©Voice, August/September 2007

• Fact or Fiction?
  The Celebration is the longest continuously running event in the State of Tennessee.
  
  Fact – The Celebration has not missed a year since its debut in 1939, making it the longest continuously running event in Tennessee.
  

• Fact or Fiction?
  Mules were once regulars at the Celebration.
  
  Fact – During its first several years, the Celebration did include a mule show.
  
  
• Fact or Fiction?
  Increased animation has always been a goal when training walking horses.
  
  Fiction – The first formal efforts toward training the walking horse were aimed at simply capturing its natural gaits rather than manipulating them.
  
  
• Fact or Fiction?
  Merry Go Boy’s dam was shown as a Saddlebred.
  
  Fact – By the Saddlebred stallion Giovanni, Wiser’s Dimples had been shown as a Saddlebred.
  

• Fact or Fiction?
  Until relatively recently, our industry has been united in its view of the walking horse as primarily a show horse.
  
  Fiction – As early as the 1940s our breed was divided between those that felt the walking horse should be promoted as a pleasure horse and those that felt the walking horse’s greatest hope was as a show horse.