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Setting Sun was the
first of many winners for the veteran trainer and showman, Sam
Paschal, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Setting Sun, like only a
few of our World's Grand Champions, was a winner through most of his
lifetime. He was sired by Midnight Sun and was out of Alice
Carver by Sam Carver and was foaled in 1952 near Carthage, Tennessee.
W. H. Webb of Carthage, Tennessee was breeder of record on Setting
Sun.
His first showing at the Celebration was in the yearling division of
the Breeders' Open Foal Show in 1953 where he was awarded Reserve in
the Yearling Championship.
Earl Woodward of Carthage bought Setting Sun as a yearling and gave
one-half interest in him to the late Gid Hackett, also of Carthage, to
work, train and show him. Hackett made the horse and went
on to win the World's Champion Two-Year-Old Stake at the Celebration
and the first leg on the Ben Howell and Son Challenge Trophy offered
for the first time that year to the winner of the two-year-old stake.
The following year during the Celebration Horse Show, Setting Sun was
shown again by Gid Hackett to win Reserve Junior to the Champion Go
Boy's Shadow. After the Celebration, Sam Paschal, who had
watched Setting Sun's development, saw the possibilities of this
outstanding horse becoming one of the greats of the Breed, convinced
M. M. Bullard of Newport, Tennessee of this greatness and Mr. Bullard
bought Setting Sun from Hackett and Woodward.
Under the tutelage of Sam Paschal, Setting Sun won Junior
Championships at the American Royal and Dixie Jubilee and was Grand
Champion of the Tennessee State Fair as a four-year-old. In
1957, he was undefeated during the show season and was named Reserve
Champion of the World at the National Celebration.
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