The official portrait of 2024 World Grand Champion CAVENDER was recently presented to the Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture, Dr. Charlie Hatcher.
The official World Grand Champion portrait, by photographer Shane Shiflet, commemorates CAVENDER’s first World Grand Championship win. It was unveiled in December at the TWHBEA Awards Banquet and is displayed at Ellington Center, home of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture in Nashville, TN. On hand for the presentation of the portrait were (pictured from left to right) Warren Wells, TWHNC CEO, Amanda Wright, TWHBEA Executive Committee President, Commissioner Hatcher, Andy Holt, Deputy Commissioner, Mark Farrar, TWHBEA CEO, Tim Smith, trainer and rider of the champion, Knox Blackburn, owner of EquiKnox Farm, Bruce MacDonald, owner of CAVENDER with wife, Robin (not pictured), and Jeffrey Howard, Chairman of the TWHNC Board. In addition to being displayed at the Tennessee Visitors’ Center in Portland, the Tennessee Welcome Center in Hartford, Agri-Center International in Memphis, the TWHBEA headquarters, and The Celebration main office, two additional Tennessee Welcome Centers also display the portrait. The portraits are displayed at the I-65 Welcome Center as you enter Tennessee from Alabama and at the I-155 Welcome Center in Dyersburg, TN.
(left to right) Warren Wells, Amanda Wright, Commissioner Hatcher, Deputy Commissioner Andy Holt, Mark Farrar, Tim Smith, Knox Blackburn, Bruce MacDonald, and Jeffrey Howard
