User:White Arabian Filly/Buddy Dick

Buddy Dick was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer.

Life and career

Dick was born to Columbus and Mary Dick October 7, 1939 in Science Hill, Kentucky. Dick worked in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry as a professional trainer for many years and worked with several notable horses. He started the mare Pusher's Evening Star, who won multiple World Championships in the amatuer division. In 1997 Dick moved to Columbia, Tennessee to join his son Rodney. Dick won his first World Championship in the 2000 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration on the horse Steel Connection. Dick trained Gus Malzahn, a horse named for Auburn University's head football coach. In 2016 he and Gus Malzahn won every show they entered. Buddy Dick died on September 23, 2017. He was 77 years old and was living in Shelbyville at the time of his death.

References

http://www.t-g.com/story/2446837.html

http://www.thescooponline.com/obituary-buddy-dick/

https://www.walkinghorsereport.com/news/Buddy-dick-passes-away