TWH Champions

Midnight Sun

1940-1965

World Grand Champion

1955 1956

Sex: Stallion
Color: Black
Markings: None
Foaled: June 8, 1940

"It was a big horse that lay covered in the hallway of the barn at Harlinsdale Farm, Franklin, Tenn., the afternoon of November 7, 1965. Indeed, he was a big horse in every way - in stature, name, fame, and posterity.

Midnight Sun, a young 25, had become a legend years before his death that Indian summer afternoon. On his record, he was the big horse of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed. He was the first stallion to become world champion of his kind. That was in 1945 and 1946 at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Then he sired horses that were grand champions there seven times; grand-sired the supreme winner five times; and was the great-grandsire of one year's champion. On only four occasions since 1949, have horses not descended from Midnight Sun, in a straight male line, been world champions of this breed."

Western Horseman Magazine, April, 1966

Midnight Sun's Pedigree

Midnight Sun's Progeny

It would go too far to list all of Midnight Sun's foals: 2,686 in total have been registered with the TWHBEA, the following of which became World Grand Champion:

Midnight Sun

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