Betty Sain was born Elizabeth Fay Sain on November 20,1942, in Manchester, Tennessee.
10 Facts About Betty Sain
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Betty Sain's parents were Virginia Wright Sain and H Pearl Sain, and she was their second child.
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In 1962, the Betty Sain family bought the weanling colt Shaker's Shocker from Tom Barham, of Lewisburg, Tennessee.
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Betty Sain trained the colt exclusively and started him under saddle herself.
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Betty Sain was expected to compete in the four-year-old division again but instead chose to enter the open stake, making her the first woman ever to enter the World Grand Championship class.
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Betty Sain was the first woman to win, and at age 23 was the youngest rider in the class.
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Betty Sain later exported horses to Israel, Mexico and several other countries, as well as many US states.
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Betty Sain rode Shaker's Shocker at University of Tennessee football games.
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Betty Sain raised goats as well as horses, and supported a controversial Tennessee law that would have enacted a bounty on the killing of coyotes.
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In 2015, Betty Sain gave a presentation on her family's history, her own experiences with Shaker's Shocker and later horses, and an overview of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed at a meeting of the Bedford County Historical Society.