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World Grand Champion in 1970 |
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ACE'S SENSATION 643336
World's Grand Champion 1970 |
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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. |
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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 circled the big Celebration ring
under the winner's spotlight. |
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Ace's Sensation was trained and
exhibited by Wink Groover, up, at Groover's Etowah,
Tennessee stables from the fall of 1966 until he was crowned Grand
Champion. |
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I never remember not loving
horses. It was born in me. I never had any other interest or
outside hobbies. When I didn't own a horse, I would buy
magazines, read books and try to learn as much as I could about
them. In my grandmothers house, there was a picture in a frame
of this beautiful horse, Ace's Sensation. I was about 30 when
she died and I got nothing of her vast estate, but as I left her
house, the day of the funeral, I did help myself to this
picture. It is in the original frame. I took if from the spot
that it sat on all my life. I was born in 1967 and she died on
Christmas day, 1990. I remember being so small that I would
stand and look up at the picture, which was high on the shelf.
The day that I "lifted" it from the shelf, I towered down over
it, by at least a couple of feet. I thought, wow, this picture
used to be so far above my head I could barely see it. I must
have looked it since I was old enough to walk. I have six
horses now, and one due on Feb 11. I was given a gift of a
beautiful black stud colt last year. He was born on 4/30/07. He
is TW. I named him Ace. He has been just wonderful. My first
baby. Like so many people, I am now 40 years old and just now
able to afford to live out all of my horse dreams. I have the
picture of Ace's Sensation, still in the original from, proudly
displaced in my home. Just thought you'd like to know,
Kacey Cox, West Point, GA |
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That is a
great story....I can "relate" 100٪, having always been
horse-crazy...and you will
have an opportunity to live out your dream. Your
new black colt sounds wonderful. Did you go to my website and
read about Ace's Sensation. If not, go here:
https://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/SLFAcesSensation.htm He
was truly a Sensation. Overcame a leg problem and won the world
championship - had the highest stud fee in the business after
that at $1,000. But strangely enough, instead of producing his
gorgeous black self in his offspring, he started producing roans
bred to black mares. Back then, everyone wanted only black, so
that hurt his breeding future and his stud fee was later reduced
to about $500. He was a truly great horse though.
If you are
ever in the Dallas, Texas area, come out and see us -- we'll
compare horsey dreams.
Mary Ellen
Areaux
Walkers West
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