Bud Dunn
Emerson “Bud” Dunn was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer from Kentucky. Dunn trained and showed Tennessee Walking Horses for 50 years. He won two World Grand Championships and 20 World Championships with various horses. Dunn died of a heart attack in January 2001, aged 82.
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Emerson “Bud” Dunn was a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer from Kentucky. Dunn trained and showed Tennessee Walking Horses for 50 years. He won two World Grand Championships and 20 World Championships with various horses. Dunn died of a heart attack in January 2001, at the age of 82. He was inducted into the Tennessee walking horse Hall of Fame in 1987. His son Steve also became a successful horse trainer, winning two World Championships, the first before his father won one. At the time of Bud Dunn’s death, Steve was the only father and son to win the Tennessee Grand Championships within the Walking Horse industry within three years of his father’s death. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Sheffield, Alabama, following complications from knee replacement surgery brought about by two heart attacks following two years of living in the hospital.
He had three children: Billie Ann by his first wife; David and Steven by his second wife Charlotte Blythe Dunn, and no children with his third wife Elaine. Steve Dunn’s winning horses were Motown Magic in 1989, and Out On Parole in 2002, and Bud and Steve won his first World Championship in 1992, three years after his son’s first win. He died on January 11, 2001, aged 82, following two heart Attacks following two weeks of living with the complications from heart attacks brought about about about two years after he lived in the Hospital for Sickle Cell Research in Birmingham, Alabama. His funeral was held in Florence, Alabama on January 14, 2001.
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