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Stallions continued their dominance of the Grand Championship Stake at
the 1970 Celebration with Ace's Sensation leaving the ring on the
final night with:
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the Founder's
Challenge Trophy,
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the Musgrave
Challenge Trophy,
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the David
Williams Trophy,
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the gold and silver and the tricolor
ribbon designating him the Grand Champion Walking Horse of the
World.
Ace's Sensation was
bred by Carmage Walls of Lakeside Farms at Guntersville, Alabama.
He was sired by Sun's Ace of Spades 550265, and his dam was Nancy
Wilson C. 610204. Sun's Ace of Spades is by the Grand
Champion Midnight Sun, and his dam was Lady Brooks 11411205 by Sir
Charles Allen 350097 and he by the foundation sire Ed Nowlin F-8.
Second dam of Sun's Ace of Spades was Lady Brooks 350096, a daughter
of Major Allen 350059.
Nancy Wilson C. was a daughter of Top Wilson 400585 by the famous
Wilson's Allen 350075. Her dam was Nancy Warrior 601389 by
Faulkner's Warrior 580215 by Red Warrior 400868. Second
dam of Nancy Wilson C. was Nancy Giovanni 420450 by Giovanni 370291.
As a weanling in 1964, Ace's Sensation was purchased by Roy Davis of
Calhoun, Georgia for the reported sum of $250. He was
started under saddle at Davis' Bel Aire Stables by Billy Hiles.
Ace was shown twice as a two-year-old with Harold Kennedy riding and
won two blues. He was moved to the Wink Groover Stables
that fall where he was purchased by Groover and Buddy Black.
Ace won his first show of the 1967 season at Centerville, Tennessee,
and at that show he was purchased by S. W. Beech, Jr. of Belfast,
Tennessee and Billy Hale of Gallatin, Tennessee. At
the Celebration that year, Ace's Sensation was winner of the
Three-year-old Stallion class and the Three-year-old Championship
Stake. He was entered but did not show in the Grand
Championship event.
As a four-year-old, Ace was Champion Junior Stallion and winner of the
Junior Stake at the Celebration. He was purchased by
Randall Rollins just prior to the Grand Championship Stake at the
Celebration that year and, as a junior, tied third in the big stake.
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The aged horses
were divided by height for the first time at the 1969 Celebration.
Ace was reserve winner in the class for Stallions, Over 15.2 hands
and came back in the Championship Stake to be tied fourth.
1970 was the year for Ace's Sensation at the Celebration! He had,
at an early summer show, suffered bowed tendons but a few months
of systematic treatment, which included thirty minutes of swimming
twice each day, had him sound again by Celebration time. He
was named Grand Champion Walking Horse of the World on September
5, 1970 before the largest crowd ever assembled on the Celebration
grounds. Almost 28,000 spectators witnessed Ace as he
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