Tennessee Walking Horses 1949

Beautiful and elegant Tennessee Walking Horses are featured in this old 16 mm film of a competition in, we believe, South Carolina. Bob Jenkins and Neil Fischer, Sr. of Savannah, Georgia can be seen competing in this film from 1949.

Robert "Bob" and Edith Jenkins of Savannah, Georgia were friends with Neil Fischer whom they met because Neil's Aunt Florence Gildea had a horse stable and riding academy in Savannah at the time. The Jenkins also knew the family of Mary Saraf and her daughter Mary Ann. The Jenkins introduced Neil and Mary Ann and they married in 1951.

Neil is showing the grey horse and Bob is on the dark brown horse. They are in the same shot at about 5:34 into the film.

Growing up none of us kinds knew that our Daddy (Neil Joseph Fischer) trained or showed horses until one day we found a pair of riding pants in his dresser drawer and asked what in the heck they were.