Merry Legs

Merry Legs

Merry Legs with Huda Dement
Breed Tennessee Walking Horse
Discipline Show horse
Sire Black Allan
Grandsire Allendorf
Dam Nell Dement
Sex Mare
Foaled 1911
Color Bay
Breeder Albert Dement
Honors
Given foundation registration F-4

Merry Legs (1911-1932) was a Tennessee Walking Horse mare who was given foundation registration for her influence as a broodmare. She was also a successful show horse.

Life

Merry Legs was foaled in April 1911. She was a bay with sabino markings.[1] She was sired by the foundation stallion Black Allan F-1, out of the American Saddlebred mare Nell Dement, registration number F-3, and bred by the early breeder Albert Dement.[2] She was a large mare at maturity, standing 15.2 hands (62 inches, 157 cm) high and weighing 1,200 pounds (540 kg).[3] Merry Legs was a successful show horse; as a three-year-old, she won the stake class at the Tennessee State Fair. She was also successful as a broodmare, giving birth to 13 foals, among them the well-known Bud Allen, Last Chance, Major Allen, and Merry Boy.[4] For her influence on the breed, she was given the foundation number F-4 when the TWHBEA was formed in 1935.[5] She died in 1932.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.westwoodfarms.net/reference/allan.html
  2. ↑ "Biography of the Tennessee walking horse".
  3. ↑ "The American Horse".
  4. ↑ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924000436281;view=1up;seq=138;skin=mobile
  5. ↑ "Tennessee Walking horse - Merry Legs F-4 home page by Walkers West".
  6. ↑ http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/merry+legs3
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