Winston Wiser

Winston Wiser
Born (1910-01-23)January 23, 1910
Bedford County, Tennessee
Died March 31, 1961(1961-03-31) (aged 51)
Cause of death Gunshot
Residence Shelbyville, Tennessee
Occupation Tennessee Walking Horse trainer
Known for Winning 5 World Grand Championships
Spouse(s) Katherine Morris
Children 3

Winston Wiser (1910–1961) was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer who won five World Grand Championships on three separate horses.

Life

Wiser was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on January 23, 1910, to James Daniel Wiser and Laura Ferrell Wiser. He later married Katherine Morris and the couple had 3 children.[1]

Career

Wiser began his career training horses on his family's farm in Wartrace, Tennessee, where his stables, Wiser's Walking Horse Stables, were later located.[2] Wiser won a total of 5 World Grand Championships at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in his career, beginning with the mare Black Angel in 1943.[3] Wiser trained Merry Go Boy, a stallion, to repeat World Grand Championships in 1947 and 1948. Wiser won his fourth World Grand Championship on Go Boy's Shadow, a son of Merry Go Boy, in 1955. The next year, 1956, he and Go Boy's Shadow won the class again. It proved to be Wiser's final championship before his death.[4]

Death

Wiser was shot to death by his then-16-year-old daughter Judy the last day of March, 1961, during a family argument at their home in Shelbyville, Tennessee.[5] A judge later ruled that the pistol shooting was justifiable homicide, as Wiser had threatened Judy and her mother. Wiser and Katherine had been separated.[6] Wiser was 51.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/winston-wiser_9104310
  2. ↑ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89031311962;view=1up;seq=136;skin=mobile
  3. ↑ http://www.twhbea.com/voice/Features/Wartrace.htm
  4. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19560903&id=UzEeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3b4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2779,404053&hl=en
  5. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19610401&id=kbQeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ktEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4592,201714&hl=en
  6. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19610407&id=NYYwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QfoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4575,908211&hl=en
  7. ↑ http://www.si.com/vault/1961/04/24/581137/a-roundup-of-the-sports-information-of-the-week
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