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Confederate Hills Farm
Winchester,
Tennessee
Billy &
Mary Taylor
WELCOME!
When Billy Taylor moved back to Middle
Tennessee from Memphis following a job change, he decided
that he would once again breed Tennessee Walkers. Billy
borrowed the foundation stallion belonging to his co-worker,
Leon Oliver, to begin his breeding program. Red Bud's Rascal
was happy to cooperate with Billy's plan, and in the spring
of 1979 April Flower T. foaled a strong sorrel filly.
Pleased with her conformation, disposition, and gait, Billy
named her Red Bud's Lady Bug. With her blending of a
variety of bloodlines, Red Bud's Lady Bug #791458 had
only one cross to Midnight Sun through Duke of Dearmanville.
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Paiges Echo |
When Lady was old enough to go into
production, Billy took her to Cornersville, Tennessee to
cross with a line-bred Merry Boy stallion named Mark's
Crackerjack. Crackerjack sired two fillies out of Lady Bug,
Taylor's June Girl and Taylor's Merry Girl.
These three
mares formed the nucleus of Billy Taylor's breeding
program featuring rare foundation bloodlines. Both
Crackerjack daughters proved to be excellent trail mares
when started under saddle, and continued to prove
their value as they went into production.
When Paige's Echo returned to the Taylor
farms, he was already in his late twenties. His health was
good, but his years were limited. In 1993, Billy bred the
old sabino horse to Lady Bug. Doing this involved
line-breeding of both distaff lines. The following year, a sabino colt with plenty of color hit the ground. |
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This colt,
Society's Dan Allen, came looking for people to pay
attention to him, insisting that he be noticed. After the
death of Paige's Echo, at age 31, Billy Taylor decided
to keep Dan Allen as a replacement for his sire.
Echo bred horses are
different from any Tennessee Walking Horses that I have ever
owned. People that have owned horses all their lives say the
same thing. They are horses with a good mind, they have the
ability to learn and also the desire, they seem to want to
please their owners/trainers. Also they typically have an
excellent natural four beat gait with good overstride.
Echo
bred horses are making a name for themselves as excellent
pleasure horses in several other states as well as Tennessee.
They are typically good using horses like our forefathers bred
in the early 1900's. |
Society's Dan Allen
photo courtesy of Mike Stephens |
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Currently
Available
Billy Taylor
931-967-9621
Confederatehills@wmconnect.com
Winchester, Tennessee
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In the early 1900's, Grey
John breeding was very popular in this area. Mr. Luna, the man
that owned Buford F-11 and Bramlett F-9, was a school teacher
and taught school in the Hurdlow community in Moore County and
he also taught school at Cowan, which is in Franklin County.
He had one or both of these stallions with him at this time.
Because of their popularity as breeding horses, this area
became infused with Grey John blood through these great
stallions. Jake Reese, a black man from Moore County, bred
mares to these stallions at this time. Even though Mr. Reese
has been deceased for approximately twenty years, his Grey
John based breeding program is still impacting the Walking
Horse breed through such popular stallions as Generator's
Silver Dollar.
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Paige’s Echo |
The NWHA Exchange talks
about one of the Echo bred horses raised on the Taylor's
farms, Echo's High Society. Of this horse, the Exchange says, "
He comes from the well known and increasingly popular Danny
Taylor farm in Winchester, Tennessee.
He gaits beautifully.
Solid four beat timing with good back end and a neat little flippy front. I had an opportunity to ride this horse
for several weeks and I guarantee the following: 1) the horse
walks 2) you will never, EVER find a more sensible and laid
back horse of any gender." |
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Franne Brandon, popular
author writing for the Canadian Walking Horse News and Walking
Horse Journal, writes, "After Midnight Sun and Merry Go Boy
became the first two stallions to win Celebration World Grand
Championships, their offspring were in great demand. The
preferred cross became a Midnight Sun on a Merry Go Boy or
Merry Boy bred mare, or variations of this. In the past
couple of decades, though, with the emergence of the Pride and
Pusher lines as the two most prominent within the breed, the
"royal cross" became null and void, as both the lines are in
themselves Midnight Sun-Merry Go Boy crosses. Other lines,
though rare, are still available. One such line traces to the flatshod World Champion Society Man through a grandson named
Paige's Echo. Only a handful of these Echo stallions are
scattered across the country, but they are siring, in limited breedings, excellent trail horses and young show prospects
with intelligence, trainability, and beauty. Representing the
rare non-Allan lines of Red Eagle F-61 and the Grey
John foundation horses, as well as non-Sun Wilson's Allen
strains, these Echo stallions could well be the next "royal
cross" in taking the Tennessee Walking Horse breed to a new
plateau of equine excellence."
Tennessee Walking Horse
Heritage Entrance
All horses advertised on this site are
being sold directly by the Owner or Agent, they are the sole responsible
party regarding each sale or horse. Buyers are responsible for verifying
the soundness & suitability of any horse listed. Kathy, Walking-Horse.com,
Tennessee Walking Horse OnLine, or our agents are not responsible or liable for any
misrepresentation associated with any horse or sale.
Updated
02/03/2010
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