A Guide a very dignified manner. the painting below of mr. hot Stuff that certainly wasn’t the case for the to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco , Finally, Blount turns to “all the South - and his groom is based on a photograph rest of the week. local weather experts published in 2017 by david diBenedetto ern things connected with humidity: taken by Brenda Black at the iroquois. predicted rain for the whole week, but that and the editors of Garden & Gun. porches, juleps, seersucker, halter tops, the happened mainly in northern mississippi, Blount begins by stating “in classic blessed sweetness of a breeze (we were all with lots of flooding. the horse show was Southern fiction, you won’t find humid - praying for a breeze at the GChS), and the spared much of the rain. then, on Friday, ity….what you will find is sweat.” he il - expression ‘freshen up’. the weather changed again – to the usual lustrates this by quoting from eudora “humidity humanizes the air, drawing southern summertime heat with high hu - welty, tennessee williams, and william out pheromones, bacteria, semidigested midity, which felt like 100% the air was so Faulkner, where sweat is described as gravy, gossip – the funk of what people saturated. So we were all wearing blan - “sweet, sharp horse sweat.” breathe of each other. today air condition - kets of sweaty clothing because there was “when you sweat into Southern air, it ing drastically limits the impact of humid - no breeze to air dry us. Same was true for is already close to sopping,” Blount con - ity. So we’re all more comfortable.” Saturday. But that’s what we have come to trasts to the “dry heat” of western states and after sweating profusely at the expect in the summer in the memphis like arizona. “Some will maintain that hu - horse show, it was good to ride home in area, and we all endured. midity makes heat more bearable because the air-conditioned car. early the next week, i ran across this it brings on the sweat. But no. …humidity read the full article at Garden and Gun : timely article from a June 2018 issue of makes sweat stick.” https://gardenandgun.com/articles/humid - Garden & Gun by roy Blount, Jr., who we then Blount illustrates his point with ity-souths-summertime-blanket/ Check out Fergus the Horse at: www.fergusthehorse.com. www.midsouthhorsereview.com • ©Mid-South Horse review • July, 2021 5. Samantha Sherry Art one of the vendors at the Germantown Charity horse Show was Samantha Sherry, whose art we have featured in this publication previously (2017). Samantha had quite a few new horse-themed pieces on display, and here’s a sampling. She said 2020 had been tough on her with gallery cancellations due to Covid-19. But, hopefully, this year many of her horse por - traits will find new homes. 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