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Shaker's Shocker was
sired by the World Grand Champion Mack K's Handshaker, 561320, who was
Celebration winner in 1960. His dam was My Darling, 51026,
by Rooster Allen, 480426, and he by White Lightning, 370059 by
Hunter's Allen F-10.
Breeder of Shaker's Shocker was Tom Barham of Lewisburg, Tennessee,
who named him Handshaker's Nodder as a colt. Barham, a
purveyor of riding clothes, mentioned to Mrs. H. Pearl Sain, when she
was in the Barham store picking up riding clothes which daughter Betty
had ordered, that his old Hunter's Allen-bred mare had brought him a
"big, strong, dandy colt" the night before. Mrs. Sain went
with Tom Barham to see the colt and, upon returning home to Bell
Buckle, Tennessee, told Mr. Sain and Betty about it. Mr.
Sain then went back to Lewisburg and bought the colt from Barham with
the stipulation that the colt remain by side of the dam until weaning
and, at that time, Barham would deliver the weaned colt to the Sain
Stables in Bell Buckle.
Betty Sain changed the name from Handshaker's Nodder to the one she
liked better, Shaker's Shocker.
As a colt, Shocker was allowed to run to pasture until the fall of his
yearling year when he was caught-up and taught to lead. Betty
recalls that her father was in the hospital when she first started
Shocker under saddle late that fall as he was coming two, and she had
no one to hold him or help her in any way when she first started
riding him.
Prior to the 1966 Celebration Horse Show, Shaker's Shocker had been
away from home to only eight horse shows, including the previous
Celebration when he was fifth in the junior stallion event and reserve
junior champion.
His first entry into the show ring was the Baxter show at Cookeville,
Tennessee in 1964 where he was tied fourth. Next that year, as a
two-year-old, was the Goodlettsville, Tennessee show where Shocker was
out of the money. He was tied first in the two-year-old event
later that summer in Wartrace and at the Geraldine, Alabama show.
As a three-year-old, Shocker started the season with a bang by winning
the hotly contested event for junior horses at Lewisburg, Tennessee.
He was tied fifth at Lafayette, Tennessee, and, in August prior to the
1965 Celebration, tied first at the Belfast Lions Club Show at
Belfast, Tennessee.
In 1966, the only appearance made in the show ring by Shaker's Shocker
was at the Celebration Horse Show. He was winner of the event
for junior stallions, the preliminary for the Junior Walking Horse
Championship Stake, on Wednesday night. Shocker passed the
Junior Stake, however, in favor of a try for the Grand Championship.
His performance in the big stake was electrifying to the overflow
audience on stake night as he battled the odds and tradition to win
with a truly scintillating performance.
Owner-rider Betty Sain is among the youngest riders to compete in the
big stake at the Celebration. She was twenty-three years old at
the time of her big win. Betty is the only lady to win the Grand
Championship of the World.
Betty Sain is the only lady to ever ride to the winner's circle in the
Grand Championship Stake. She and Shaker's Shocker were given a
standing ovation as 1966 winners. |
