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4A —Bedford County Post, Wednesday, August 28, 2024 him what he was doing. She told him he didn’t need the old mare and that it would never get in foal. “She got foaled to Jus- ti fi ed and look what hap- pened. There won’t be any more direct Pusher mares.” That class helped to keep the Baums from being so nervous about Justi fi ed Honors. At the end of the night Justi fi ed Honors and John Allan Callaway would take an- other step closer to a re- cord fourth World Grand Championship winning Section B of the Walking Stallions Five Years and Over class. “I was more nervous this time around,” Lisa said. “For three years I have tried to sit in the same spot. We have in the same box for years. “When we sat down to watch the class this year we realized we had swapped chairs. Jim said we can’t do this. We have to do it the way we have always done it so we got up and swapped really quick.” It was their third straight win in the class and they retired three challenge trophies which have to be won three times - the Ann Jones Poore and Ebony’s Time Around Memorial Chal- lenge Trophy, the Missis- sippi Charity Horse Show Memorial Challenge Tro- phy and The Dark Spirit’s Rebel Memorial Chal- lenge Trophy. It sets up a confronta- tion in the World Grand Championship class the fi nal Saturday night of the show with Caven- der, the winner of Sec- tion A of the Walking Stallions, Five Years and Over class. Tim Smith is the trainer for Robin and Bruce MacDonald of Shelbyville. Cavender was the Junior World Grand Champion at The Celebration in 2023. Neither horse has been shown extensively this year. Justi fi ed Hon- ors has made several ex- hibitions at shows, but this was the fi rst time Callaway had shown in a regular class. Cavender and Smith are undefeated in four classes this show season. Both were unanimous choices of the fi ve-judge panel for their classes. A fourth win in “The Big Stake” for Justi fi ed Honors would make his- tory since no horse has won World Grand Cham- pionship more than three times. Justi fi ed Honors also made a splash as a sire in the National Futurity Fall Weanlings class Wednes- day night. Justi fi ed Hon- ors was the sire for the top three places – Mona Lisa Mona Lisa and han- dler Lynn Womack won for owners Dr. Roger Richards and Bobby Joe Jones, Rhythm Na- tion and handler Robert Nelms were reserve for Link and Nelms and Jus- tify That was guided to third by Ronald Morton for owner Franklin Har- vey. “We are extremely pleased,” Lisa said. “We didn’t breed like an open book. We held it back to 50 mares that fi rst year. We didn’t overload.” The Baum fam- ily shows multiple horses every night of the show which keeps them busy. Their grandson Bentlee made his Celebration de- but in the show ring this year and at the age of six walked out with his fi rst Celebration ribbon. “He says he is going to win 2,000 blue ribbons,” Lisa said. “Before the show Bentlee was eating cookies and coloring in coloring book. “I was pacing and walking and nervous. The kids don’t get nervous.” Lisa is going to try to be calm as she rides her other horses and deals with the long wait until Saturday night. “We are going to be asked about Justi fi ed Honors every hour by ev- erybody,” Lisa said. “Ev- erybody is excited to see him. We are praying that fourth win happens. The highs are what keep you going.” Laity Club To meet The Bedford County Laity Club will meet, Sun- day, Sept. 8th at First United Methodist Church at 6 p.m., meal to be fur- nished. Old Time Harvest Days Wartrace Old Time Harvest Days will be held October 5 at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wartrace Old Time Harvest Days Main Street, Historic Down- town Wartrace Celebrating Fall with Demonstrators, Craft Vendors, Food Trucks, a Chili Cookoff, Harvest Dessert Baking Contest, Kid Zone and much more. Starts at 9am. Retired Teachers meeting Retired Teachers’ meeting on Wednesday, September 4 at 11 a.m. at Emmy’s Restaurant (formerly Urban Planta- tion. Our speaker will be Lieutenant Chris Cook from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Department. Chris will be describing a new initiative, “A Pathway Back,” an educational program that is showing success with female in- mates. Looking forward to seeing everyone on September 4, 2024. Flat Creek Monthly potluck Please come out to join us on Saturday Sep- tember 7 at 6 p.m. at the Flat Creek Community Center for our monthly potluck meal and enter- tainment. We are hav- ing Jim Jolliffe and Bob Fitzgerald this month to bring their high energy selection of 60s and 70s music, they will do re- quests as well, for our en- tertainment.We will eat at 6 p.m., and the entertain- ment will commence at 7 p.m. As always, there is no cover charge, but we will pass the hat for the band. We hope to see you there. Address of the Community Center is 115 New Herman Road, Shelbyville TN 37160 Community Events Happy Birthday Southern Cup!! They celebrated their 8th “birthday” in business in Shelbyville on Saturday, August 24. To celebrate, they gave back by giving a portion of Saturday’s proceeds to a local non-profit that helps special needs and disabled individuals experience the outdoors hunting and fishing- Gateway Outdoors! Together, as a community, The Southern Cup was able to bless Gateway Outdoors with $1,000!! Thank you Dumasane Consultation for helping the Bedford County Post celebrate their one year anniversary. 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Animal control opens intake for a few days and keeps a few kennels open for public safety is- sues but it doesn’t take long to fi ll them up.” Lowery said the city and the humane society are also at capacity. “There is no place for these animals,” Low- ery said. “We along with New Destiny Dog Rescue Shelbyville Animal Con- trol and the Shelbyville- Bedford County Humane Society have joined to- gether to try to help the county. “Maybe somebody just needs a bag of dog food. We have all kinds of outreach programs. We just received a big do- nation from Rutherford Paws. We fi lled out truck up. We are willing to help wherever we can to try to keep that pet in a home.” Shelter Continued from Page 1