Sun's Smokey Midnight
(from the Heritage Highlights)

The Faulkner Brothers of Lincoln County in southern Middle Tennessee were among the early breeders to register their stock with the TWHBAA. Son and nephew Jab Faulkner helped with the horses as a youngster and continued the family tradition of excellent using Walking Horses and quality jack stock when he grew up. After many years, however, he and his wife decided to retire from horse breeding in the early nineties. One of the area breeders eager to purchase Jab’s proven family bloodlines was Danny Taylor.
Danny took one of the Jab Faulkner mares named Lucy Sue’s Angel to the court of the old Midnight Sun stallion, Sun’s Midnight Mark. Mark stood in Readyville, Tennessee, at the farm of his breeder and lifetime owner, Horton Elrod.
The foal that arrived in the spring of 1993 inherited the black coat of his sire but his dam’s sabino markings, passed down over the generations from the first of the Faulkner mares.
He was a large colt, quiet and friendly. Sun’s Smokey Midnight grew up in the hills of Franklin County. He was started under saddle, where he displayed very correct walking gaits without the irritating paciness bred into many of the more modern show lines. Danny made the decision to retain him as the herd sire for Elk River Farm. Time has proven this to be a wise decision, as Smokey has proven to be not only a sire of fine riding and flatshod show stock, but a sire of stallions as well. His pedigree offers the popular “royal cross” of a Midnight Sun stallion with a Merry Boy bred mare, while also featuring the older Wilson’s Allen lines developed by the Faulkner Brothers on the bottom of his dam’s pedigree.