# Merry Legs

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**Merry Legs** (1911–1932) was a [Tennessee Walking Horse](/source/Tennessee_Walking_Horse) [mare](/source/Mare) who was given foundation registration for her influence as a [broodmare](/source/Broodmare). She was also a successful [show horse](/source/Show_horse).

## Life

Merry Legs was foaled in April 1911. She was a bay with [sabino](/source/Sabino_(horse)) markings.[1] She was sired by the foundation stallion [Black Allan](/source/Black_Allan_(horse)) F-1, out of the [American Saddlebred](/source/American_Saddlebred) mare Nell Dement, registration number F-3, and bred by the early breeder [Albert Dement](/source/Albert_Dement).[2] She was a large mare at maturity, standing 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](/source/Tennessee_State_Fair). She was also successful as a broodmare, giving birth to 13 [foals](/source/Foal), 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](/source/TWHBEA) was formed in 1935.[5] She died in 1932.[6]

## References

1. ["Westwood Farms Reference: Allan"](http://www.westwoodfarms.net/reference/allan.html)

1. Green, Ben A. (1960). ["Biography of the Tennessee walking horse"](https://books.google.com/books?id=zjhWAAAAYAAJ)

1. Ward, Kathleen Rauschl (1991). [*The American Horse*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0g1JAAAAYAAJ). ISBN 9780962893100.

1. [*The light horse breeds: Their origin, characteristics, and principal uses*](http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924000436281;view=1up;seq=138;skin=mobile). A. S. Barnes. 1960.

1. ["Tennessee Walking horse - Merry Legs F-4 home page by Walkers West"](http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/MerryLegsF4.htm)

1. ["Merry Legs Tennessee Walking Horse"](http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/merry+legs3)

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