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[Editorial]
[Featured
Breed]
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Khemosabi then ventured out to the 1969 summer show circuit right alongside his mother. Once there, Ruth Husband insisted that trainer Mo Morris show Khemosabi in his class. In a field of 25 contenders somehow Khemosabi managed to take home the blue ribbon. Everyone agreed that it was not just the outer appearance, but his personality that made everyone fall in love with him. He posed for photographs and was friendly to everyone. After the big win, Khemosabi's promotional campaign started up. He was advertised in trade magazines with a comic rendition of "The Lone Ranger" illustrated by Karen Haus Grandpre. In the comic strip, he battled evil forces with Ruth as his sidekick. The "William Tell Overture" was taken as Khemosabi's theme song. With a flip of a switch turning the song on Khemosabi went into action. He would prance around and flag his tail to the amusement of his many admirers. Khemosabi's show results increased. In a 2 year span (1970-1972), he was a Canadian Top Ten stallion and the Champion Stallion in the 1972 Mid-Summer Classic held in Monroe, Washington. Not only was this show impressive because of his show presence, but his successful breeding also became evident. In the same show, one of his foals, then three years old, took reserve champion stallion After this show, Khemosabi's owners trusted him to be trained by Tom Bason who had shown him in the last two very successful years. At first there was no good communication, but then they clicked. Bason claims that Khemosabi was intelligent and easy to train. Half way through 1972 Bert
Husband became very ill. The Husband family had to lease out all
of its horses, including Khemosabi. Bason and Khemosabi headed to
West Virginia to a breeder and to the circuit in the East. Khemosabi
had already shown his success as a driving horse and Tom chose to start
him under saddle in English pleasure. He was not disappointed.
Khemosabi still continued to excel in halter, but he obviously showed promise
in more disciplines. At the 1972 Buckeye Show in Ohio, he took another
championship and later that year placed second at the U.S. National stallion
championship.
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