# Merry Walker

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**Merry Walker** (foaled 1939) was a [Tennessee Walking Horse](/source/Tennessee_Walking_Horse) mare. She gave birth to the show horses [Go Boy's Shadow](/source/Go_Boy's_Shadow) and Rodger's Perfection, who won three World Grand Championships between them.

## Life

Merry Walker was foaled June 18, 1939, in [Murfreesboro, Tennessee](/source/Murfreesboro,_Tennessee). She was a [black](/source/Black_(horse)) mare with white hind socks, bred by Harold Earthman. She was sired by the Tennessee Walking Horse [stallion](/source/Stallion) Merry Boy and out of a [Standardbred](/source/Standardbred) mare, Earthman's Queen Mary.[1] In 1941 Merry Walker was sold to a Texas owner for $500. Merry Walker was bought by H. Thompson, father to [World Grand Champion](/source/Tennessee_Walking_Horse_National_Celebration#World_Grand_Championship) trainer Vic Thompson, in 1944. The same year, he showed her in the [Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration](/source/Tennessee_Walking_Horse_National_Celebration). She placed fifth in the World Grand Championship.[1]

Merry Walker [foundered](/source/Laminitis) before being sold to Dr. Porter Rodgers of [Searcy, Arkansas](/source/Searcy,_Arkansas), in 1945, but still brought a price of $2,000. She gave birth to eight foals in her life: Sun's Dark Lady, Merry Earthman, [Go Boy's Shadow](/source/Go_Boy's_Shadow), Anne's Merry, Rodgers' Perfection, Shadow's Sis W, Sensational Sue R, and Merry Walker's Doll.[1] Merry Walker's son by [Merry Go Boy](/source/Merry_Go_Boy), Go Boy's Shadow, won the Two-Year-Old World Championship in the Celebration. In 1955, he won the World Grand Championship and repeated the win a year later.[1][2] Another of Merry Walker's sons, Rodgers' Perfection, won the World Grand Championship in 1959. He was sired by Midnight Mack K.[3] A daughter of Merry Walker, Shadow's Sis W, foaled the 1978 World Grand Champion Mark of Carbon.[1]

Merry Walker is the only Tennessee Walking Horse [broodmare](/source/Broodmare) to ever produce two World Grand Champions.[4] It is also significant to note that the winning offspring were sired by different stallions.[1]

## References

1. ["Tennessee Walking horse – Merry Walker home page by Walkers West"](http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/MerryWalker.htm). Retrieved 23 June 2016.

1. ["Go Boy's Shadow home page by Walkers West"](http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/GoBoysShadow.htm). Retrieved 23 June 2016.

1. Green, Ben A. (1 January 1960). ["Biography of the Tennessee walking horse"](https://books.google.com/books?id=zjhWAAAAYAAJ). Parthenon Press. Retrieved 23 June 2016. – via Google Books.

1. Harris, Moira C. & Langrish, Bob (1 January 2006). ["America's Horses: A Celebration of the Horse Breeds Born in the U. S. A."](https://books.google.com/books?id=-M-lPnkMRe8C&pg=PA199&dq=Merry%20Walker%20Tennessee%20Walking%20Horse). Globe Pequot. Retrieved 23 June 2016. – via Google Books.

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