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"Bazy" Tankersley
Elderly woman holding two gray horses, one on each side
Bazy Tankersley in 2003
Born
Ruth Elizabeth McCormick

(1921-03-07)March 7, 1921
Chicago, Illinois
DiedFebruary 5, 2013(2013-02-05) (aged 91)
Tucson, Arizona
Other namesnickname "Bazy", surnames Miller, Tankersley
Occupation(s)Arabian horse breeder, newspaper publisher
Known forOwner of Al-Marah Arabians
Spouse(s)M. Peter Miller, Jr.; Garvin E. "Tank" Tankersley
ChildrenMark Miller, Kristie Miller, Tiffany Tankersley; stepchildren Anne Tankersley Sturm and Garvin Tankersley Jr.
Parent(s)Joseph Medill McCormick, Ruth Hanna McCormick
RelativesMark Hanna, Robert R. McCormick

Ruth "Bazy" Tankersley (March 7, 1921 – February 5, 2013) was an American newspaper publisher and a noted breeder of Arabian horses. Born into the McCormick family, she was raised amongst powerful Republican political figures. She was the daughter of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was Progressive Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick, who served in the United States House of Representatives, making Tankersley a granddaughter of the late Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio. Although Tankersley was involved with conservative Republican causes as a young woman, including a friendship with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, her Progressive roots reemerged in later years; by the 21st century, she had become a strong supporter of environmental causes and backed Barack Obama for president in 2008. She became a patron of many charities. Her death in 2013 was attributed to Parkinson's disease.

Joseph McCormick died when Tankersley was a child. Her mother remarried and moved the family to the southwestern United States where Tankersley spent considerable time riding horses. As a young woman, she had a journalism career, beginning at age 18 as a reporter for a newspaper published by her mother. She later ran a newspaper in Illinois with her first husband, Peter Miller, then became the publisher of the conservative Washington Times-Herald from 1949 to 1951. That paper was owned by her uncle, the childless Robert R. McCormick, who viewed Tankersley as his heir until the two had a falling out over editorial control of the newspaper and her relationship with Garvin Tankersley, who became her second husband. She wrote for the Washington Post after it absorbed the Times-Herald, then shifted her career to become a full-time horse breeder.

Tankersley lived around horses much of her life and became particularly enamored of the Arabian horse breed as a child when she lived in the southwest and had a part-Arabian to ride. She purchased her first purebred when she was 19. She set up her horse breeding operation, Al-Marah Arabians, in Tucson, Arizona in 1941, and took her horses and farm name with her whenever she moved. While she lived in Illinois, she purchased her foundation sire, Indraff, in 1947. Upon her move to the Washington, DC area, her Al-Marah operation relocated to Montgomery County, Maryland where she raised horses for over 25 years. She ultimately returned to Tucson in the 1970s, and in addition to horse breeding, she set up an apprenticeship program at Al-Marah to train young people for jobs in the horse industry. She also developed a second horse operation, the Hat Ranch, located near Flagstaff, Arizona. Over the course of her career, she bred over 2,800 registered Arabians, and also was one of the largest importers of horses from the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England. Upon her death in 2013, she bequeathed the Tucson ranch to the University of Arizona and the Hat Ranch to a conservation trust. In her final years, she downsized her horse breeding operation by selling many of her horses, and the remainder went to her son, Mark Miller, who moved the Al-Marah Arabian farm name and horse operation to his home base near Clermont, Florida.

Personal life and family

See also: McCormick family
Ruth Hanna McCormick

Tankersley was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 7, 1921.[1] Her nickname "Bazy" was given to her when she was a toddler, based on how she pronounced the word "baby".[2] Her father was Joseph Medill McCormick, part-owner of the Chicago Tribune and a United States Senator from Illinois. Her mother, Ruth Hanna McCormick, was the daughter of Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio,[3] and was a member of Congress from Illinois,[4] serving as a Progressive Republican.[5]

When Tankersley was four, her father died. His death was a suicide,[6] believed to be in part linked to his defeat for renomination in 1924.[7] Her mother remarried in 1932.[5] Her stepfather was Albert Gallatin Simms, a Congressman from New Mexico,[4] lawyer, and banker.[6] Tankersley moved to the Southwest with her mother.[8] She spent part of her childhood on a dairy farm in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then on a 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) ranch in Colorado that her mother purchased in 1937.[5] She attended a boarding school in Virginia and spent summers in the West. Her love of horses in general and the Arabian horse in particular came from those years: "Right away, my stepfather bought me a cow pony, and I wore it out ... So my mother got me a 3/4 Arabian that I couldn't wear out."[2] She also showed horses on the East Coast in the 1930s.[8]

Tankersley did not complete high school,[1] but studied genetics for two years at Vermont's Bennington College between 1939 and 1941, without completing a degree. "I virtually had no education," she later stated.[9] Her interest in Arabian horses led her to meet several major breeders of the time, including Jimmie Dean of Traveler's Rest, Roger Selby, W.R. Brown and Carl Raswan.[8]

Tankersley married Maxwell Peter Miller, Jr. in 1941.[1][10] She and Miller lived in Tucson for two years,[11] where she developed a deep love for Arizona.[9] They then moved to Chicago for a time, and subsequently to her mother's Colorado ranch, which Bazy ran, and then moved back to Illinois in 1947 prior to relocating to Washington, DC.[11] The marriage ended in 1951, when she divorced Miller to marry Garvin E. "Tank" Tankersley, an editor at the Washington Times-Herald.[6] Garvin Tankersley had started his career as a photographer and became managing editor, leaving the paper in 1952, later returning to the newspaper business as a director of the Tribune Company of Chicago from 1973 to 1981.[12] The couple met while Bazy was running the Times-Herald, but her uncle considered Garvin Tankersley, who was from a poor Lynchburg, Virginia family, to be of unsuitable social status for Bazy,[9] and he also disapproved of her divorce. Bazy saw the latter stance as hypocritical, given McCormick's own complicated personal life.[13] McCormick's attempts to end the relationship ultimately prompted the couple to elope.[9] They were married for 35 years, until Garvin's death in 1997.[14]

From her two marriages, Tankersley had three biological children: a son, Mark Miller, born in 1947,[10] and two daughters, Kristie Miller and Tiffany Tankersley (1970–2012). She also had two stepchildren, Anne Tankersley Sturm and Garvin Tankersley Jr.[15] At the time of her death, she had six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.[14]

Newspaper career

Robert R. McCormick

Tankersley's first job in journalism was at age 18 when she was a reporter for the Rockford Star, published by her mother.[11] She gained experience running a newspaper in 1946 when she and Peter Miller purchased the LaSalle Post-Tribune in La Salle, Illinois and the Peru News-Herald, in Peru, Illinois, merging the papers to create the Daily News-Tribune.[16][a] Her uncle, "Colonel" Robert R. McCormick, then appointed her as the publisher of the family-owned Washington Times-Herald in 1949.[1] having purchased it following the 1948 death of Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson, his first cousin.[13] Tankersley was 28 at the time and given the title of Vice-President.[11] Robert McCormick had no children of his own, "doted" on Bazy,[6] and considered her the heir to his newspaper company.[13]

The Times-Herald, described as "isolationist and archconservative,"[17] was known for sensationalism.[6] McCormick wanted Bazy to use the paper to create "an outpost of American principles."[18] In 1948, Tankersley also dabbled in campaign politics, organizing "Twenties for Taft" clubs to support the 1948 Presidential campaign of Robert A. Taft,[6] following in the footsteps of her mother Ruth, who was the first woman to manage a presidential campaign, the 1940 and 1944 efforts of Thomas E. Dewey.[19] Tankersley later described herself as a friend of Senator Joseph McCarthy. During Tankersley's time as publisher of the Times-Herald, the paper was embroiled in two controversies related to McCarthy, one involving attacks intended to help unseat Democratic Senator Millard E. Tydings in 1950, and the other a lawsuit brought by Drew Pearson over what he said was a conspiracy to smear his reputation.[6] In the Tydings case, a composite photograph created by Garvin that made Tydings appear to be meeting with a communist party leader was a factor in Tydings losing his race. It also brought Tankersley and her paper to the attention of the United States Senate, where the paper's treatment of Tydings was viewed as a violation of "simple decency and honesty" and "a shocking abuse of the spirit and intent of the First Amendment of the Constitution."[18]

Tankersley was publisher of the newspaper for only 19 months. By April 1951, McCormick and Tankersley developed differences of opinions over both the newspaper and her relationship with Garvin Tankersley. "I understood when I went to the Times-Herald I was to have full control. That control was not given me ... There is some difference in our political beliefs. I have broader Republican views than [McCormick] has. I am for the same people as the colonel, but I am for some more people." McCormick also told her to choose between Garvin Tankersley and the Tribune Company. As a result, she resigned from the Times-Herald.[6] McCormick tried to run the paper himself, but lost money on the venture, and sold the Times-Herald to The Washington Post in 1954.[13][17] When he announced the sale, one of the paper's board members insisted that Tankersley be given a chance to purchase the paper, so McCormick gave her 48 hours to match the $10 million asking price. She could not raise the money do so. Upon the purchase of the Times-Herald, the Post consolidated its market position by discontinuing the rival paper.[20] Though estranged for many years, Bazy and McCormick reconciled prior to his death.[13]

After the sale, Tankersley continued to write a newspaper column,[1] but also began to raise Arabian horses as a full-time occupation.[14]

Horse breeding career

Tankersley is recorded as the breeder of over 2,800 registered Arabian foals in her lifetime,[3][8] making her "probably the world's most prolific Arabian horse breeder."[18] At age 19,[21] she purchased her first Arabian horse, a mare named Curfa,[b] using money from the sale of another horse she had ridden while at boarding school in Virginia.[2] She founded the Al-Marah Arabian Horse Farm when she first lived in Tucson, in 1941.[21] Tankersley stated that Al-Marah was Arabic for "a verdant garden oasis";,[9] Mark Miller said the name was selected by Carl Raswan.[23] The original Tucson property consisted of 40 acres (16 ha). Throughout her newspaper career, she moved the farm name with her, to Illinois from 1944 to 1949, and when she moved to Washington, DC, Tankersley set up Al-Marah in Maryland, where she lived from 1949 to 1975. Thereafter, she returned to Tucson permanently, establishing Al-Marah on a large property there.[9]

In a career as a horse breeder for over 70 years,[9] Tankersley emphasized athleticism and disposition in her Arabians. In 1947 she purchased a stallion named Indraff, for $10,000. Indraff was bred by Roger Selby of Ohio, and was a son of the Crabbet-bred stallion *Raffles. He became her foundation herd sire, and sired 254 purebred Arabians over his lifetime.[23][24][25] Tankersley's first foundation mare, Selfra, was also of Crabbet bloodlines.[26] By the time she left Illinois in 1949, she owned 45 Arabians.[11]

Tankersley was not the only member of the McCormick family to raise Arabians in Arizona. Cousin Harold "Fowler" McCormick, Jr. and his wife Anne "Fifi" McCormick, [c] founded the McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale in 1943. Anne McCormick began breeding horses, and in 1948 bought her first Arabian stallion, Mustafa,[27] a horse of Crabbet and Davenport lineage, from a Tucson area breeder.[28] She is considered the person who brought Arabian horse breeding to the Scottsdale area and was one of the founders of the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show,[29] now the largest Arabian horse show in the world.[30] Paralleling Bazy's efforts, McCormick imported three Arabians from the Crabbet Stud, and then in 1963, McCormick imported the stallion *Naborr from Poland via England. When she died in 1969, *Naborr sold for a then-record price of $150,000 at the McCormick estate sale.[31]

Maryland

Upon arrival in the Washington, DC area, Tankersley located Al-Marah Arabians in Montgomery County, at first outside of Bethesda, near Washington.[6] The Al-Marah property, in Potomac, consisted of 1,500 acres (610 ha), and for a time, the Tankersleys also raised cattle there.[32] The farm later moved to Barnesville, Maryland.[33] Al-Marah was not only a horse breeding facility; the Tankersleys also hosted a number of political and social events.[6] By 1957, Al-Marah was the largest Arabian horse farm in the United States. In that year, Lady Wentworth, owner of the Crabbet Arabian Stud died, and a number of horses were made available for sale.[33] Tankersley bought 32 horses, the largest importation of Crabbet bloodstock to the United States in history.[3] Lady Gladys Yule of the Hanstead Stud died within a few weeks of Lady Wentworth, and more top-quality Arabians bred in the UK were put on the market. Tankersley purchased 14 Hanstead horses, the largest group from that estate sold to a single buyer.[34] The arrival of the English horses was, in Tankersley's view, an opportunity to preserve the core bloodlines tracing back to the horses originally gathered by Abbas Pasha.[35]

Following these importations, Tankersley began to build her breeding program around two Crabbet sire lines, which she called the "Double R" cross. The first "R" stallion bloodline was that of *Raffles via his son Indraff, and the other "R" stallion line was that of Rissalix, a Crabbet-bred stallion owned by Hanstead,[34] sire of three Crabbet mares Tankersley imported.[3] The two stallion lines shared a common mare line to Rissla; she was the maternal granddam of Raffles and dam of Rissalix.[36] In 1958, Tankersley added to her Double R program when she leased and imported the Rissalix son *Count Dorsaz, a Hanstead-bred horse. She owned him outright by 1959.[34][37] She later added another Rissalix son from Hanstead, *Ranix.[34] In 1962, she imported another Crabbet-bred stallion, *Silver Vanity.[38] She used her knowledge of genetics to institute a program of selectively inbreeding horses of bloodlines she considered of excellent quality.[39] In her early years, she also looked for "golden crosses", such as breeding offspring of Indraff to progeny of the Maynesboro-bred stallion Gulastra.[26]

Tucson, Arizona

Tankersley missed Arizona and wanted to return. "I would read Arizona Highways and cry," she said.[18] The Tankersleys moved back to Tucson and settled there permanently in 1975.[9] The ranch property she purchased had been owned by Isabella Greenway, who had hosted Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt there. Tankersley, though identified as a Republican, displayed a photo of FDR sitting on the porch of the ranch.[40] She added new stallions to her herd with Dreamazon in the 1980s,[41] and a *Silver Vanity descendant, SDA Silver Legend, in 2001.[26] Later in the decade, continuing her pattern of seeking "golden crosses," she imported the stallion *Bremervale Andronicus from Australia, an outcross for her intensely Crabbet-based bloodlines. He became the 2006 National Champion Arabian Sport Horse, with the reserve champion AM Power Raid, a stallion from within her program.[39]

Ultimately Tankersley operated two facilities in Arizona, her Al-Marah Arabian Farm, a 110 acres (45 ha) facility,[9] and the Hat Ranch, located in William,[39] near Flagstaff.[3] The Hat Ranch was home to her young stock, allowing them to live free in an open range setting for two years before beginning training.[39] It also served as the location for an annual think tank meeting for leaders of the Arabian Horse Association.[42] The ranch also hosted the "Straw Bale Forums" where politicians, conservation leaders and academics could meet and discuss major issues.[18] In 2003, Tankersley was given the Arabian Breeder's Association Lifetime Breeder's Award.[43]

Apprenticeship program

In 1973, Tankersley created an apprenticeship program to train people both for work as employees at her ranch and for positions elsewhere in the horse industry. It grew into an intensive two-year course that covered all aspects of the horse industry,[3] provided participants college credit through Pima Community College,[39] and was licensed by the U.S. Department of Labor.[43] She also donated horses to an Arabian breeding program at Michigan State University.[43] Tankersley was noted throughout her career for her support of youth involvement with Arabian horses.[37]

Death and bequests

Tankersley died on February 5, 2013. She had Parkinson's disease.[6] As she aged, Tankersley had downsized her horse breeding operation from 350 horses to under 150 just prior to her death.[43] After she passed away, many of her remaining horses went to her son, Mark Miller,[23] who moved the Al-Marah Arabian farm name and the horse operation to his home base near Clermont, Florida with the help of Tankersley's longtime farm manager, Jerry Hamilton. Miller also runs an entertainment venue called Arabian Nights, in Kissimmee, Florida, near Disney World, where every night of the year he features a 90-minute dinner show performance that utilizes 50 Arabian horses and 20 people.[44] He had run Arabian Nights since 1988, using Al-Marah-bred horses.[35]

The Tucson Al-Marah Ranch, consisting of 85 acres (34 ha) with an estimated worth of $30 million, was donated to the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture as a working ranch.[3] The Hat Ranch had a conservation easement with rights to more than 1,500 acres (610 ha) given to the Grand Canyon Trust to prevent further development.[18] Jerry Hamilton will continue to manage the Hat Ranch for Miller as a home for young horses bred by Al-Marah.[44]

Legacy

Tankersley once stated, "You see, I come from that old-fashioned background of noblesse oblige: If you're born with money, you have an obligation to do good works for others."[21] She was also noted for a strong personality: "If she was in any position of leadership or power, she was dominant."[18]

Tankersley's politics shifted dramatically during her career. Noting her earlier strong affiliation with the Republican party and conservative politics, The Washington Post reported that in 2008 she voted for Barack Obama.[6] She also supported Democratic Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords.[18]

Most likely due to her love of Arizona, Tankersley became a strong environmentalist, donating to conservation, environmental, and aquaculture research.[18] She supported renewable energy, smart growth, water conservation and promoted reform of state land management.[3] She also helped Defenders of Wildlife preserve the Aravaipa Canyon. Carl Hodges, of the University of Arizona's Environmental Research Lab, stated, "she was as fine and intellectually competent an environmentalist as anybody I'd ever known."[18]

Her financial support also went to charities for disabled children, education, and assorted cultural activities.[18]


Tankersley was a consistent advocate of the Arabian breed as a performance horse. In addition to the show ring, she also tested her horses on the race track, and in endurance riding, where she sometimes rode her own horses.[37] Her horses won multiple national championships over the course of her career.[3] She was a major promoter of the Arabian Horse Association (AHA) Sport Horse Nationals, and her own horses also acquired many championships at that competition.[3]

Tankersley founded the Arabian Horse Owners Foundation (AHOF) in 1963 as a charity to fund the needs of the Arabian horse community. The most recent project of the foundation was to develop the Arabian section of the International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park; the Al-Marah Arabian Horse Galleries. Housed there are the collections of the AHOF and the Arabian Horse Trust. During the 2010 World Equestrian Games, the foundation sponsored the exhibit "Gift of the Desert: The Art, History and Culture of the Arabian Horse."[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Now the NewsTribune, serving LeSalle, Peru and Ottawa and still in the Miller family.[16]
  2. ^ Curfa was of straight Crabbet breeding and produced two foals while in Bazy's ownership[22]
  3. ^ Fowler was Bazy's second cousin, once removed and son of Harold Fowler McCormick, Sr. of International Harvester.

References

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  23. ^ a b c Miller, Mark (Spring 2013). "Al-Marah Arabians". Modern Arabian Horse. Arabian Horse Association: 5.
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  25. ^ Waiditschka, Gudrun (2013-02-06). "... And Ride Away Singing". In the Focus: Arabian Horses Online Magazine. ITF Online Magazine. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  26. ^ a b c Ahneman and Bavaria. p. 63
  27. ^ "Community History » McCormick Ranch Property Owners' Association". McCormick Ranch Property Owners Association. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
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  29. ^ "McCormick Ranch Turns 40". mccormickranchnews.com. 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  30. ^ "Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show". Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  31. ^ Edwards, p. 127
  32. ^ Ahneman and Bavaria, p. 64
  33. ^ a b Edwards, p. 128
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  41. ^ Ahneman and Bavaria, p. 66
  42. ^ Ahneman and Bavaria, p. 65
  43. ^ a b c d Ahneman and Bavaria. p. 67
  44. ^ a b McCall, Elizabeth (May 5, 2013). "Mark Miller Jumps in the Saddle with Changing of the Guard at Al-Marah". ArabHorse. The Arabian Horse Network. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
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