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World Grand Champion in 1944 |
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It was
a year for the mares again at the 1944 Celebration. Oakwood's
City Girl 390688, a five-year-old chestnut mare with near hind and
fore coronets, was winner that year of the Grand Championship Stake.
Sired by Wilson's Allen 350075, and out of Una Starnes 440979, City
Girl was bred by L. W. Starnes of Decherd, Tennessee. Both
City Girl and her dam, a famous brood mare of her day, had been
purchased by Frank Rambo's Oakwood Acres Stable of Fayetteville,
Tennessee and City Girl was registered in his name. |
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City
Girl's sire, Wilson's Allen was by the foundation sire Roan Allen F-38
and his dam was Birdie Messick F-86 by Allan F-1 by Allendorf.
Birdie Messick's dam was Nellie by Hal. Una Starnes, the dam of City
Girl was by Hill's Allen 390875 and he by Roan Allen F-38.
The second dam of Una Starnes was Nell Starnes by Willie R. and he by
Bob Robertson.
On April 3, 1944, City Girl was sold by Oakwood Acres to M. J. Meyer
of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Urban Small, Jr., trained and
showed City Girl that season. It has been said Small gave City
Girl one of the greatest and most faultless rides ever seen in the
show ring as she gained her great victory over the best the walking
horse world could place in the rings. She became an outstanding
star of the Breed in the middle forties under his tutelage.
Both Floyd Carothers and Urban Small, Jr. showed City Girl to many
impressive wins throughout the Mid-South. City Girl had the
distinction of winning Championships in four states in less than four
weeks time during the 1943 season. She was crowned Grand
Champion at the famous, in those days, LeBonheur Show in Memphis for
the two consecutive years of 1943 and 1944.
At the 1943 Celebration, City Girl, with Floyd Carothers showing, was
third in the preliminary event for those four years-old and over.
In the Grand Championship class that year City Girl was tied seventh,
her rider being Urban Small, Jr. Floyd Carothers showed
Strolling Jim in the big stake, and was tied second that year to the
Champion Black Angel. |
Urban Small, Jr. was riding City Girl in all events at the 1944
Celebration. He and City Girl were fourth in the class
for walking mares that year in the preliminary to the Grand
Championship Stake but came back in the main event to be declared
the Grand Champion Walking Horse of the World.
The Grand Championship Stake that year was one of the most
exciting of Celebration events, for many of the knowing horsemen
of that day had been predicting during the season that one of the
outstanding stallions would be the 1944 Grand Champion.
Midnight Sun was beginning to make his presence noted in the show
rings that year, for he was the winner of the sixth award in the
Grand Championship with Winston Wiser showing. |
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Frank
Rambo repurchased City Girl from M. J. Meyer on September 10, 1945 and
she was returned to Oakwood Acres and retired to the ranks of the
brood mares there. |
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