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Tuesday, July 15 2014 / Published in Notes from the Field, Z-Blogs

The Amazing Kim Walnes

Kim and The Gray Goose at the Luhmuhlen World Championships in 1982. They won individual and team bronze medals. Gray was the only horse from the United States to bring home an individual medal. Photo by Mary Phelps

Kim and The Gray Goose at the Luhmuhlen World Championships in 1982. They won individual and team bronze medals. Gray was the only horse from the United States to bring home an individual medal.
Photo by Mary Phelps

I remember in the 1980′s (yes, I’m giving away my age…) when my friends and I watched Kim during the retirement ceremony  of her horse, The Gray Goose at the Kentucky Horse Park. There was a jump course set up for them so that Gray could do his final public performance. I looked over the course and very carefully focussed the long lens of my camera (you HAD to carefully focus in those days before digital cameras – you had a limited number of pictures you could take with a roll of film) on an impressive oxer that surely they would jump, and they would be coming right toward me so it should be an impressive photo

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Article excerpt posted on Sidelinesnews.com from Notes From The Field.

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